Key legal question
Whether the court-appointed experts had to be recused because the insured had contacted them and sent procedural materials before their appointment.
Extracted holding
No objective appearance of bias was established; prior contact and receipt of documents did not in themselves justify recusal.
Extracted reasoning
Pre-contact with proposed experts is not per se grounds for recusal. Objective circumstances must show an appearance of partiality. Here the insured disclosed the contact to the court, there was no proven prior relationship, the materials sent were limited to procedural documents, and the experts' communications showed professional awareness of their role rather than bias.