Recent intervention notice in a lawsuit under the Florida FCA against LexisNexis Risk Solutions involving sales of motor vehicle crash reports

1. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA
STATE OF FLORIDA ex rel. CHRISTOPHER HOOD,
Plaintiffs, Case No. 2018 CA 1950
v.
LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS, INC.,
a Georgia corporation,
Defendant.
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NOTICE OF INTERVENTION AND AUTOMATIC UNSEALING
The State of Florida, Office of the Attorney General, the Department of Legal Affairs
(the “Department”), hereby notifies the Court that the Department is exercising its authority to
intervene in and proceed with this action, in accordance with section 68.083(6)(a), Florida
Statutes (2018). Accordingly, the Department will conduct this action on behalf of the State of
Florida. Pursuant to the express terms of Administrative Order 2016-01, the filing of this
intervention notice automatically unseals the action, without any need for a motion to unseal.
Defendant, the largest seller of motor vehicle crash reports in the United States, has
already admitted that it paid the State only once for the sale of any crash report even when it sold
that same report multiple times (and collected an agency fee on each such sale). Defendant’s
admitted misconduct, which was perpetrated through a pattern of knowingly false records and
statements about its financial and legal obligations under the central repository contract,
wrongfully deprived the State of substantial monies that belong to the public fisc.
Filing # 77681562 E-Filed 09/11/2018 08:56:57 AM

2. Respectfully submitted,
PAMELA JO BONDI
Attorney General
/s/ Russell S. Kent
Russell S. Kent
Special Counsel for Litigation
Florida Bar No. 20257
russell.kent@myfloridalegal.com
Department of Legal Affairs
The Capitol, PL-01
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1050
Telephone: (850) 414-3854
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the undersigned electronically filed the foregoing
with the Clerk of the Court on September 11, 2018, by using the ECF system, which will
send a notice of electronic filing to all counsel of record.
/s/ Russell S. Kent
Russell S. Kent