MICHELIN TIRE CORP. v. MILBROOK

Nos. 3D00-109, 3D99-2615.

799 So.2d 248 (2001)

MICHELIN TIRE CORPORATION. (n/k/a Michelin North America, Inc.), Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Lou Hazel MILBROOK, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Marcilla Luzette Glasper, etc., et al., Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holland & Knight and Daniel S. Pearson and Lenore C. Smith and Lucinda A. Hofmann and Linda Collins Hertz, Miami, for appellant.

Matthew & Gorman, Tallahassee; Jay Halpern, Miami; Lauri Waldman Ross, Miami, for appellee.

Before GODERICH and SORONDO, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.


PER CURIAM.

In these consolidated cases, a tire manufacturer appeals a final judgment entered in an estate's favor for the death of two van passengers killed as a result of a tire blow out, as well as the award of attorney's fees which followed.

In 1992, Lou Milbrook was driving from Northern Florida to Miami when one of her tires blew out. Milbrook's mother-in-law, Lessie Jackson, and step-daughter, Marcilla Glasper, were killed. In 1994, Milbrook, as personal...

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