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Chuck TEDDER and Sportfishing International, Inc., Appellants, v. Philip J. CORSO, Jr., d/b/a Marine Electronics Wholesalers and Adams Boatbuilding Co., Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees.
    No. 90-0058.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Dec. 12, 1990.
    John F. Tierney, III of Tierney & Haughwout, West Palm Beach, for appellants.
    Kevin D. Wilkinson of Wilkinson and Wilkinson, West Palm Beach, for appellees.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse. The trial court erred in striking appellants’ / defendants’ / Chuck Tedder’s and Sportfishing International’s (Tedder) defenses and counterclaims without making an express written finding that Tedder’s failure to provide answers to interrogatories and to respond to a request for production was willful or done in bad faith, or was a deliberate and contumacious disregard of the trial court’s discovery order. Commonwealth Fed. Sav. and Loan Ass’n v. Tubero, 569 So.2d 1271 (Fla.1990); Trupei v. City of Lighthouse Point, 506 So.2d 19 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987).

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

GUNTHER, STONE and POLEN, JJ., concur.