18 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 109a
Online Reference: FLWSUPP 1801LAND
Insurance — Attorney’s fees — Discovery — Time sheets of attorneys, paralegals, assistants or secretaries
EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, LLP, as assignee of Jane Landenberger, Plaintiff, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant. County Court, 18th Judicial Circuit in and for Seminole County. Case No. 2010-SC-893. October 4, 2010. Donald L. Marblestone, Judge. Counsel: Mark A. Cederberg, Bradford Cederberg, P.A., Orlando. Kimberly D. Webb, Orlando.
ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO COMPEL RESPONSES/BETTER RESPONSES TO PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST TO PRODUCE REGARDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS
THIS CAUSE, having come before the Court on September 22, 2010 on Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Responses/Better Responses to Plaintiff’s Request to Produce Regarding Attorneys’ Fees and Costs and this Court having heard argument of counsel and being otherwise fully advised in the premises rules as follows:
It is ORDERED AND ADJUDGED:
1. Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel “[a]ny and all attorney, paralegal, assistant and/or secretary time sheets related to this case” from the Defendant in this matter is GRANTED.
2. The Defendant may redact any privileged information contained within the time sheets and may redact any information regarding hourly rate charged by counsel for the Defendant; however, as stated at the hearing, if the Defendant is going to challenge any line item in Plaintiff’s counsel’s time sheets for reasonableness of time, the Defendant may not redact information describing the corresponding task or activity performed by defense counsel. The Defendant’s time records shall disclose all dates, description of tasks/activities performed, the identification of the person performing the tasks/activities and the amount of time billed to perform the tasks/activities. The Defendant shall not redact any non-privileged information.
3. The Defendant shall produce to counsel for the Plaintiff the documents described in paragraph #1 above no later than the close of business on October 4, 2010.
