PROGRESSIVE EXPRESS INSURANCE COMPANY v. BELIDOR (2019)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

PROGRESSIVE EXPRESS INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Philip C. BELIDOR and Lecrystal Jade Clay, Appellees.

No. 4D18-3372

Decided: August 07, 2019

Nancy A. Copperthwaite and Marcy Levine Aldrich of Akerman LLP, Miami, and Tracy T. Segal of Akerman LLP, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Kenneth D. Cooper, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Philip C. Belidor.

Affirmed. See R.C. Storage One, Inc. v. Strand Realty, Inc., 714 So. 2d 634, 635 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998) (noting that “[t]he plaintiff's venue choice is presumptively correct, and a defendant bears the burden to prove that a trial in the county in which the action was filed would work a substantial inconvenience to it, and to witnesses” and affirming a venue determination where the defendant's “affidavits failed to disclose any information as to the necessity, relevance or significance of the evidence to be presented by these witnesses”).

Per Curiam.

Taylor, Ciklin and Forst, JJ., concur.

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