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Split Court of Appeals Disagrees Over “Good Cause” Requirement to Compel Independent Medical Examinations and Articulates Scope of Trial Court’s “Discretion” to Deny IME Requests

on June 26, 2013May 12, 2020 By Carson J Tucker, JD MSEL

In this published 2-1 opinion (Murray, Boonstra, JJ, majority; M.J. Kelly, dissenting), the Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's denial of the defendant's request to compel plaintiff to submit to several new "independent medical examinations" (a/k/a "IME's") in her no-fault automobile suit against them. The opinion contains much commentary on the accepted practice of [...]