Cofone v. Westerly Hospital

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This case is before us on a petition for certiorari to review an order by the trial justice directing the defendant, Westerly Hospital, to produce all the records in its possession regarding the plaintiff, Charles J. Cofone. 1

The chronology of events preceding the above order commenced in April of 1978 when plaintiff was readmitted to defendant hospital after developing a postsurgical staphylococcus infection. On April 16, 1980, plaintiff and his wife, Gilda R. Co-fone, filed a complaint in Washington County Superior Court against Westerly Hospital and several unknown…