Meadowbrook Health Care Services of Florida, Inc. v. Acosta

The court’s sanction of striking the defendant’s pleadings and entering a default judgment on liability is reversed as clearly excessive and disproportionate to Meadowbrook’s act of failing to comply with a discovery order while a motion for rehearing concerning the propriety of that order was still pending in this court. Wainscott v. Rindley, 610 So.2d 649 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992); J.E.I. Airlines, Inc. v. Britton, Cassel, Schantz & Schatzman, P.A., 605 So.2d 1009 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992).

Meadowbrook’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari to review the court’s order permitting financial discovery is denied.…