KENNETH DAVIS, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Peter R. Genovese, M.D. v. Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co., 74 So. 3d 1064 (Fla. 2011)
  …ings. In doing so, the district court cited its decision in Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. Bennett, 939 So. 2d 1113 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006), and the First District Court of Appeal’s decision in XL Specialty Insurance Co. v. Aircraft Holdings, LLC, 929 So. 2d 578 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006). Genovese, 943 So. 2d at 322-23. The Fourth District also certified the above question to be of great public importance. ANALYSIS The certified question asks whether our holding in Allstate Indemnity Co. v. Ruiz, 899 So. 2d 112…
• State Farm Fla. Ins. Co. v. Seville Place Condo. Ass'n, Inc., 74 So. 3d 105 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011)
  …2008), and XL Specialty Insurance Co. v. Skystream, Inc., 988 So. 2d 96 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008). Unlike our sister courts, see Illinois Nat’l Ins. Co. v. Bolen, 53 So. 3d 388, 389-90, (Fla. 5th DCA 2011); XL Specialty Ins. Co. v. Aircraft Holdings, LLC, 929 So. 2d 578, 587 n. 7 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006), petition for cert. filed, No. SC 06-1303 (Fla. June 29, 2006), and dismissed No. SC06-1303 (Fla. Sept. 9, 2008); United Auto. Ins. Co. v. Tienna, 780 So. 2d 1010, 1011 n. 4 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001); Mich. Millers Mut. Ins.…
• W. Bend Mut. Ins. Co. v. Higgins, 9 So. 3d 655 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009)
  …state Indemnity Co. v. Ruiz, 899 So. 2d 1121 (Fla.2005), eliminates the attorney-client privilege in first-party insurance eases where the plaintiff asserts statutory bad faith under section 624.155.1 XL Specialty Ins. Co. v. Aircraft Holdings, LLC, 929 So. 2d 578 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006). Moreover, even if the privilege were eliminated, such a nullification of privilege cannot logically extend to communications made after the underlying first-party insurance dispute is adjudicated. All of the three disputed docu…

Authorities Cited

• Toomajan v. State, 785 So. 2d 1275 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001)