In re State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

h GOTHARD, Judge.

WRIT GRANTED, JUDGMENT REVERSED.

Relator, Celeste Schmitt seeks review of a district court ruling which ordered her to submit to an independent medical examination, and which granted State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company leave to take the depositions of Ms. Schmitt and any other unnamed witnesses. For the following reasons we reverse that judgment.

State Farm filed this petition for a pre-suit medical examination and depositions, arguing such actions were necessary to fully evaluate the claim made by Ms. Schmitt for damages sustained in an automobile accident with a…