TORTORELLA ANDREWS v. DELVECCHIO (2020)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Annemarie TORTORELLA-ANDREWS, Petitioner, v. Michelle L. DELVECCHIO, Respondent.

Case No. 2D19-844

Decided: January 03, 2020

Kansas R. Gooden and Geneva R. Fountain of Boyd & Jenerette, PA, Miami, for Petitioner. James S. Curtis of Frank D. Butler, P.A., Pinellas Park, for Respondent.

Denied. See Allstate Ins. Co. v. Boecher, 733 So. 2d 993 (Fla. 1999); Angeles-Delgado v. Benitez, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D2278, ––– So.3d ––––, 2019 WL 4281736 (Fla. 3d DCA Sept. 11, 2019) (concluding that Worley v. Central Florida Young Men's Christian Ass'n, 228 So. 3d 18 (Fla. 2017), which “holds only that the attorney-client privilege bars compelled disclosure of whether the plaintiff's lawyer referred the plaintiff to a treating physician,” did not bar “discovery of information about the financial and professional relationships between Defendants' insurer, expert witnesses, and the law firm defending them”); see also Dodgen v. Grijalva, 281 So.3d 490 (Fla. 4th DCA June 26, 2019) review granted, SC19-1118, 2019 WL 4805833 (Fla. Oct. 1, 2019); Younkin v. Blackwelder, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D549, ––– So.3d ––––, 2019 WL 847548 (Fla. 5th DCA Feb. 22, 2019), review granted, SC19-385, 2019 WL 2180625 (Fla. May 21, 2019).

PER CURIAM.

SILBERMAN, BADALAMENTI, and ATKINSON, JJ., Concur.

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