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ACCORDING TO THE MEDICAL RECORDS, PLAINTIFF PROVIDED HER TREATING PHYSICIAN WITH A DESCRIPTION OF HER SLIP AND FALL WHICH DIFFERED FROM HER DESCRIPTION IN HER DEPOSITION TESTIMONY; PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO QUASH THE SUBPOENA SERVED ON THE PHYSICIAN SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s motion to quash the subpoena served on plaintiff’s treating physician, Dr. Monfett, in this slip and fall case should not have been granted. The medical records revealed plaintiff told the treating physician she tripped and fell breaking up a fight in a subway station. Plaintiff testified she fell because of a broken sidewalk in front of defendant’s building. The court noted that the statement in the medical record may be inadmissible hearsay without the physician’s testimony linking the statement to the plaintiff:

Dr. Monfett’s deposition is material and necessary to the defense because plaintiff’s account of her accident to the doctor conflicts with her deposition testimony, and this discrepancy bears directly on defendants’ potential liability, as well as plaintiff’s credibility … . Furthermore, the deposition is necessary because plaintiff’s statements in the medical record likely would be inadmissible as hearsay without the doctor’s testimony attributing them to her … . Defendants were not required to demonstrate “special circumstances” warranting Dr. Monfett’s deposition because they seek to depose him “solely with regard to plaintiff’s account of the accident, not for any expert medical opinion regarding plaintiff’s diagnosis or treatment” … . Ogando v 40 X Owner LLC, 2024 NY Slip Op 05491, First Dept 11-7-24

Practice Point: Here defendants subpoenaed plaintiff’s treating physician because the statement attributed to plaintiff in her medical records differed from her description of the trip and fall in her deposition testimony. The defendants were not seeking to depose the physician as an expert concerning plaintiff’s diagnosis or treatment, but rather were focused on plaintiff’s apparently conflicting account of the accident, which would be inadmissible hearsay without the physician’s testimony.

 

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