Essex Ins. Co. v. Zota

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that statutory agency arises “when the insurer characterizes the broker as a 13 representative of the insurer, or when insurers contemplate broker solicitation of their products using the insurer’s application and sales brochures”
• “It is a well-settled rule of Florida statutory construction that ‘[s]tatutes in derogation of the common law . . . will not be interpreted to displace the common law further than is clearly necessary.’ ”
• “It is a well-settled rule of Florida statutory construction that [s]tatutes in derogation of the common law . . . will not be 7 interpreted to displace the common law further than is clearly necessary.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).