#Warning label expert deposition trial#

d/b/a Safway Steel Products ('Safway'), the Court having considered said motion, having received evidence and heard argument of counsel thereon, and having considered the memoranda of law filed by the parties on said motion, having determined that the Defendant Safway has through the course of this litigation engaged in a pattern of willful discovery violations including destruction of relevant documents which it had a duty to preserve, the presentation of false testimony, and other deliberate obstruction of the discovery process for which the only adequate remedy is the striking of pleadings and the entry of a default judgment, the Court finds and concludes as follows: INTRODUCTION 1. *564 ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT AND FINAL DEFAULT JUDGMENT THIS MATTER having come before the Court for hearing on Maon the Plaintiffs' Motion for Entry of Default Judgment Against Defendant, Figgie International, Inc.

#Warning label expert deposition trial#

Because the trial court's order documents with specificity the egregious discovery violations committed by the defendant and because, under the circumstances, the trial court imposed a proper sanction, we affirm and adopt the trial court's order as the opinion of this Court: 9.130(a)(3)(C)(iv) from an order striking its pleadings and entering a default against it as a result of willful discovery violations. The defendant below, Figgie International Inc., d/b/a Safway Steel Products, Inc., appeals under Fla.R.App.P. Lerner and Arno Kutner, Miami Lawrence Rodgers, Miami and Stephen Epstein, Garden City, NY, for appellees.īefore SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON and GODERICH, JJ. Wasson, Miami Kutner, Rubinoff, Bush & Lerner and Susan S. Talisman, Coconut Grove, for appellant.īarbara Green, Coral Gables David Mishael, Miami Roy D. Hinshaw & Culbertson Russo & Talisman and Elizabeth K.

96-895.ĭistrict Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District. 698 So.2d 563 (1997) FIGGIE INTERNATIONAL, INC., d/b/a Safway Steel Products, Inc., Appellant,ĭennis Troy ALDERMAN, et al.