Anderson v. Florence

Rogosheske, Justice.

This appeal from a pretrial order pursuant to leave granted by this court concerns one of the most difficult problems encountered in the application of our Rules of Civil Procedure govern*352ing pretrial discovery to professional malpractice actions.1 Although the scope of the problem is much broader, the narrow question presented by this appeal is whether Rules 26.022 and 43.023 governing the scope of pretrial discovery and the cross-examination of an adverse party, authorize the trial court to compel defendant physician, when qualified as an expert witness, to answer…