Case Name: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Linda GERMAN, Individually and as, etc., et al., Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2009-07-24
Citations: 12 So. 3d 1286
Docket Number: No. 5D08-3577
Parties: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Linda GERMAN, Individually and as, etc., et al., Respondent.
Judges: GRIFFIN and COHEN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 12
Pages: 1286–1288

Head Matter:
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Linda GERMAN, Individually and as, etc., et al., Respondent.
No. 5D08-3577.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
July 24, 2009.
W. Andrew Rariden of Mimi L. Smith & Associates, Orlando, for Petitioner.
Douglas R. Beam of Douglas R. Beam, P.A., Melbourne, for Respondents.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner seeks certiorari review of an order denying discovery of information from Respondent's treating physicians. Curiously, although the trial court ordered Respondent to provide answers to so-called Boecher interrogatories, seeking information concerning the physicians' involvement with Respondent's counsel in prior cases, it denied Petitioner's request to examine the physicians to uncover evidence of bias, as permitted by Elkins v. Syken, 672 So.2d 517 (Fla.1996) and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.280(b)(4)(A)(iii). The trial court concluded that, because the physicians were "treating physicians," rather than retained experts, bias discovery of this type was not permitted.
Without reaching the merits, we conclude that we do not have jurisdiction to consider the writ because Petitioner has an adequate remedy on appeal from the adverse discovery ruling. Chavarria v. Bau-tista, 922 So.2d 245, 246 (Fla. Sd DCA 2006).
PETITION DISMISSED.
GRIFFIN and COHEN, JJ., concur.
TORPY, J., concurs and concurs specially with opinion.
. Allstate Ins. Co. v. Boecher, 733 So.2d 993 (Fla. 1999).