90 A.D.2d 846 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1982
In a medical malpractice action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau .County (Murphy, J.), dated March 8,1982, which denied their motion to vacate plaintiffs’ notice for discovery and inspection of accident reports made to their medical malpractice insurance carrier and/or their representatives with respect to plaintiffs’ claim. Order reversed, with $50 costs and disbursements, and motion granted. Any written “accident and/or incident reports” which may have been made by the defendants “to their malpractice insurance carrier and/or their representatives with respect to the [underlying] claim,” constitute, at the minimum, materials prepared for litigation and are conditionally exempt from disclosure under CPLR 3101 (subd [d]) (Kandel v Tocher, 22 AD2d 513; Finegold v Lewis, 22 AD2d 447). Pataki v Kiseda 80 AD2d 100, mot for lv to app dsmd 54 NY2d 831) and Chaplin v Pathmark Supermarkets (107 Misc 2d 541) are not to the contrary, as both concerned the discoverability of “any
