MATTER OF PETITION OF STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO.

No. 98-C-75.

708 So.2d 1282 (1998)

In The Matter of the PETITION OF STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY for a Pre-Suit Medical Examination and to Perpetuate Testimony (regarding Celeste Schmitt).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

March 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford E. Cardone, Ivan A. Orihuela, New Orleans, for Relator.

Lynette Hall Lewis, Metairie, for Respondent.

Before GAUDIN, BOWES and GOTHARD, JJ.


GOTHARD, Judge.

WRIT GRANTED, JUDGMENT REVERSED.

Relator, Celeste Schmitt seeks review of a district court ruling which ordered her to submit to an independent medical examination, and which granted State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company leave to take the depositions of Ms. Schmitt and any other unnamed witnesses. For the following reasons we reverse that judgment.

State Farm filed this petition for a pre-suit medical examination and depositions...

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