Sharff v. Superior Court

After a personal injury action was set for trial, the defendants made a motion for an order requiring the plaintiff to submit to an examination by defendants' doctor in the absence of her attorney. Plaintiff consented to the examination but requested that she be permitted to have her attorney present. The respondent court made an order directing that she “submit to an oral and physical examination concerning [her] alleged injuries, which said examination shall be performed in the absence of said plaintiff’s attorney . . . and that further proceedings by plaintiff in the above entitled action…