Doughty v. Greenberg

This is an application by the plaintiffs to disclose and discover a statement made by the defendant to his own insurance company prior to the time this lawsuit was instituted.

Different courts seem to have taken diverse views on the subject, some of them prior to the effective date of the CPLR which now in 3101 counsels full disclosure in all matters with only a few specific limitations.

I think it clear that this statement is neither privileged nor does it involve the work product of an attorney, since the basic situation of an insurance company employee taking a statement from an assured…