Muhtar v. Aetna Insurance Co.

The Muhtars, the plaintiffs below, appeal a final order of dismissal imposed as a sanction for failure to comply with a discovery order. We reverse.

The Muhtars sued Aetna Insurance Company (Aetna) when it refused to pay a claim for damage to goods which Aetna had insured for transit from Panama to Miami.

Aetna propounded a set of interrogatories which was lengthy and detailed.1 After three attempts to comply with such a burdensome request, including a translation of Spanish documents into English, the court dismissed the Muhtars’ suit.

As we have noted in many prior decisions, dismissal is to…