STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. OLSEN

No. 59639.

406 So.2d 1109 (1981)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, etc., Petitioner, v. Helen Powell OLSEN, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Kane of Driscoll, Langston, Layton & Kane, Orlando, for petitioner.

Bruce Jacobus, Indialantic, and Edna L. Caruso, West Palm Beach, for respondent.

Larry Klein, West Palm Beach, for The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.

J. Craig Corbett and Ronald M. Owen of Parker, Johnson, Owen & McGuire, Orlando, for Florida Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae.


ADKINS, Justice.

This cause is here on petition for writ of certiorari supported by certificate of the Fifth District Court of Appeal that its decision reported in 386 So.2d 600 is one which involves a question of great public importance. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. (1972).

The present suit arose from an automobile accident occurring in Illinois in 1976 between an uninsured Illinois motorist...

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