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I am a legal nurse consulting student in florida. I am curretly studying Civil Litigation, Torts, and Administrative Law. I am trying to locate a copy of the statute of limitations for personal injury cases in Florida. All of the web sites that I use bring me to
'Online Sunshine' where I am not having any luck. Can you point me in the right direction...if you're feeling especially helpful today, you could just give me the number of the statute :)








 


I assume you have access to a law library. The statute of limitations for PIP in FL is 5 years. It is not found in the PIP statute (FS 627.736). It comes from case law. You need to sheperdise two cases that conflict on when the date begins to run: Fladd v. Fortune Ins. Co., 530 So.2d 388; and Levy v. Travelers and Aetna, 580 So.2d 190. In Fladd the court held that the statute of limitations for a PIP claim begins to run on the date of the accident. In Levy the court held that it commences upon a breach of the policy contract rather than on the date of the accident. You need to find out if the conflict was resolved since the last time I checked on this. The decisions were from 2 different DCA's.

 

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