United States Eleventh Circuit

In an negligence action arising from a train accident, the district court properly applied the Florida comparative fault statute and properly concluded that an indemnity provision in the parties' Private Road Grade Crossing Agreement obligated defendants to indemnify plaintiffs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/01/2005
• Published 09/01/2005

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG , Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Ramer Karcher, Underwood, Karcher, Karcher & Anderson, PA, Miami, FL, William L. Eagan, Arnold, Matheny & Eagan, P.A., Orlando, FL, James M. Warden, Shawnee Mission, KS, Richards H. Ford, Michael R. D'Lugo, Wicker, Smith, Tutan, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford, PA, J. Charles Ingram, Orlando, FL, for Appellants., Thomas E. Warner, Tallahassee, FL, for Amicus Curiae, State of Florida.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sutton G. Hilyard, Jr., Hilyard, Bogan, Palmer & Lockeby, P.A., Michael J. Roper, Ernest H. Kohlmyer, III, Bell, Leeper & Roper, P.A., Alton G. Pitts, Alton G. Pitts, P.A., Thomas M. Burke, Holland & Knight, LLP, John W. Bussey, III, Johnson & Bussey, Bobby G. Palmer, Jr., Orlando, FL, Daniel John Fleming, Melkus & Fleming, Tampa, FL, L. Lee Williams, Jr., Williams & Gautier, PA, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellees.