Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Judge limits request for medical records in Kinser lawsuit

CHARLESTON -- Though a judge quashed a subpoena for a Kanawha County woman's entire medical history in a personal injury suit she filed against WVU Tech, he ordered she'll still have to turn over records related to treatment for her alleged injury.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Louis H. "Duke" Bloom on May 1 accepted the April 23 recommendation of Bruce Freeman that a subpoena WVU Tech's lawyers sent to Charleston Area Medical Center requesting the medical charts of Marilyn L. Kinser from her date of birth until March 6 be quashed. Bloom appointed Freeman as a special commissioner to conduct discovery on March 16 after Kinser's attorney, Shawn R. Romano, filed a motion to quash three days earlier.

For more on this story, go to The West Virginia Record