Volume 15

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 841a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Expert witness fee — Treating physician is not entitled to expert witness fee for appearance at deposition

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1048a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Expert witness fee — Treating physician — Where insurer sought to depose treating physician regarding professional services rendered and whether treatment was medically necessary and related to accident, trial court correctly determined that physician was entitled to expert witness fee under rule 1.390

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 372b

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Non-party deponent — Insurer seeking order compelling discovery from non-party independent contractor who performed orthopedic consultation at issue must seek order from circuit court, not county court

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1106a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Where insurer alleges affirmative defenses, medical provider may require corporate representative of insurer that maintains its place of business in Brevard County to travel to Miami-Dade County for deposition — Request to stay case while insurer seeks certiorari review of order denying protective order is denied

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 795a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Location — Certiorari challenge to order denying motion for protective order seeking to move location for deposition of insurer’s litigation adjuster from Broward County to Brevard County or Addison, Texas — Rule that defendant should not be required to travel great distance for discovery deposition is not applicable where insurer has asserted affirmative defense — Standing — Assignment — Claim that insured who assigned benefits to medical provider lacks standing is not properly before appellate court where claim was never brought before trial court or raised as affirmative defense

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1056a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — County court did not depart from essential requirements of law by compelling defendant’s claims adjuster, who resided in Hillsborough County, to attend deposition in Miami-Dade County — Because insurer alleged in its answer affirmative defenses that medical services were not reasonable, related, or necessary and that insured made material misrepresentations on insurance application, plaintiff was permitted to depose adjuster in Miami-Dade County

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1198a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Insurer that has designated litigation adjuster for deposition pursuant to rule 1.310(b)(6) is not required to produce presuit adjuster named in medical provider’s notice of taking deposition

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1007a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 157b

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Deposition of insured limited in scope and duration

15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 680b

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Default — Vacation — Although insurer demonstrated due diligence in moving to set aside default and established excusable neglect through affidavit stating that untimely filing was due to courier’s error, insurer failed to establish meritorious defense — Denial of motion to vacate is affirmed