Meriden Record Co. v. Browning

This is an appeal from the denial to the plaintiff, pursuant to § 1-20 of the Q-eneral Stat*634utes,1 of an order directing the defendant to issue to the plaintiff a certified copy of the death record of Norman J. LaFreniere.2 The defendant denied access to the death record “because the death record and certificate is a medical file and is not a public record under § 1-19 of the General Statutes.” The commissioner of health construes the pertinent portion of § 1-19 to mean that disclosure of medical files as a death record “would constitute an invasion of personal privacy . . . [and they are not]…