Coopersmith v. Perrine

Edward Coopersmith, the defendant below in a personal injury case, petitions for certiorari review of a non-final order granting plaintiff Elizabeth Perrine’s motion to overrule objections to interrogatories.

Coopersmith takes issue with a specific subsection of an interrogatory, which requires Coopersmith to furnish a “general summary of the opinions and basis of the opinions” offered by his medical experts in other cases.1 We grant the petition because the summaries will invade the privacy rights of non-parties, as protected by section 456.057(7)(a)(3), Florida Statutes (2010). See Graham v.…