Plunkett v. Ginsburg

Andrews, Judge.

We granted interlocutory appeal to consider the trial court’s grant of a motion for protective order. The order prohibited the discovery of the records of a psychiatrist treating plaintiff Ginsburg, who had sued Plunkett as a result of an automobile accident.

The accident occurred on June 13, 1991 and Ginsburg, an optometrist, has not worked again since. Her complaint alleged that she had suffered “severe and great pain of body and mind.” During discovery, Dr. Rascoe, the psychiatrist, was identified as one “who rendered treatment to her following the automobile accident.”…