District Court of Appeal of Florida

In a case brought by a retailer involving alleged insurance bid rigging, a petition for writ of certiorari challenging the grant of a stay of the matter pending certification of a class action in New Jersey federal court is granted and the matter remanded for reconsideration where the trial court ruled on the erroneous assumption that its ruling was required by a circuit court case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2006
• Published 08/16/2006

Judges

• GROSS, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jane Kreusler-Walsh of Jane Kreusler-Walsh, P.A., West Palm Beach, Sidney A. Stubbs, and Joanne M. O'Connor of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., West Palm Beach, Edmund M. Kneisel, James F. Bogan, III, and Svetlana Gans of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sylvia H. Walbolt, Steven E. Brodie, and Dean A. Morande of Carlton Fields, P.A., Miami, for respondents American International Group, Inc., American International Specialty Lines Insurance Company, American Home Assurance Company, and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., Francis A. Anania and Ana M. Alexander of Anania, Bandklayder, Blackwell, Baumgarten, Torricella & Stein, Miami, for respondents Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., Marsh, Inc., and Marsh USA, Inc., Peter W. Homer and Gregory J. Trask of Homer Bonner, Miami, for respondents The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc., Discover Reinsurance Company, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America., William R. Scherer and Susan H. Aprill of Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Fort Lauderdale, for respondents ACE American Insurance Company., Christopher E. Knight of Fowler White Burnett, P.A., Miami, for respondents Zurich American Insurance Company and American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Company.