Clarendon National Insurance Co. v. Shogreen

The petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition quashing both (1) a decision by three circuit judges of the circuit court appellate division who participated in a per curiam affirmance of a county court judgment against the petitioner, and (2) an order in which one of the three judges denied the petitioner’s motion to disqualify her. We deny the petition.

The county court judgment affirmed by the three-judge panel was for a personal injury protection claim for an amount of approximately $2400. One of the three appellate division panel members, years earlier and while in private practice, signed a…