Volume 9

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 480a

Insurance — Liability — Indemnification — Electric company is entitled to indemnification by insurer against claims brought by power plant maintenance company employees for personal injuries arising out of maintenance company’s work at electric company station

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 137a

Insurance — Dispute between medical provider and insurer — Summary judgment entered for insurer where insured paid total outstanding balance alleged in suit to plaintiff medical provider prior to filing of suit — Attorney’s fees — Justiciable issues — Attorney’s fees awarded to insurer where it should have been readily apparent from a review of file that plaintiff medical provider had been paid in full before suit was filed

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 520a

Civil procedure — Failure to prosecute — Small claims — Insurance — Error to enter judgment of dismissal where plaintiff filed motions for default on three separate occasions during six months before dismissal

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 778a

Civil procedure — Insurance — Where insurer filed untimely responses to medical provider’s request for admissions, request for admissions are deemed admitted

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 118a

Insurance — Discovery — Motion to compel better responses to supplemental request to produce granted in part and denied in part

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 247a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Insurer is ordered to produce insured’s claim file except documents in privilege log, personnel files of all employees who worked on insured’s file, and all manuals and other items that constitute instructions to adjusters with respect to handling PIP claims — Request for entire file of insurer’s attorneys in underlying PIP action is denied

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 472a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Insurer ordered to produce manuals, pamphlets, videos or other tangible items constituting instructions given to adjusters with respect to handling of Florida PIP claims for specified years, including good faith and ethics material

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 723a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Request for production — Sanction for failure to respond to request for production

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 324b

Insurance — Discovery — Work product — “Face sheet notes” generated over time by adjusters and other insurance company personnel reviewing plaintiff’s claim and retained in defendant’s computer system — Insurer to produce face sheet notes generated prior to certain date because no evidence of any intent to question plaintiff’s claims appears in the notes prior to that date — Motion to compel denied with regard to face sheet notes which were generated after specified date and which concern insurer’s decision to request compulsory medical examination and, eventually, to terminate coverage

9 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 851c

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Third-party vendor that coordinates and schedules independent medical examinations, medical expense reviews, and peer reviews is ordered to respond to subpoena to produce documents setting forth policy used in reviews and IMEs, contracts between vendor and insurer for conducting IMEs and reviews, documents reflecting payments made by vendor to physician and payments made by insurer to vendor related to insured’s claim, and documents reflecting payments made by vendor to physician for past four years