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MAT-SU VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER v. BOLINDER

Supreme Court Nos. S-15920/15969 (Consolidated) Supreme Court No. S-16440.

427 P.3d 754 (2018)

MAT-SU VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, LLC, d/b/a Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, Petitioner, v. Denise BOLINDER, as personal representative of the estate of Robert Bolinder, and John W. Zwiacher, M.D., Respondents. Mat-Su Valley Medical Center, LLC, d/b/a Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, and John W. Zwiacher, M.D., Petitioners, v. Jon Paul Brandt, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Dickson , Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, and Roger F. Holmes , Biss & Holmes, Anchorage, for Petitioner Mat-Su Regional Medical Center.

Christian N. Bataille , Flanigan & Bataille, Anchorage, for Respondents Bolinder and Brandt.

Scott Leuning , Leuning & Renner, LLC, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Whitney L. Traeger and Howard A. Lazar , Delaney Wiles, Inc., Anchorage, for Respondent and Petitioner Dr. Zwiacher.

Stephen D. Rose , Garvey Schubert Barer, Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association.

Chester D. Gilmore , Cashion Gilmore LLC, Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Providence Health & Services — Washington d/b/a Providence Alaska Medical Center.

Margaret Simonian , Dillon & Findley, P.C., Anchorage, and William S. Cummings , Friedman Rubin, Bremerton, Washington, for Amicus Curiae Alaska Association for Justice.

Before: Stowers, Chief Justice, Winfree, Maassen, Bolger, and Carney, Justices.

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

Alaska's medical peer review privilege statute, AS 18.23.030, protects discovery of data, information, proceedings, and records of medical peer review organizations, but it does not protect a witness's personal knowledge and observations or materials originating outside the medical peer...

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