STATE EX REL. GREAT AM. INS. CO. v. SMITH

No. 60812.

574 S.W.2d 379 (1978)

STATE ex rel. GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE CO. et al., Relators, v. The Honorable Laurence R. SMITH, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Division 12, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

December 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Risjord, Ronald K. Barker, Kansas City, for relators.

Gene A. DeLeve, Ronald S. Weiss, Kansas City, for respondent.

Ernest H. Fremont, Jr., Wm. Dirk Vandever, Russell W. Baker, Jr., Neil Gerstandt, Dennis D. Palmer, George Leonard, Kansas City, for amicus curiae.


FINCH, Judge.

This original action in prohibition is the second such proceeding in this court for the purpose of resolving the issue of whether three letters concerning fire loss claims, written by an attorney to insurance companies he represents (relators), are protected from discovery by the attorney-client privilege. We make permanent our previously issued provisional rule in prohibition.

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