Cooke v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance

Appellant Barbara Cooke seeks review of an adverse final summary judgment dismissing a suit arising from the death of her husband, Gary Cooke. The claim here involves multiple vehicles and two accidents that occurred on a stretch of southbound Interstate 75 in Alachua County. We reverse because the negligence, if any, of appellant’s decedent was not an intervening and superseding cause acting to break the chain of causation, which appellant claims was initiated by the negligence of one or more of the appellees.

BACKGROUND

Gary Cooke died when his sport utility vehicle collided with the back of…