District Court of Appeal of Florida

Judgment for a lessor of construction equipment on its third party complaint against an employer-lessee in an underlying personal injury suit against an employer is reversed where the lease for construction equipment lacked the clear and unequivocal language required to create an indemnity obligation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/22/2006
• Published 03/22/2006

Judges

• GROSS, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael A. Mullen, Maximiliano Zayas, and Anne C. Sullivan of Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli, Esco & DiMatteo, Coral Gables, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bonita K. Brown of Fowler White Boggs Banker, P.A., Tampa, and Francis B. Geary, Jr. of Fowler White Boggs Banker, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee Mechanic Masters, Inc.