CONTINENTAL CAS. CO. v. CURL

No. 98-821.

721 So.2d 431 (1998)

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Julie Wood CURL and Lynn Wood Griner, as Co-Executors of the Estate of Louise Stanley, deceased, and on behalf of themselves and any other person entitled to recover herein; Danny Smallwood, as Executor of the Estate of Ruth Wolfe, deceased, and on behalf of E. Judson Wolfe and L. Wilson Wolfe, and any other person entitled to recover herein; Rebecca G. Weemhoff, as personal representative of the Estate of Elizabeth Benfield Gabriel, deceased, on behalf of Rebecca G. Weemhoff, Ann G. Ailsworth, Robert C. Weemhoff, Richard West Weemhoff, Kimberly Alyce Weemhoff, Julie Elizabeth Ailsworth, Jonathan David Ailsworth, Harry Benfield, Sarah Benfield Wright, and Robert Benfield; Valujet Airlines and Valujet Airlines, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 2, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rawlings Associates and Jervis C. Mobley, Jr., Jacksonville, for Appellant.

Anania, Bandklayder Blackwell & Baumgarten and Douglas H. Stein, Miami; Wicker, Smith, Tutan, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham, Lane & Ford and Shelley H. Leinicke, Fort Lauderdale, for Appellee ValuJet Airlines, Inc.

Speiser Krause and Leigh J. Ballen, Gerard R. Lear and Daniel D. Barks, Arlington, VA; Campbell, Malone, and Joseph J. Slama, Fort Lauderdale, for Appellees Julie Wood Curl, et al.

Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin and Joel D. Eaton, Miami, for Plaintiffs' Steering Committee.

Before COPE, GREEN and SORONDO, JJ.


COPE, Judge.

Continental Casualty Co. ("Continental") appeals an order denying its motion to intervene in three pending wrongful death actions. We affirm.

Continental provided travel accident insurance to passengers on ValuJet Flight 592, which crashed in the Everglades on May 11, 1996. The insurance policy provided that Continental would pay a death benefit of $200,000 for the loss of an insured's life. After the crash, Continental paid death benefits on...

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