Gauthreaux v. Frank

hPER CURIAM.*

Writ granted. La.R.S. 13:3715.3 was designed to protect the confidentiality of hospital peer review committee records. In pertinent part, section (A)(2) of the statute provides that “all records, notes, data, studies, analyses, exhibits, and proceedings of [a]ny hospital committee ... shall be confidential wherever located and shall be used by such committee and the members thereof only in the exercise of the proper functions of the committee and shall not be available for discovery or court subpoena regardless of where located ...” In Smith v. Lincoln General Hospital, 605 So.2d…