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PABLO A. ANTONELLI, Appellant, v. UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, PATRICK LORZEILLE, OSVALDO M. DE DOMINGO, PAOLA FABRIZO, ZULEIMA JOSEFA DE HAROS CUADROS, and LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, etc., Appellees.

39 Fla. L. Weekly D61b
133 So. 3d 1007

Insurance — Commercial vehicle — Coverage — Trial court properly entered summary judgment finding no coverage for bodily injury claims arising out of accident pursuant to named driver exclusion provision of policy where commercial vehicle was being driven by a person who had not been added as a driver after the policy was obtained — Trial court erred in finding no personal injury protection or property damage coverage, because those coverages are statutorily mandated

PABLO A. ANTONELLI, Appellant, v. UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, PATRICK LORZEILLE, OSVALDO M. DE DOMINGO, PAOLA FABRIZO, ZULEIMA JOSEFA DE HAROS CUADROS, and LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, etc., Appellees. 3rd District. Case No. 3D12-1656. L.T. Case No. 11-5415. January 2, 2014. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Ellen L. Leesfield, Judge. Counsel: Arthur J. Morburger, for appellant. Michael J. Neimand, for United Automobile Insurance Company.

(Before SUAREZ, LAGOA and EMAS, JJ.)

(SUAREZ, J.) Pablo Antonelli seeks to reverse a final summary judgment in favor of United Automobile Insurance Company (“UA”). We affirm in part and reverse in part.

We affirm that part of the final judgment finding no coverage for any bodily injury claims arising out of the accident in question pursuant to the unambiguous named driver exclusion provision agreed to by Mr. Antonelli at the time he obtained the commercial vehicle insurance policy. At the time of the accident, the commercial vehicle was being driven by Osvaldo M. De Domingo, who had not been added as a driver after the policy was obtained. Therefore, pursuant to the named driver exclusion, the policy does not provide bodily injury coverage for any claims due to the accident. We reverse, however, that portion of the final judgment finding no personal injury protection (“PIP”) or property damage coverage under the policy at issue because, as UA correctly points out, those particular coverages are statutorily mandated. § 627.736, Fla. Stat. (2013); § 324.022, Fla. Stat. (2013); see United Auto. Ins. Co. v. Reece, 4 So. 3d 80 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009).

Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

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