COVEN v. LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER


2 A.D.3d 767 (2003)

769 N.Y.S.2d 412

NYISHA COVEN, Appellant, v. LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER, Respondent, et al., Defendants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 29, 2003.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The supervision of disclosure to prevent abuse lies within the discretion of the trial court, and, absent an improvident exercise of that discretion, its determination will not be disturbed (see Kaplan v Herbstein, 175 A.D.2d 200 [1991]). In this case, where the plaintiff sought to obtain the medical records of another patient, the court providently exercised its discretion...

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