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CHOMAT v. NORTHERN INS. CO. OF NEW YORK

No. 3D05-1452.

919 So.2d 535 (2006)

Carlos CHOMAT and Elena Chomat, Petitioners, v. NORTHERN INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK and Seitlin & Company, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hunter, Williams & Lynch and Christopher J. Lynch, for petitioners.

Lane Reese Aulick Summers & Ennis; McKenna Long & Aldridge and J. Randolph Evans; Bernstein, Chackman & Liss and Julia Luyster, Hollywood; Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan Berlin and Michael S. Perse, Miami, for respondent Northern Insurance Company of New York.

Bernstein, Chackman & Liss and Julia Luyster and Steven J. Chackman, Hollywood, for respondent Seitlin & Company.

Burlington & Rockenbach, West Palm Beach, for the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers as amicus curiae.

Before COPE, C.J., and FLETCHER and CORTIÑAS, JJ.

COPE, C.J.

By petition for writ of certiorari, the petitioners challenge a trial court order ruling that the attorney-client privilege has been waived in this litigation arising out of a Coblentz1 agreement. We grant the petition in part and deny it in part.

I.

Carlos Chomat, an employee of Southeastern Paper Products Export, Inc., suffered severe injuries in a workplace accident, which caused the loss of most...

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