Plaintiffs Approved Medical MalPractice Interrogatories To Defendant Corporation

PLAINTIFFS APPROVED MEDICAL MAL-PRACTICE INTERROGATORIES TO DEFENDANT (CORPORATION) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS STATE OF MISSOURI___________________, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) Cause No. ____________ vs. ) ) Division No. ________________________, ) ) Defendant. ) PLAINTIFFS INTERROGATORIES DIRECTED TO DEFENDANT Comes not plaintiff, by and through his/her attorneys, and submits thefollowing interrogatories to be answered by this defendant as provided by law: DEFINITION Whenever in these Interrogatories you are requested to identify someperson, corporation or other organizations, please provide name, address, andtelephone number. 1. State whether or not this defendant is being sued in its full and correct name. If not, state the full and correct name of this defendant. ANSWER: 2. Please state the name and present business address of each and every individual who supplied information used to answer these interrogatories and identify his, her, or their legal capacity within defendants corporate administration. ANSWER: 3. Please state whether or not [individual doctor, nurse, etc.] was this defendants employee, agent, or servant at [the time and place of the occurrence described in plaintiffs petition], and if not, please state the following: <<<<<<<<<********>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2 PLAINTIFFS APPROVED MEDICAL MAL-PRACTICE INTERROGATORIES TO DEFENDANT (CORPORATION) (a) How their services were charged to plaintiff; (b) How [individual doctor, nurse, etc.] was paid or reimbursed by this defendant for any of [individual doctor, nurse, etc.] services performed on or provided to plaintiff; (c) Whether or not this defendant deducted any social security, income tax, or any other deductions of any kind from [individual doctor, nurse, etc.] remuneration? (d) Whether there are or were any written contracts, agreements of employment, or indemnification agreements for such services in existence. If so, in whose custody are they are the present time? ANSWER: 4. Please state whether or not [individual doctor, nurse, etc.] maintained any type of staff privileges whereby he/she would be allowed to admit patients and render treatment thereto while inpatients of your facilities, and if your answer to this interrogatory is yes, please state the following: (a) The exact nature of staff privileges granted; (b) Whether those privileges were limited to any particular areas of medicine or specialties in medicine; (c) Whether or not those privileges included [e.g., surgical] privileges, and if so, please state the general nature and subject matter of the areas or specialties in which those [e.g., surgical] privileges were granted; and (d) Please describe the manner or method in which staff privileges are granted by defendant to physicians. ANSWER: 5. State whether or not, following the date of the occurrence mentioned in the petition in this case, a statement, interview, or report, or a stenographic, mechanical, electrical, audio, video, motion picture, photograph or other recording, or transcription thereof, of the plaintiff, or of a statement made by the plaintiff and contemporaneously recorded, has been secured from plaintiff or taken of plaintiff; if so, state the following: (a) Date, place, and time taken; 2<<<<<<<<<********>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3 PLAINTIFFS APPROVED MEDICAL MAL-PRACTICE INTERROGATORIES TO DEFENDANT (CORPORATION) (b) Name and address of the person or persons connected with taking it; (c) Names and addresses of all persons present at the time it was taken; (d) Whether the statement was oral, written, shorthand, recorded, taped, etc.; (e) Was it signed? (f) Names and addresses of the persons or organizations under whose direction and upon whose behalf it was taken or made; (g) Please attach an exact copy of the original of said statement, interview, report, film, or tape to your answers to these interrogatories; if oral, please state verbatim the contents thereof. ANSWER: 6. Identify each person by name, address, occupation, place of employment and qualifications to give an opinion, who the defendant expects to call as an expert witness with respect to any aspect of the suit and state the general nature of the subject matter on which the expert is expected to testify, and the experts hourly deposition fee. [The experts curriculum vitae may be attached to the interrogatory answers in lieu of stating the qualifications of the expert to give an opinion if such information is available on the experts curriculum vitae.] ANSWER: 7. Identify any insurance agreement under which any person carrying an insurance business may be liable to satisfy part or all of a judgment which may be entered in the action or to indemnify or reimburse for payments made to satisfy the judgment, including any excess coverage or umbrella coverage, and with respect to each, please state: (a) The type of insurance which gives rise to the interest, including but not limited to whether excess or primary; (b) Limits of coverage; (c) Effective policy period; 3<<<<<<<<<********>>>>>>>>>>>>> 4 PLAINTIFFS APPROVED MEDICAL MAL-PRACTICE INTERROGATORIES TO DEFENDANT (CORPORATION) (d) Whether there exists medical pay coverage in addition to coverage listed in (a) above, and if so, the amount; (e) Policy number; (f) Identity of all insureds; (g) Insurers identity; and (h) Is a reservation of rights being made? (i) Attach a complete copy of the declaration page and policy of any insurance agreement identified. ANSWER: 8. Identify all records the defendant has which pertain to care and treatment of plaintiff (or plaintiffs decedent) including (select appropriate types: charts, ultrasounds, fetal monitoring strips, x-ray films, C.T. scans, M.R.I. scans, PET scans, nuclear scans, EEGs, EKGs, arteriograms, doppler reports/data, photographs, videotapes, molds, microscopic slides, tissue blocks, or _______). With respect to those records, please state: (a) Identify who kept the above designated records, where they were kept, and state whether they were kept as part of the standard business practice of the defendant; (i) Were the entries made by the defendant, or the defendants office personnel, made at or near the time of the facts recorded? (ii) Describe any alterations in the record, or any record additions, subtractions, or changes in entries wherein, the alterations, additions, subtractions, or changes in entries were not made at or near the time of the original facts recorded. (iii) Were any records lost, misplaced, or destroyed, or are a