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

No. SC04-2313.

945 So.2d 1160 (2006)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Margaret ROACH, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 14, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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.

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.

Charles W. Hall and Mark D. Tinker of Fowler, White, Boggs and Banker, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL, for Amicus Curiae.


CANTERO, J.

This case requires us to decide which state's law applies when an automobile insurance contract is executed in another state, where the insureds permanently reside, but the insureds spend a substantial amount of time in Florida and the accident occurs here. In Roach v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 892 So.2d 1107, 1112 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004), the district court of appeal held that Florida's public policy...

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