A panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals has affirmed trial judges’ discretion to decline to allow medical malpractice defendants to privately interview plaintiffs’ treating physicians without getting the plaintiffs’ permission.
Two years ago, the state Supreme Court unanimously agreed that such informal interviews between med-mal defense lawyers and doctors who aren’t being sued could occur, so long as the lawyers received a court order that set certain parameters.
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