Opinion
No. 4D09-3590.
December 23, 2009.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Edward A. Garrison, Judge; L.T. Case No. 502007CA019201XXXXMB.
Julie H. Littky-Rubin of Lytal, Reiter, Clark, Fountain Williams, LLP, West Palm Beach, and Andrew J. Weinstein of the Weinstein Law Firm, Coral Springs, for petitioners.
Kent S. Pratt of Pratt Radford, P.L., West Palm Beach, for respondents.
Petitioners seek certiorari review of a circuit court order allowing the defense to discover a video and transcript of a compulsory medical examination ("CME") of petitioner Gerard Maguire. Petitioners objected that the video and transcript they requested of the CME were counsel's protected work product, citing McGarrah v. Bayfront Medical Center, Inc., 889 So.2d 923 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004). We agree that McGarrah is controlling. Moreover, respondents have indicated that they have no objection to this court granting this petition because the video and transcript will be discoverable if petitioners decide to use this material at trial.
Accordingly, we grant the petition and quash the circuit court order compelling discovery of the video and transcript of petitioner's CME.
WARNER, FARMER and DAMOORGIAN, JJ., concur.