State Ex Rel. Williams v. Lohmar

OPINION

BOOKER T. SHAW, Presiding Judge.

Emmett Wiliams, et al., (“Relator”) filed a petition for writ of prohibition seeking to prevent the Honorable William Lohmar (“Respondent”) from allowing discovery of nonparty medical records in a wrongful death action. Our preliminary order of prohibition is made absolute.

The underlying action is for the wrongful death of Relator’s wife (“Decedent”) alleging medical malpractice against J. Stephen Scott, M.D. and Roger de la Torre, M.D. (“Defendants”) during laparo-scopic bariatric surgery in April 2000. James M. Balliro, M.D. (“Dr.Balliro”) was named as…