In re Nat’l Lloyds Ins. Co. (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseMary Erving filed suit against National Lloyds Insurance Company, alleging that National Lloyds had underpaid her insurance claims. During discovery, Erving requested production of all claims from the previous six years involving three individual adjusters along with claim files from the past year for properties involving two adjusting firms that handled her claims. National Lloyds objected to the requests as overbroad and unduly burdensome, after which Erving moved to compel production. The trial court ordered production of the majority of the files. National Lloyds unsuccessfully filed a petition for writ of mandamus with the court of appeals and, thereafter, sought mandamus relief in the Supreme Court. The Court conditionally granted mandamus relief and directed the trial court to vacate its discovery order, holding that because the information Erving sought was not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, the trial court’s order compelling discovery of such information was overbroad.
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