EASTERN AIR LINES, INC. v. U.S. AVIATION UNDERWRITERS, INC.

No. 98-842.

716 So.2d 340 (1998)

EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES AVIATION UNDERWRITERS, INC., et al., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

August 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen & Quentel and Elliot H. Scherker and Marlene K. Silverman and Brenda K. Supple, Miami, for petitioners.

Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson and Mark S. Shapiro and Nina Kole Brown, Miami; Haight Gardner Holland & Knight and John M. Toriello; Anania, Bandklayder & Blackwell and Douglas H. Stein, Miami, respondents.

Before JORGENSON, LEVY and GREEN, JJ.


JORGENSON, Judge.

Eastern Air Lines, Inc. and Dade County [collectively referred to as Eastern] seek certiorari review of an order compelling discovery. For the following reasons, we grant the petition and quash the order under review.

This discovery dispute, which centers on assertions of attorney-client privilege, arose in the context of litigation filed in 1992 and 1996 by Eastern against multiple insurance companies.1 Eastern...

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