Resia Jean v. Praetorian Insurance Company

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT RESIA JEAN, Appellant, v. PRAETORIAN INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee. No. 4D19-1370 [August 19, 2020] Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; William W. Haury, Jr., Judge; L.T. Case No. CACE 17- 002376. Melissa A. Giasi and Erin M. Berger of Giasi Law, P.A., Tampa, for appellant. Scott P. Yount, Joseph W. Gelli, Robert T. Vorhoff and George M. Duncan of Garrison, Yount, Forte & Mulcahy, L.L.C., Tampa, for appellee. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Found. Health v. Westside EKG Assoc., 944 So. 2d 188, 194-95 (Fla. 2006) (to enforce a contract as a third-party beneficiary, the contracting parties must have clearly or manifestly intended to primarily and directly benefit the third-party) (citations omitted); see also Florida Windstorm Underwriting v. Gajwani, 934 So. 2d 501, 507 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005) (in the absence of legislative directive “in the language of the statute, it is not our function to extend coverage for wind-driven rain damages to those whose insurance policies exclude such coverage.”) (citation omitted) (emphasis added). GROSS, ARTAU, JJ., and SCHOSBERG FEUER, SAMANTHA, Associate Judge, concur. * * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.