Although a relatively small sum, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. did not go gently when a Pembroke Pines clinic sued to collect about $888 in unpaid reimbursement for two MRIs in a personal injury protection case.

The insurer instead paid attorneys to launch two appeals—the last of which fizzled Wednesday before the Fourth District Court of Appeal—after Pembroke Pines MRI Inc. spent years wrestling for a bigger payment.