SCOTT v. JACKSON

Nos. 90-843, 90-881 and 90-900.

596 A.2d 523 (1991)

Richard N. SCOTT and the Washington Hospital Center Corporation, Appellants, v. Arthur JACKSON, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Willard M. Jackson, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 23, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Levin, with whom David A. Roling was on the brief, for appellant Richard N. Scott.

J. Joseph Barse, with whom James F. Jordan and David B. Stratton were on the brief, for appellant The Washington Hosp. Center.

Richard J. Mudd, with whom Leslie A. King was on the brief, for appellees.

John S. Hoff, filed a brief amicus curiae, on behalf of the District of Columbia Hosp. Ass'n.

Michael C. Maher and Jeffrey Robert White filed a brief amicus curiae, on behalf of the Ass'n of Trial Lawyers of America.

Before FARRELL and WAGNER, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

The issue we must decide is whether this court has jurisdiction to review pretrial orders of the trial court requiring discovery of information under the "extraordinary necessity" exception to the District of Columbia's statutory peer review privilege governing certain medical records and reports. D.C.Code § 32-505(a) (1988). We hold that the orders, lacking requisites of finality, may not be appealed at this time.

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