39 Fla. L. Weekly D1806a Torts — Automobile accident — Discovery — Financial relationship between treating doctor and plaintiff’s attorneys in present and past cases — Trial court did not depart from essential requirements of law in overruling treating physician’s objections to subpoena requesting documents regarding patients previously represented by law firms representing plaintiff, letter Read More »
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Trial Court Order — Service of Process defective under local administrative order but proper under applicable statute was legally sufficient
21 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 877b Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2109DEBE Civil procedure — Service of process — Where defendant was personally served with process, process server was not required to inform defendant of contents of document — Failure to include descriptive narrative of method of execution that is required by administrative order of court, but Read More »
Premises Liability — Transitory Foreign Substance Statute — Effect of Amendment — Trial court correctly entered summary judgment in favor of grocery store where plaintiff argued only constructive, and not actual, knowledge of substance
39 Fla. L. Weekly D1750a Torts — Premises liability — Slip and fall — Supermarket — Wet floor — Knowledge of dangerous condition — Constructive knowledge — No error in granting summary judgment in favor of defendant where plaintiff failed to prove that defendant had constructive knowledge of any alleged transitory foreign substance requiring remedial Read More »
Property Insurance — Trial court erred in requiring carrier to pay for subsurface repairs before insured entered into contract for such repairs in contravention of policy language tracking 627.707, Fla. Stat.
39 Fla. L. Weekly D1756a Insurance — Homeowners — Property damage — Sinkhole — Subsurface repairs — Error to order insurer to pay for subsurface repairs before homeowner entered into contract for these repairs where insurance policy contained loss settlement provision which authorized withholding of payment until homeowners entered into contract for repairs TOWER HILL Read More »
Property Insurance — Insureds failed to rebut presumption of prejudice arising from their breach of condition precedent to coverage
39 Fla. L. Weekly D1762b Insurance — Homeowners — Trial court did not err in entering summary judgment for insurer in insured’s action against insurer on ground that insureds breached a condition precedent to coverage by failing to submit a timely proof of loss — Insureds failed to present any evidence to rebut presumption that Read More »