American Suzuki Motor Corp. v. Friese

Defendants in a product liability case appeal an order denying their motion to transfer venue from Broward County to Gilchrist County, where the accident occurred. Although the parties both contend that defendants’ motion should be analyzed under the procedure adopted by our supreme court in Kinney System, Inc. v. Continental Insurance Co., 674 So.2d 86 (Fla.1996), Kinney does not apply to this motion, which seeks to transfer, based on forum non conveniens, from one county in Florida to another. We affirm.

Kinney, as the parties recognize, involved the issue of whether a case was properly…