Smith v. Maryland Casualty Co.

RUBIN, District Judge:

Defendants seek an order requiring the plaintiff to execute an authorization to permit the “defendant to inspect and copy the hospital records of plaintiff, Mrs. Marjorie Green Smith.”

The plaintiff brought this diversity action for injuries allegedly sustained as a ’ result of an operation at Touro Infirmary. She contends that she went to the infirmary for a hysterectomy. After the operation, she discovered a pain in her left foot and was unable to walk. Her injury was diagnosed as a fracture of her left foot and her foot was placed in a cast. Following the…