Volume 24

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 159a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2402BARRInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Billing clerk — Where insurer has attempted to limit reimbursement to permissive statutory fee schedule, deposition of medical provider’s billing clerk for purposes of inquiring into reasonableness of bills is improper

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 727a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2409FERGInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Scope of inquiry and documents that are required to be produced at deposition of insurer’s corporate representative

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 638a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2408SALOInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Insurer’s corporate representative — Approval of form of notice of taking videotaped deposition duces tecum — Scope of inquiry — Documents to be produced

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 449c

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2406WILNInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Scope of inquiry in deposition duces tecum of insurer’s corporate representative — Medical provider may inquire into method of determining usual and customary charges in community and reasonableness of provider’s charges — Insurer is required to produce entire PIP claim file and documents relating to all medical reports and bills received from provider, auto-processing of claim, damage to vehicle, and calculation of reasonable amount for services rendered and methodology used — Insurer must also produce documents relied upon to dispute amount charged by provider, geo-zip report, and any executed agreements between insurer and any third-party auditing vendor used to adjust claim

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 68a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2401HAYEInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Scope of inquiry at deposition of insurer’s corporate representative

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 544a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2407NARCInsurance — Discovery — Depositions — Motion for reconsideration of order regarding insurer’s failure to cooperate in scheduling deposition of its corporate representative is denied where motion contains arguments that should have been, could have been or were raised at hearing

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 342b

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2405DOTTInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Failure to comply — Sanctions are awarded where insurer failed to produce medical records and explanations of reimbursement from other medical providers to insured, asserting requirements of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that were found not to be applicable to insurer in three prior cases — Motions to compel production of documents and deposition of insurer’s corporate representative are granted

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 557b

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2407AUGUInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Insurer that paid claim in accordance with permissive statutory fee schedule is entitled to depose insured to verify that services were in fact provided, but may not depose insured about reasonableness of charges

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 994b

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2411PEREInsurance — Discovery — Depositions — Failure to provide deposition dates and attend noticed deposition — Sanctions

24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 692a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2409POHEInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — Owner of medical provider deposed as treating physician is not entitled to expert witness fee