Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Ridgeview Institute, Inc.

Pope, Judge.

We granted this interlocutory appeal to determine whether certain medical and psychiatric records in the possession of appellee Ridgeview Institute, Inc. (Ridgeview) should be produced in connection with a civil suit for damages brought by plaintiff Dr. Jose A. Rosell. Dr. Rosell was injured in an auto accident in Atlanta in November 1984. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (Aetna), appellant here, was Dr. RoselFs uninsured motorist carrier and is a party defendant in Dr. RoselFs suit for personal injuries. At the time of the accident, Dr. Rosell was completing a treatment program…