Sunshine State Insurance Co. v. Rawlins

Sunshine State Insurance Company appeals the trial court’s Order on Plaintiffs Motion to Compel Appraisal and to Abate the Action. We affirm because the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed the appraisal to go forward while preserving all of Sunshine States’s rights to contest coverage as a matter of law.

In Johnson v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, 828 So.2d 1021, 1025-26 (Fla.2002), the Florida Supreme Court adopted this Court’s holding in Gonzalez v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, 805 So.2d 814 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000). In Johnson, the Court divided the issue of…