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AMERICAN NAT. TITLE v. GUARANTEE TITLE

No. 98-2688.

748 So.2d 1054 (1999)

AMERICAN NATIONAL TITLE & ECROW OF FLORIDA, INC. and Barbara Rush, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. The GUARANTEE TITLE & TRUST COMPANY, an Ohio corporation, T.A. Title Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, American Pioneer Title Insurance Company, a Florida corporation, Keith Mack Lewis Cohen & Lumpkin, attorneys at law, Robert Cohen, Esquire, Jeffrey Shapiro, Esquire, Larry A. Rothenberg, Equity Title Company/Southeast, Thomas H. Mongan, and J. William Cotter, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Hargrove, W. Kent Brown and Moises Melendez of Heinrich Gordon Hargrove Weihe & James, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Robert G. Menzies of Roetzel & Andress, Naples, for Appellee/Cross-Appellants The Guarantee Title and Trust Company and Thomas H. Mongan.

John H. Pelzer of Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A. Fort Lauderdale, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants T.A. Title Insurance Company and J. William Cotter.

Kenneth R. Drake of Peters Robertson DeMahy Parsons Mowers Passaro & Drake, P.A., Miami, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant Larry A. Rothenberg.

Roderick F. Coleman of Coleman & Associates, P.A., Coral Gables, for Appellees/ Cross-Appellants Keith Mack Lewis Cohen & Lumpkin, Jeffrey Shapiro, Esquire and Robert Cohen, Esquire.

WARNER, C.J.

The trial court entered summary judgment in favor of appellees, a law firm, in this action for abuse of process on the ground of absolute immunity. We affirm on the authority of Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, P.A. v. United States Fire Insurance Co., 639 So.2d 606 (Fla.1994).

The Guarantee Title & Trust Company, an underwriter of title insurance, sued appellant American...

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