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TRANS-WORLD INVESTMENTS v. DROBNY

No. 2990.

554 P.2d 1148 (1976)

TRANS-WORLD INVESTMENTS and Suburban Realty, Inc., Petitioners, v. Richard H. DROBNY, Respondent. Carol VERVICK and Larry Vervick, Petitioners, v. ANCHORAGE, a municipal corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 30, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Pletcher, III, Anchorage, for Trans-World.

Peter A. Galbraith, Anchorage, for Vervick.

Karen L. Hunt, Anchorage, for Drobny.

John W. Pletcher, III, Anchorage, for City of Anchorage.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, ERWIN and BURKE, JJ.

OPINION

ERWIN, Justice.

The court is required to determine in these petitions whether, and to what extent, the physician-patient evidentiary privilege is waived by virtue of the patient filing a personal injury lawsuit.1 Because the privilege in issue has been subject to diverse interpretations not only in Alaska's courts,2 but in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska

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