District Court of Appeal of Florida

A default judgment on liability against defendant in a negligence action is affirmed where the trial judge did not abuse his discretion by entering a default on liability against the defendant for failing to file an amended answer and affirmative defenses and, alternatively, as a sanction for disregarding several orders of the court involving discovery and related issues.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/07/2006
• Published 06/07/2006

Judges

• FARMER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Sherman, Sr. and Richard A. Sherman, Jr., Law Offices of Richard A. Sherman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie H. Littky-Rubin of Lytal, Reiter, Clark, Fountain & Williams, LLP, West Palm Beach, Andrew J. Weinstein of Weinstein & Associates, P.A., Coral Springs, and Craig H. Blinderman of Mrejen Blinderman, LLC, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.