· 2/10/2000
Young v. Progressive Southeastern Ins. Co.
Citations
- 753 So. 2d 80
- 25 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 120
- 2000 Fla. LEXIS 86
- 2000 WL 144188
How courts have described this case
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- determining that a person or entity who 3 is a “self-insurer” is not a “liability insurer,” and concluding that Florida's uninsured motorist statute treats a motorist who is self-insured as an uninsured motorist
- using this “principle of statutory construction” to show that “[b]y failing to permit self-insured mo- torist policy exclusions in the list of authorized exclusions, the Leg- islature has . . . indicated its intent . . . not to permit self-insured motorist policy exclusions”
- \[S]ection 627.727(9) . . . provides a list of statutorily permissible policy exclusions to uninsured motorist coverage.\
- “Under the principle of statutory construction, expressio unius est exclusio alterius, the mention of one thing implies the exclusion of another.” (citation omitted)
- “The critical question in determining whether a motorist is uninsured or underinsured is whether the tortfeasor possesses insurance that will make the injured party whole.”
- “[T]he mention of one thing implies right to immediate monetary relief; b. the rights or obligations of a party regarding child custody or time-sharing under a parenting plan; or c. that a marital agreement is invalid in its entirety”
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