Opinion ID: 2402231
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 11

Heading: Severance of Negligent Credentialing Claim

Text: Doctor Samson requests that this Court also address the legal issue of whether the negligent credentialing claim should be severed from the rest of the negligence claims. Although this separate motion was heard simultaneously with arguments pertaining to the various privileges, we decline the opportunity to expound on this point of law in the context of this writ of certiorari. The motion justice denied the hospital's motion for severance without prejudice. This is in stark contrast to the discovery-related issues, where, if we had not granted this petition for writ of certiorari and had allowed the discovery process to continue, then any subsequent decision by this Court concluding that some of the documents were privileged would have been too little, too late. Although we certainly do not deem the idea of severance in this context to be frivolous, we will limit this opinion to those privilege-related matters.