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11 verbatim mandatory provisions from 25-17-s-Amd.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • The Clerk of the Court shall no longer set for pretrial conference small claims cases in which the sole defendant is an insurance company. 2. • Upon the filing of a small claims case in which an insurance company is the sole defendant, the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure shall automatically be invoked without further order of the court, except that Rule 1.440 shall not be invoked, and Rules 7.135 and 7.150 are reserved and prevail over Rule 1.430. • The parties’ appearance at the small claims pretrial conference shall accordingly be waived and cancelled, if already inadvertently set. 3. • Defendant shall have 30 days from the service of this Administrative Order to respond to any outstanding discovery. 4. • As part of the invocation of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Form 1.902 summons shall be used for service of process. • The plaintiff is required to submit the statutory fee and proposed summons to the Clerk for issuance. 5. • This Administrative Order shall apply to each such case where the sole defendant is an insurance company and shall be served with the complaint. 6. • In all small claims actions not solely against an insurance company, the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure shall only apply upon the entry of an order by the Court. • The requesting party must submit a motion and proposed order, or an agreed order, invoking the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. • The Clerk shall not cancel a scheduled pretrial conference unless an order invoking the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure has been entered. 7. • This Order shall take effect on August 27 th 2025 and remain in full force and effect unless modified or rescinded by further order.
The Clerk of the Court shall no longer set for pretrial conference small claims cases in which the sole defendant is an insurance company. 2.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 1469cdace2f2e718e8e53d6e0f80e5ae81d36ec7d565c156bfd6ed5d48ff0f99 (139338 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
Florida follows the federal summary-judgment standard. The motion must be served at least 40 days before the hearing; the nonmovant's response is due no later than 20 days before the hearing.
How Florida procedural deadlines are computed: exclude the trigger day; count every day for periods of 7 days or more; for periods under 7 days, skip intermediate weekends and legal holidays; roll forward when the last day is a weekend or holiday.
Judge Siperstein requires every motion to be set within 5 days of filing and heard within 60 days, or it may be deemed abandoned.