State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. German

Petitioner seeks certiorari review of an order denying discovery of information from Respondent’s treating physicians. Curiously, although the trial court ordered Respondent to provide answers to so-called Boecher1 interrogatories, seeking information concerning the physicians’ involvement with Respondent’s counsel in prior cases, it denied Petitioner’s request to examine the physicians to uncover evidence of bias, as permitted by Elkins v. Syken, 672 So.2d 517 (Fla.1996) and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.280(b)(4)(A)(iii). The trial court concluded that, because the physicians were…