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GEICO GEN. INS. v. VIRTUAL IMAGING SERVICES

No. SC12-905.

141 So.3d 147 (2013)

GEICO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. VIRTUAL IMAGING SERVICES, INC., etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 3, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank A. Zacherl , Suzanne Youmans Labrit , and Jerel C. Dawson of Shutts & Bowen LLP, Tampa, FL, for Petitioner.

Harley N. Kane of The Greenspan Law Firm, P.A., Boca Raton, FL, and John Berank of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent Cynthia S. Tunnicliff and Gerald Don Nelson Bryant IV of Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.

Nancy M. Wallace of Akerman Seterfitt, Tallahassee, FL, and Marcy Levine Aldrich and Nancy A. Copperthwaite of Akerman Seterfitt, Miami, FL, for Amici Curiae Personal Insurance Federation of Florida and National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies.

Raoul G. Cantero , T. Neal McAliley , and Jesse L. Green of White & Case LLP, Miami, FL, for Amici Curiae The American Insurance Association and The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.

Edward H. Zebersky of Zebersky Payne, LLP, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Gary M. Farmer, Sr. of Farmer Jaffe Weissing Edwards Fistos & Lehrman, P.L., Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Amicus Curiae Florida Medical Association.

Lawrence M. Kopelman of Kopelman & Blankman, P.A., for Amicus Curiae Floridians For Fair Insurance, Inc.

Robert N. Pelier of Law Offices of Robert N. Pelier, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, and G. Bart Billbrough of Billbrough & Marks, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, for Amicus Curiae Gables Insurance Recovery, Inc.

David M. Caldevilla and Michael R. Bray of de la Parte & Gilbert, P.A., Tampa, FL, and Craig E. Rothburd of Craig E. Rothburd, P.A., Tampa, FL, and Scott R. Jeeves of The Jeeves Law Group, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL, and Lorca J. Divale of The Divale Law Group, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL.

QUINCE, LEWIS, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.

PARIENTE, J.

The issue presented to the Court is whether the Medicare fee schedules set forth in section 627.736(5)(a), Florida Statutes (2008), authorized an insurer to limit reimbursements for medical services rendered to an insured without giving notice in the insurance policy of the insurer's election to use the Medicare fee schedules as the basis for calculating reimbursements.1 In Geico General Insurance Co. v. Virtual Imaging...

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