PRIDE CLEAN RESTORATION INC v. CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION (2021)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

PRIDE CLEAN RESTORATION, INC., a/a/o Virginia Benitez, Appellant, v. CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION, Appellee.

No. 3D21-113

Decided: May 12, 2021

Before EMAS, C.J., and SCALES and MILLER, JJ.

Font & Nelson, PLLC, and Jose P. Font and Bryan T. Fischer (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant. Lydecker | Diaz, and Michelle Diverio and Alejandro Sanchez Parraga, for appellee.

Affirmed. See Washington Nat'l Ins. Corp. v. Ruderman, 117 So. 3d 943, 948 (Fla. 2013) (holding: “Where the language in an insurance contract is plain and unambiguous, a court must interpret the policy in accordance with the plain meaning so as to give effect to the policy as written. See State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Menendez, 70 So. 3d 566, 569–70 (Fla. 2011). In construing insurance contracts, ‘courts should read each policy as a whole, endeavoring to give every provision its full meaning and operative effect.’ U.S. Fire Ins. Co. v. J.S.U.B., Inc., 979 So. 2d 871, 877 (Fla. 2007).”) (quotations and citations omitted).

PER CURIAM.

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