Cartwright v. Midtown Hospital

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

We granted Cynthia J. Cartwright’s application for discretionary appeal from the superior court’s order affirming a workers’ compensation ruling which denied her motion to compel an expert witness to provide his Social Security number during his deposition. While we find no error in the trial court’s ruling, we vacate the judgment and remand this case because the superior court lacked jurisdiction to decide the case.

In this case, Midtown Hospital, the employer, hired a physician to review the case and to testify as an expert regarding certain medical issues arising…