SCI FUNERAL SERVICES OF FLORIDA v. MUñOZ

No. 3D14-1240.

146 So.3d 1273 (2014)

SCI FUNERAL SERVICES OF FLORIDA, INC., Petitioner, v. Raul MUÑOZ, etc., et al., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 17, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gray Robinson and Ted C. Craig , Miami, for petitioner.

Billbrough & Marks and Geoffrey B. Marks , Coral Gables, for respondents.

Before SHEPHERD, C.J., and SUAREZ and SALTER, JJ.


SALTER, J.

SCI Funeral Services of Florida, Inc. ("SCI"), seeks a writ of certiorari quashing a circuit court order allowing the respondents to assert a claim for punitive damages. We grant the petition.

The proposed third amended complaint alleged the following facts. The respondents, plaintiffs below, are the parents of Yetsiyel Muñoz Ceballos, deceased. One of Mr. Ceballos's parents entered into a contract with a Miami funeral home (Auxiliadora Funeraria...

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