Case ID: so3d_181/html/0577-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GEICO INDEMNITY COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Mark CHMIELEWSKI, as court-appointed guardian of Matthew Martin, and Raymond Consul, Respondents.
    No. 2D15-3034.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    Jan. 6, 2016.
    B. Richard Young, Megan M. Hall, and Courtney F. Smith of Young, Bill, Roum-bos & Boles, P.A., Pensacola, for Petitioner.
    Steven T. Wittmer of Wittmer/Linehan, PLLC, Sarasota, for Respondent Mark Chmieléwski.
    T.R. Unice, Jr., Jeffrey D. Jensen, and Ashley D. Jordan of Unice Salzman Jensen, P.A., Trinity, for Respondent, Raymond Consul.
   KELLY, Judge.

GEICO Indemnity Company, a nonparty to an automobile negligence action, seeks certiorari review of an order compelling production of its claim file. Mark Chmie-lewski, as court-appointed guardian for Matthew Martin, correctly concedes that the order departs from the essential requirements of law because GEICO was not properly served with a lawful subpoena in the manner prescribed by Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.351 (production of documents without deposition from a nonparty). Accordingly, we quash the order compelling production of the documents and remand for further proceedings.

Petition granted; order quashed; remanded.

NORTHCUTT and CRENSHAW, JJ., Concur. 
      
      . Order on Exceptions to Recommended Order of General Magistrate rendered on June 11, 2015.