A plaintiff’s treating physician is not required to provide answers to a series of defense interrogatories if he was not independently retained by plaintiffs counsel, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled upon reconsideration.
In an April 14 decision in Mina v. Hua Mei, Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge Robert A. Mazzoni vacated a Jan. 6 ruling that had ordered Dr. Joseph Chun to respond to 16 expert interrogatories posed by the defense. Mazonni acknowledged that the court had “erroneously placed its entire focus on whether the language of Dr. Chun’s opinions opened the gate for further supplemental discovery.”
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