Magistrate Orders Clinic To Ask Employees, Contractors For Business Emails

Mealey's (December 4, 2020, 9:01 AM EST) -- DETROIT — A federal magistrate judge in Michigan on Dec. 2 granted in part a motion to compel filed by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., by ordering a clinic accused of submitting bills for medically unnecessary treatments to formally ask its current employees and contractors to search their emails for business records that are responsive to the requests for production and allowing the insurer to subpoena Google for metadata from three email accounts associated with the clinic’s employees....