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Filing # 126181402 E-Filed 05/05/2021 09:04:31 AM
MEL OKEEFFE & MAUREEN OKEEFFE, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN
Petitioners, AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY,
FLORIDA
Vv.
FEDNAT INSURANCE COMPANY, CASE NO.: 502021CA005610XXXXMB
DIVISION:
Respondent.
SUMMONS
DEFENDANT TO BE SERVED:
FEDNAT INSURANCE COMPANY
clo Florida Chief Financial Officer as RA
200 East Gaines Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-4201
IMPORTANT
A lawsuit has been filed against you. You have 20 calendar days after this summons is
served on you to file a written response to the attached complaint/petition with the clerk
of this circuit court, located at: 205 North Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.
A phone call will not protect you. Your written response, including the case number
given above and the names of the parties, must be filed if you want the Court to hear
your side of the case. If you do not file your written response on time, you may lose the
case, and your wages, money, and property may be taken thereafter without further
warming from the Court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an
attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral
service or a legal aid office (listed in the phone book). If you choose to file a written
response yourself, at the same time you file your written response to the Court, you
must also serve a copy of your written response on the party serving this summons at:
SCHATZMAN & HOVANYECZ, P.A.
DATE Charidan Chant Hone
4/9 Oneiiuan SUES. #Z2UU0
Hollywood, Florida 33021
If the party serving summons has designated e-mail address(es) for service or is
represented by an attorney, you may designate e-mail address(es) for service by or on
you. Service must be in accordance with Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516.
Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of
the Circuit Court's office, You mav review these documents, unon request,
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TO EACH SHERIFF OF THE STATE: You are commanded to serve this summons and
a copy of the complaint in this lawsuit on the above-named person.
May 06 2021
DATED:
JOSEPH ABRUZZO
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ON CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
b—_
Deputy Clerk
TIKILA BROWNIN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
IN RE: STANDING ORDER FOR,
CASE MANAGEMENT FOR SUBMISSION
OF AGREED CASE MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR
CASES FILED ON OR AFTER APRIL 30, 2021
/
STANDING ORDER FOR CASE MANAGEMENT AND SUBMISSION OF AGREED
CASE MANAGEMENT PLAN IN CIVIL CASES
IN THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FILED ON_OR AFTER APRIL 30,2021
PPEEet (DCMSO) 7
Pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.200(a), Florida Rule of General Practice and
Judicial Administration 2.545, and Administrative Order 3.107 entered by the Chief Judge of this
Circuit, the parties are informed of the following information and procedures applicable to civil
lawsuits filed in the Circuit Court on or after April 30, 2021:
. SERVICE OF THIS ORDER. The Plaintiff is directed 7 serve a copy of this ed
with each Summons issued in this case. One copy of tis Orde
Circuit Court with proof of service.
2. CIVIL CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. The Supreme Court of Florida has
established guidelines for the prompt processing and resolution of civil cases. This Court has
adopted a case management system to help meet those guidelines. In contested cases, the parties
are required to participate in the ¢ case management system. The case management system requires
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Agreed Case Management Plan and early involvement by the Court. The Agreed Case
Management Plan requires the parties to identify a case track, confer in good faith and attempt to
narrow the matters in controversy, identify the issues that require direct involvement by the Court,
and establish a schedule for addressing those issues’! The Agreed Case Management Plan may be
accessed at the Court’s website at: https://1 Sthcircuit.com/civil-differentiated-forms-and-orders.
Unless all of the Defendants have been served and have been defaulted or dropped, an Agreed
Case Management Plan must be submitted to the assigned divisional queue via the Court’s online
scheduling system (OLS) as an attachment, in PDF format, to a proposed Order Accepting Agreed
Case Management Plan on or before 130 days from the date of filing of the initial complaint. If
the parties are unable to agree on an Agreed Case Management Plan by the applicable deadline, a
' Case Track options include Expedited, Streamlined, General, or Complex. Case Tracks have been
8 Standards set forth in Florida Rule of General
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Practice and Judicial Administration 2.250(a)(1)(B).case management conference will be scheduled by the Court or the Court will review and issue an
Order Implementing Case Management Plan without agreement of the Parties. No matters that
arise as a result of this standing order, including lack of agreement, will be set on the Court’s
Uniform Motion Calendar and will, instead, be settled by the Court either at the case management
conference or via an Order Implementing Case Management Plan without agreement of the parties.
If a case management conference is scheduled, attendance by trial counsel and those parties who
are not represented by counsel is mandatory.
if aii Deiendants are served and defauited or dropped, the Piaintif? will file the appropriaie
documentation to pursue a Default Final Judgment within 130 days of the filing of the complaint
and Final Judgment is to be entered or set for hearing within 150 days of the filing of the complaint.
3.. MEDIATION/ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR). ADR
provides parties with an out-of-court alternative to settling disagreements. Mediation is a type of
ADR wherein an independent third party attempts to arrange a settlement at a conference between
the parties
DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County,
Florida, on this 26 day of April, 2021.
Administrative Circuit Judge