WILLARD v. STATE

No. 16-1009.

893 N.W.2d 52 (2017)

Dennis WILLARD, Appellee, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed April 7, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Thompson , Solicitor General, and Forrest Guddall (until withdrawal) and Anne Updegraff , Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.

Matt J. Reilly of Eells & Tronvold Law Offices, PLC, Cedar Rapids, for appellee.

Erika Eckley , Des Moines , and T. Randall Wright of Baird Holm LLP, Omaha, Nebraska, for amicus curiae Iowa Hospital Association.

Paul Drey , Jeanine Freeman , and Allison M. Steuterman of Brick Gentry, P.C., West Des Moines, for amici curiae American Medical Association and Iowa Medical Society.


In this interlocutory appeal, we are asked to determine whether a hospital's Patient Safety Net materials are protected under the morbidity and mortality privilege, and whether this information is discoverable in this medical negligence action. Dennis Willard was seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident in Davenport, Iowa. After...

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