Case Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. Herbert KINDL, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2010-11-12
Citations: 49 So. 3d 807
Docket Number: No. 5D10-1722
Parties: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. Herbert KINDL, Respondent.
Judges: SAWAYA, PALMER and EVANDER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 49
Pages: 807–808

Head Matter:
UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. Herbert KINDL, Respondent.
No. 5D10-1722.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Nov. 12, 2010.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 21, 2010.
James S. Curtis, of Groelle & Salmon, PA., Tampa, for Petitioner.
Mark A. Nation, of The Nation Law Firm, Longwood, for Respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petitioner, United Services Automobile Association, seeks certiorari relief to quash an order compelling discovery of its claim file. We grant the petition and quash the order because discovery of an insurer's claim file, while a coverage issue is pending, is improper. Seminole Cas. Ins. Co. v. Mastrominas, 6 So.3d 1256, 1258 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009); GEICO Gen. Ins. Co. v. Hoy, 927 So.2d 122, 126 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006) (insured's breach of contract suit against insurer raised a coverage issue, which was not settled by insurei''s payment of part of what the insured was claiming in breach of contract action); see also Illinois Nat Ins. Co. v. Bolen, 997 So.2d 1194 (Fla. 5th DCA 2008); American Bankers Ins. Co. of Fla. v. Wheeler, 711 So.2d 1347 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998).
PETITION GRANTED; ORDER QUASHED.
SAWAYA, PALMER and EVANDER, JJ., concur.