State Ex Rel. Faith Hospital v. Enright

ROBERTSON, Judge.

This is an original action in prohibition. Relator, Faith Hospital, seeks to prohibit Judge Richard Enright of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County from allowing plaintiffs to discover peer review committee documents, credentials committee documents and incident reports relating to the physician defendants in an underlying medical malpractice action. We issued our preliminary rule in prohibition for the limited purpose of determining the applicability of the exemption from discovery granted peer review committees, § 537.035.4, RSMo Supp. 1985, to plaintiffs’ discovery…