STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. JONES

No. 88-2486.

544 So.2d 1172 (1989)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Willie Byrnes JONES and Frank Edward Jones, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

June 15, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Franklin Wade of Kane & Williams, Orlando, for petitioner.

Scott L. Sterling, Orlando, for respondents.


ORFINGER, Judge.

State Farm, etc. seeks certiorari review of a discovery order requiring it to produce its entire claim file to its insured who has filed a first party bad faith action against the insurer. We grant the writ and quash the order.

Since the entry of the order below, the Florida Supreme Court has held, in Kujawa v. Manhattan National Life Insurance Co., 541 So.2d 1168 (Fla. 1989) that in a first party...

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