Geico General Insurance Co. v. Paton

Geico General Insurance Company petitions for a writ of certiorari from two trial court orders that permit discovery of its attorney’s billing records. The records were sought by the respondent in support of her claim for attorney’s fees in the litigation below. We grant the petition because the respondent failed to make the showing required to obtain her opponent’s attorney’s fee records.

This case is controlled by Estilien v. Dyda, 93 So.3d 1186 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012). That case took the view that “the records of one’s opponent are, at best, only marginally relevant to the general issue of…