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SUBPOENA SEEKING 1099 FORMS SHOWING THE INSURER’S PAYMENTS TO TWO DOCTORS WHO PERFORM MEDICAL EXAMS FOR THE INSURER IN PERSONAL INJURY CASES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN QUASHED; WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBPOENA FOR THE MEDICAL RECORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXAMS, THAT ISSUE WAS NOT ADDRESSED BY SUPREME COURT AND CAN NOT, THEREFORE, BE ADDRESSED ON APPEAL (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Supreme Court, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Garry addressing a matter of first impression in the Third Department, determined the plaintiffs’ subpoena seeking 1099 forms (encompassing several years) issued by the insurer to the two doctors (Seigel and Hughes) who performed the medical examination of the plaintiff in this traffic accident case should not have been quashed. The payment records may provide information relevant to the doctors’ bias in favor of denying coverage. However the subpoena for the medical records for the examinations conducted by the two doctors was not addressed by the motion court and therefore could not be addressed on appeal:

The CPLR extends “full disclosure of all matters material and necessary in the prosecution or defense of an action” to nonparties (CPLR 3101 [a] [4] …). “The words, ‘material and necessary,’ are . . . to be interpreted liberally to require disclosure, upon request, of any facts bearing on the controversy which will assist preparation for trial by sharpening the issues and reducing delay and prolixity. The test is one of usefulness and reason” … . “A subpoena will be quashed only where the futility of the process to uncover anything legitimate is inevitable or obvious or where the information sought is utterly irrelevant to any proper inquiry” … . …

… [T]he 1099 forms that plaintiffs seek would disclose the amount of compensation that Siegel and Hughes received for performing evaluations on defendant’s behalf and, with questioning, may reveal a financial incentive that the physicians have in testifying. A financial incentive is a relevant consideration in “ascertain[ing] any possible bias or interest on the part of [the physicians]” … . Given the liberal interpretation afforded the terms “material and … necessary” used in the CPLR … , and the general acceptance of testing a witness for bias and interest , we thus find that the financial records are discoverable … . Loiselle v Progressive Cas. Ins. Co., 2020 NY Slip Op 06325, Third Dept 11-5-20

 

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