FLORIDA DEP'T OF HIGHWAY SAFETY v. FORTES

Nos. 3D22-483 & 3D22-488.

354 So.3d 637 (2023)

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES, et al., Appellants, v. Odalys FORTES, etc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Opinion Filed January 25, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geraldine Bonzon-Keenan , Miami-Dade County Attorney, and Richard Schevis , Assistant County Attorney, for appellant Miami-Dade County; Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A., and James M. Fishman , for appellant Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

Armand & Dieguez, P.A., and Arturo A. Armand and Manuel A. Dieguez ; Raposo & Lukacs, PLLC, and John C. Lukacs, Jr. , and Jose A. Raposo, Jr. , for appellee.

Before LOGUE, SCALES and HENDON, JJ.


Appellants Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and Miami-Dade County appeal a February 21, 2022 non-final order denying appellants' motions seeking summary judgment on the issue of whether they are sovereignly immune from the wrongful death action brought by appellee Odalys Fortes, as personal representative of the Estate...

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