Legal Opinion
Castle Beach Club Condominium, Inc. v. Citizens Property Insurance Corp.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided August 1, 2012No. 3D11-160PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtRothenberg, J.
This is a non-final appeal of the trial court’s order transferring venue from Miami-Dade County to Leon County. Castle Beach Club Condominium, Inc. (“Castle Beach”) sued Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (“Citizens”), a state entity, for breach of contract and an appraisal in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. The trial court transferred the case to Leon County based upon Citizens’ assertion of Florida’s common law home venue privilege. We affirm the trial court’s order because: (1) Citizens is a state entity protected by the home venue privilege; (2) Castle Beach concedes that no exception to the…
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