COOKE v. NATIONWIDE MUT. FIRE INS. CO.

No. 1D08-3602.

14 So.3d 1192 (2009)

Barbara COOKE, Appellant, v. NATIONWIDE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign insurance corporation; United Parcel Service, Inc.; Hector L. Ramirez, and Carrera Transport, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied July 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marian S. Lee and Mark A. Avera of Avera & Smith, LLP, Gainesville, for Appellant.

Carl B. Schwait and Elizabeth M. Collins of Dell Graham, P.A., Gainesville, for Appellee Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company; and Melisa L. Bodnar of Law Office of Glenn G. Gomer, Tampa, for Appellees United Parcel Service, Inc. and Hector L. Ramirez.


KAHN, J.

Appellant Barbara Cooke seeks review of an adverse final summary judgment dismissing a suit arising from the death of her husband, Gary Cooke. The claim here involves multiple vehicles and two accidents that occurred on a stretch of southbound Interstate 75 in Alachua County. We reverse because the negligence, if any, of appellant's decedent was not an intervening and superseding cause acting to break the chain of causation, which appellant claims was initiated...

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