Goicochea v. Lopez

Pedro Goicochea (“Goicochea”) seeks certiorari review of the trial court’s non-final order that “sustained” Meena Lopez’s (“Plaintiff’) motion for a protective order and limited Goicochea and the other co-defendants to a single independent medical examination (“IME”) “per [medical] specialty.” We grant the petition for writ of certiorari and quash the order under review.

The Plaintiff sued several defendants, including Goicochea, for alleged injuries she sustained during three separate and unrelated automobile accidents that occurred in July 2007, November 2007, and January 2009. The Plaintiff…