Ashokan v. State, Department of Insurance

OPINION

Petitioner asks this court to issue a writ of prohibition or, in the alternative, mandamus to prohibit the use of a confidential report prepared by a hospital’s quality assurance/peer review committee on the ground that this report enjoys a broad privilege against disclosure or admissibility into evidence. Although the petition suffers from a procedural defect, we nonetheless reach the merits of petitioner’s contention. We deny the petition because respondents’ use of the report does not implicate the narrow privilege which attaches to quality assurance/peer review committee materials.

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