Annemarie Tortorella-Andrews v. Michelle L. Delvecchio
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledJanuary 3, 2020
Docket2D19-0844
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
ANNEMARIE )
TORTORELLA-ANDREWS, )
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Petitioner, )
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v. ) Case No. 2D19-844
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MICHELLE L. DELVECCHIO, )
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Respondent. )
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Opinion filed January 3, 2020.
Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the
Circuit Court for Pinellas County;
Linda R. Allan, Judge.
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.
PER CURIAM.
Denied. See Allstate Ins. Co. v. Boecher, 733 So. 2d 993 (Fla. 1999);
Angeles-Delgado v. Benitez, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D2278, 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, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D1617, 2019 WL
2608343 (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, 2019 WL 847548
(Fla. 5th DCA Feb. 22, 2019), review granted, SC19-385, 2019 WL 2180625 (Fla. May
21, 2019).
SILBERMAN, BADALAMENTI, and ATKINSON, JJ., Concur.
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