Supreme Court of Florida

Where residents of another state who reside in Florida for several months of the year execute an insurance contract in that state, they may not invoke Florida's public policy exception to the rule of lex loci contractus to invalidate an exclusionary clause in the policy, because the public policy exception to the lex loci rule may only be invoked to protect permanent Florida residents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2006
• Published 12/14/2006

Judges

• CANTERO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth K. Russo of Russo Appellate Firm, P.A., Miami, FL and Thomas F. Neal and Stephen J. Jacobs of deBeaubien, Knight, Simmons, Mantzaris and Neal, LLP, Orlando, FL, for Petitioner., Charles W. Hall and Mark D. Tinker of Fowler, White, Boggs and Banker, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami, FL and Weldon Earl Brennan of Wagner, Vaughan and McLaughlin, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Respondent.