Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2011

United Automobile Insurance Co. v. Miami Dade County MRI Corp.

United Automobile Insurance Co. v. Miami Dade County MRI Corp.
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided March 9, 2011 · Emas, Salter, Wells
56 So. 3d 121; 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 3180 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

United Automobile Insurance Co. v. Miami Dade County MRI Corp.

Opinion of the Court

WELLS, Judge.

Affirmed. § 86.011, Fla. Stat. (2010) (“The circuit and county courts have jurisdiction within their respective jurisdictional amounts to declare rights.... ”); United Auto. Ins. Co. v. Kendall S. Med. Ctr., 54 So.3d 548 (Fla. 8d DCA 2011) (“[T]he Miami-Dade Circuit Court has jurisdiction of a declaratory action only if the amount in controversy exceeds $15,000 and only the county court has jurisdiction of any amount in controversy less than $15,000.”); Canonico v. Devine, 130 So.2d 319, 321 (Fla. 3d DCA 1961) (“Separate and unrelated demands cannot be joined to give jurisdiction to a court which does not have jurisdiction of any one of the claims because each is below the amount required to give jurisdiction to the court.”); see also § 627.428, Fla. Stat. (2010) (“Upon the rendition of a judgment or decree ... against an insurer and in favor of any named or omnibus insured ... the trial court ... shall adjudge ... in favor of the insured ... a reasonable sum as fees.”); Dawson v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 233 So.2d 860, 861 (Fla. 3d DCA 1970) (insured entitled to a fee award upon dismissal of an action brought by insurer even though the same issue was then pending in an administrative proceeding).

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