green
Positive treatment
9.3 score
Top citers, strongest first. 2 distinct citers.
discussed
Cited as authority (rule)
De Leon v. GREAT AMERICAN ASSUR. CO.
(2×)
Co. v. Lecks, 122 Fla. 127 , 165 So. 50, 54 (1935); Underwood Anderson & Associates, Inc. v. Lillo's Italian Restaurant, Inc. 36 So.3d 885, 888 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010) ("[T]he courts have often stated to be the purpose of the attorney's fee statute, which is to encourage insurance companies to pay when they are presented with valid claims and, failing that, to compensate insureds that are forced to litigate their contracts with improperly recalcitrant insurance companies.").
discussed
Cited "see, e.g."
Omega Insurance Co. v. Johnson
Co. of N. Am. v. Lexow, 602 So.2d 528, 531 (Fla.1992); see also Underwood Anderson & Assocs., Inc. v. Lillo’s Italian Rest., Inc., 36 So.3d 885, 888 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010) (holding that the statute encourages the payment of valid claims and, “failing that, to compensate insureds that are forced to litigate their contracts with improperly recalcitrant insurance companies”); Travelers Indem.
Ronald G. SMITH, Appellant,
v.
SCHWOB BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED/AMERISURE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellees
v.
SCHWOB BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED/AMERISURE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellees
1D10-0065.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Jun 4, 2010.
Jonathan B. Israel of Harris, Guidi, Ros-ner, Dunlap and Rudolph, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellant., Michael C. Crumpler of Law Offices of Michael C. Crumpler, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellees.
Kahn, Rowe, Marstiller.
Published
Upon review of Appellant’s untimely response to this court’s March 30, 2010, order, we DISMISS this appeal. See Fla. R.App. P. 9.410.