Starting this fall, personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys no longer will have to file boxes and boxes of their clients’ confidential medical records with courts when they need to use the records as evidence in a trial.
Instead, an amended evidentiary rule says that medical records would need “no extrinsic evidence of authenticity” to be admitted in court, as long as a certain form of affidavit accompanied the records and one party served the affidavit and records on his opposing party at least 30 days before admitting them at trial.
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