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contemplating dismissal as an appropriate sanction when failure to attend mediation is willful
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Case No. 1D01-2077.
Opinion filed January 23, 2003.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Alachua County. Judge Chester B. Chance.
Carolyn T. Smith, pro se.
Brent F. Bardley, Kinsey, Troxel, Johnson Walborsky, Pensacola, and Jeffrey P. Gill, Vernis Bowling of NW Florida, Pensacola, for Appellee.
The trial court's order of dismissal is REVERSED, and the case is REMANDED to the trial court for an explicit determination whether the plaintiff's failure to attend the mediation conference was willful. See Commonwealth Federal Savings and Loan Association v. Tubero, 569 So.2d 1271 (Fla. 1990); Tiller v. Straub Capital Corp., 800 So.2d 364 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001); Swindle v. Reid 242 So.2d 751 (Fla. 4th DCA 1971).
BARFIELD, POLSTON, and HAWKES, JJ., CONCUR.