Baldwin v. South Carolina Department of Highways & Public Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s disclosure of otherwise privileged information to defendant’s insurance broker waived the privilege
• holding that factual reports of investigation, and an insurer’s evaluation of those reports contained in a claims files, are prepared in the ordinary line of business and duty until litigation has been threatened
• ordering the disclosure of fact work product where plaintiff could not obtain the substantial equivalent from other sources in the context of an unfair settlement claim
• “[f]act work product is protected from disclosure, but to a lesser degree than opinion work product”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).