In Re: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure - 2019 Regular-Cycle Report

Summary

The Supreme Court of Florida adopted most of the proposed amendments in the Civil Procedure Rules Committee’s 2019 regular-cycle report, including amendments concerning discovery sanctions, electronically stored information, remittitur and additur, injunction bonds, presuit screening, arbitration, service forms, and foreclosure forms. The court adopted a new remittitur-and-additur rule with modifications but declined to amend the proposal-for-settlement rule or adopt the proposed proposal-for-settlement form. The amendments became effective January 1, 2020, at 12:01 a.m.