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A post in this space on Monday, February 8, 2010 explored "Mediation With Authority, Including Mediating Insurance Issues." There is also a related post on Insurance Claims and Issues Web Log. Both are based on the author's recent experiences and involvement in the Insurance Law Committee Seminar of the Orange County (Florida) Bar Association and attendance at Mediation Seminars sponsored at the Midyear Meeting in Orlando of the American Bar Association.
The author learned that Mediators in training in Florida at this time are currently taught to leave all the writing of the parties' Mediation Settlement Agreement to the parties, if they reach agreement. Florida Mediators are no longer expected to draft the parties' Agreement with their input, and the input of their lawyers of course.
To the contrary, Mediators in Florida will now be expected NOT to write the Mediation Settlement Agreement, to prevent further lawsuits in addition to those which have recently been filed in Florida cases where Mediators were asked in basic terms about provisions included in, or left out of, the parties' Mediation Settlement Agreements (although no such case is known in which a Mediator was held liable in any way).
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