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Independent Medical Exams in California Personal Injury Claims

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In California personal injury cases, many plaintiffs must undergo independent medical examinations (IMEs) to determine the extent of harm done. The results of these evaluations can significantly impact the outcome of their...more

Marshall Dennehey

Southern District of Florida Punitively Enforces Discovery Schedule Against Insurance Company in an Uninsured Motorist Action

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Morgan v. Standard Fire Insurance Company, 2024 WL 2782167 (S.D. Fla. Apr. 22, 2024) - Though this case involves a fairly straightforward issue of a plaintiff pursuing uninsured motorist insurance benefits from her own...more

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Court Orders Video Recording of Neuropsychological Examination

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In the case of Cherelle Matchet v. Karen Nelson-Hughes, Civil No. 2022-43 (USDC Virgin Islands 5/6/24), the Federal District Court addressed whether the plaintiff’s neuropsychological examination by the defendant’s expert...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New Best Practices Under E-Discovery Spoliation Rule

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As the volume of electronically stored information, or ESI, subject to discovery has exploded, allegations of spoliation have multiplied. Before the 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, courts relied on...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Delaware Superior Court Upholds Motion to Compel Insurer to Produce Defense Medical Examination Reports Because the Reports Were...

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AmGUARD Insurance Company ("AmGUARD") was ordered to comply with a plaintiff’s request for production in a worker's compensation case for forty-one medical reports of other, unrelated patients drafted by the same doctor...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Supreme Court says lawyer's referral of client to a doctor for treatment is attorney-client privileged communication, and out of...

The Florida Supreme Court declared that the attorney-client privilege shielded a motor vehicle accident plaintiff from being required to disclose that her attorney had referred her to a doctor for treatment. In Worley v....more

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