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STATE EX REL. W.VA. FIRE & CAS. v. KARL

No. 25046.

505 S.E.2d 210 (1998)

202 W.Va. 470

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. WEST VIRGINIA FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY and Joe Kirtner, Petitioners, v. Honorable Mark A. KARL, Judge of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, Jimmy Lee Price and Nora Lee Price, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 6, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine D. Munster, James A. Varner, Tiffany R. Durst, McNeer, Highland, McMunn & Varner, Clarksburg, for Petitioners.

Robert P. Fitzsimmons, Thomas C. Schultz, Michael W. McGuane, Wheeling, for Respondents.

PER CURIAM:1

West Virginia Fire and Casualty Company (hereinafter "Fire and Casualty") seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the release of claims files in infant settlement cases, as ordered by the Circuit Court of Marshall County. Fire and Casualty maintains that disclosure of such documentation would violate the privacy rights of non-litigant individuals. Balancing the privacy rights of the unrelated non-litigants against the discovery...

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