State ex rel. L.Y. v. Davis

SATZ, Presiding Judge.

This is an action in prohibition. The respondent circuit judge has ordered relator, L.Y., a defendant in the action below, to produce information relator gave to the Missouri Bar Plan, relator’s professional liability carrier. Relator seeks our writ to prohibit respondent from enforcing his order. We have issued our preliminary writ and now make it permanent.

In the underlying action, the plaintiff is suing relator for negligence based on relator’s alleged failure to defend an action and allowing a default judgment to be entered against the plaintiff. In the course of…