Attendees at this week's National Society of ProfessionalInsurance Investigators in Cincinnati, Ohio heard from a panel ofattorneys about legal trends in five Midwestern states, includingIndiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Thomas Haley, partner at Jennings Taylor Wheeler & Haley lawfirm, spoke on behalf of Indiana and noted several cases thatseemed to indicate a pattern of broader discovery requests. In onecase, Allstate v. Scrogham, the insurer faced thousands of dollarsin sanctions for not producing documents in a suitable timeframe.
"If you haven't gotten [this type of request], you will getone," said Haley. "It's problematic to respond to, but there areways we can work to limit some of these approaches by theplaintiff's lawyer. Here were some of the discovery requests thatwere sent to the insurance company:
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