We track every filing on six active Miami-Dade medical-malpractice dockets, daily. This is what the record shows — and what it means for anyone who preps examinations off the first notice.
Of the 101 deposition filings, 73 are notices of taking — and 21 are amended notices and 7 outright cancellations. The first notice is not the plan; it’s the opening bid. A prep calendar built on it is fiction within a fortnight.
The practical read: the side that replans fastest prep’s best. Every amendment restarts the outline clock — and the attorney who finds out from the docket, not from opposing counsel’s courtesy email, keeps the margin.
One case accounts for 55 of the 101 deposition filings — 29% of that docket’s entire activity is the examination fight. It has 31 unique noticed witnesses and 15 operative deposition settings in a single 30-day window. The other five cases average two depositions each over the same stretch.
| Tracked case (anonymized) | Docket entries | Deposition filings | Share of docket |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case A (densest) | 192 | 55 | 29% |
| Case B | 90 | 15 | 17% |
| Case C | 127 | 11 | 9% |
| Case D | 240 | 10 | 4% |
| Case E | 53 | 8 | 15% |
| Case F | 31 | 2 | 6% |
Density changes what “prep” even means. With 15 settings in 30 days, no one outlines fifteen examinations from scratch — the work becomes triage: which witnesses get full prep, which get pattern recognition from their last three transcripts.
Notices ran five-to-nine a month through the spring — then tripled into the fall trial window. If your September looks like your June, the calendar disagrees.
Across the notices we’ve parsed, roughly 80% of noticed witnesses are expert-broad — treating physicians, nursing experts, Ph.D.s — not parties. About 45% of notices are filed by the defense. And the experts repeat: in one defense cluster, the same six retained experts recur across cases — the same physiatrist, the same radiologist, the same life-care planner. Their prior testimony is public; their patterns are consistent.
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