BUPIVI v. POLLARD (2021)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Paul J. BUPIVI, as personal representative of the Estate of George L. Nicolay, Jr., deceased, Petitioner, v. Claude G. POLLARD and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Respondents.

Case No. 2D20-1122

Decided: February 10, 2021

Ian E. Waldick of Boyd & Jenerette, P.A., Jacksonville; and Kansas R. Gooden of Boyd & Jenerette, P.A., Miami; (substituted as counsel of record), for Petitioner. Alan L. Perez of Mallard Law Firm, P.A., Sarasota, for Respondent Claude G. Pollard. DeeAnn J. McLemore and Charles W. Hall of Banker Lopez Gassler P.A., St. Petersburg, for Respondent State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

Denied. See Dodgen v. Grijalva, 281 So. 3d 490, 491-92 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019) (concluding that Worley v. Central Florida Young Men's Christian Ass'n, 228 So. 3d 18 (Fla. 2017), which “held that the financial relationship between a plaintiff's law firm and treating physicians was not discoverable,” did not apply to “discovery sought from the defense side of a case”), review granted, No. SC19-1118, 2019 WL 4805833 (Fla. Oct. 1, 2019); Younkin v. Blackwelder, ––– So. 3d ––––, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D549, 2019 WL 847548 (Fla. 5th DCA Feb. 22, 2019), review granted, No. SC19-385, 2019 WL 2180625 (Fla. May 21, 2019); see also Tyrak v. Garcia, ––– So. 3d ––––, 45 Fla. L. Weekly D2247, 2020 WL 5803968 (Fla. 2d DCA Sept. 30, 2020); Tortorella-Andrews v. Delvecchio, ––– So. 3d ––––, 45 Fla. L. Weekly D65, 2020 WL 34535 (Fla. 2d DCA Jan. 3, 2020).

PER CURIAM.

VILLANTI, ROTHSTEIN-YOUAKIM, and STARGEL, JJ., Concur.

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