Wenninger v. Muesing

Rogosheske, Justice.

Petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the district court from enforcing an order granting defendant’s motion to direct plaintiffs to provide defendant with an authorization waiving medical privilege with respect to physicians who have examined and treated plaintiff-patient and authorizing defendant’s counsel to engage in pretrial discovery of plaintiff’s attending physicians by interrogating them in a private and informal interview outside the presence of plaintiffs’ counsel. The single issue presented is whether unilateral, private interviews of a patient’s…