FORD MOTOR CO. v. HALL-EDWARDS

No. 3D08-3220.

21 So.3d 99 (2009)

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Joan HALL-EDWARDS, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lance Crossman Hall, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 21, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton Fields, and Wendy F. Lumish and Cristina Alonso, Miami, for petitioner.

Denney & Barrett, and Richard L. Denney, Oklahoma; Gustavo Gutierrez; Kaster & Lynch, and Bruce Kaster, Ocala; Alters, Boldt, Brown, Rash & Culmo, and Kimberly L. Boldt, Boca Raton, for respondents.

Before COPE, LAGOA, and SALTER, JJ.


SALTER, J.

Ford Motor Company seeks a writ of certiorari quashing an interlocutory circuit court "Order Determining Public Hazard Pursuant to Florida Statute § 69.081." The respondent, plaintiff below, sued Ford following the death of her son in 1997. Her son was a passenger in a 1996 Ford Explorer in a "rollover" traffic accident.

We grant the petition and quash the order because (1) the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law and...

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