WEG INDUSTRIAS v. COMPANIA DE SEGUROS

No. 3D05-1801.

937 So.2d 248 (2006)

WEG INDUSTRIAS, S.A., etc., et al., Appellants, v. COMPANIA DE SEGUROS GENERALES GRANAI, etc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 6, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Becker & Poliakoff and Mitchell W. Mandler and Manjit S. Gill, Fort Lauderdale; Holland & Knight and Rodolfo Sorondo, Jr., Miami, and Lenore C. Smith, for appellants.

Renee Adwar, for appellee.

Before SHEPHERD, SUAREZ, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.


SHEPHERD, J.

This is an appeal from a non-final order denying a motion to dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds. As is not uncommon in our courts, the underlying transaction and most significantly affected litigants are all housed offshore. We accordingly hold, as we did recently in our en banc decision in Tananta v. Cruise Ships Catering & Servs. Int'l N.V., 909 So.2d 874, 886 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004), that the resolution...

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