Nazareth Literary & Benevolent Institution v. Stephenson

REED, Justice.

The petitioners are SS. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital and three physicians who are defendants in a civil action pending in the division of the Jefferson Circuit Court over which the respondent judge presides. According to the pleadings, the plaintiff in the civil action alleges malpractice on the part of the physicians and negligence on the part of the hospital causing serious, permanent, personal injury. The controversy concerns the discoverability of several written statements received by the hospital from physician members of its staff in which reports are made about the…