Mulligan v. State Farm Florida Insurance Co.

Appellant challenges a final order dismissing her amended complaint against State Farm, her insurance company, with prejudice. The trial court granted State Farm’s motion to dismiss, which argued that the statute of limitations had expired on the action. Appellant had filed no written response to the motion and did not appear at the hearing. Although, in its order dismissing the complaint, the trial court noted that appellant’s attorney did not appear at the hearing, it did not enter a dismissal because of the non-appearance.1 It granted the motion with preju*853dice. Therefore, we conclude that…