Andrews v. Ridco & Twin City Fire Ins. Co.

WILBUR, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Timothy Andrews sued Twin City Fire Insurance Company (Twin City) and Ridco, Inc. a/k/a Riddle’s (Ridco) for the alleged bad faith handling of his workers’ compensation claim. During the discovery stage of the bad faith claim, Andrews filed a motion to compel Twin City to produce wholly unredacted claim files, personnel files, and privilege logs. The circuit court concluded that Twin City impliedly waived the attorney-client privilege and ordered Twin City to produce all of the disputed documents in unredacted form. Twin City filed a petition for intermediate appeal. We…