SEA TOW SERVICES INTERNATIONAL, INC., APPELLANT,

v.

SEA TOW SERVICES OF MIAMI, INC., MARK SAFRANEK, KEVIN RAGER, AND SAM NOE, APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By

• Sams v. Sheriff Stephen Oelrich, 717 So. 2d 1044 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998)
  …3 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995); (2) when the governmental entity has a duty to the injured party created by statute, see Department of Health and Rehabilitative Servs. v. Yamuni, 529 So. 2d 258, 261-262 (Fla.1988); see, e.g., [*1049] Simpson v. City of Miami, 700 So. 2d 87, 88 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997); and (3) when the governmental actor or entity has actually set in motion the conduct which leads to the injury of the third party, such as initiating a high-speed chase, see, e.g., City of Pinellas Park v. Brown, 604 So. 2d 1…
• City OF Treasure Island v. Provident Mgmt. Corp. & Laurence N. Belair, 738 So. 2d 357 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999)
  …junction is perhaps best explained as a special duty created when the government establishes a special relationship with a person by bringing suit against that person. See Everton v. Willard, 468 So. 2d 936, 938 (Fla.1985); Simpson v. City of Miami, 700 So. 2d 87 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997); Hartley v. Floyd, 512 So. 2d 1022 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987). Although we conclude that the claim is in the nature of strict liability, we also conclude that wrongful injunction is a “wrongful act” for purposes of the waiver in section…
• State v. Pollack, 745 So. 2d 446 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999)
  …In support of their argument, ap-pellees rely on Cook v. Sheriff of Collier County, 573 So. 2d 406 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Hoover v. Polk County Sheriff’s Dept., 611 So. 2d 1331 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993); and this Court’s decision in Simpson v. City of Miami, 700 So. 2d 87 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997). [*449] We agree with the FHP that the state has no sovereign liability as a matter of established law and find the cases relied upon by the appellees to be distinguishable. First of all, in Cook, plaintiff brought a wrongful dea…

Authorities Cited

• McHALE v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., 409 So. 2d 238 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982)
• Merrill Stevens DRY Dock Co. v. Nicholas, 470 So. 2d 32 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985)
• Ocean Elec. Co. v. Hughes Labs., Inc., 636 So. 2d 112 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994)