Opinion ID: 2392893
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: dismissal or summary judgment based on qualified immunity

Text: Although the trial court expressed concern that, without the information from the peer review and executive committee meetings, Dr. Peasley would virtually be unable to support the claims set forth in his complaint, it is noted that KRS 311.377(3) provides that: Nothing in subsection (2) of this section shall be construed to restrict or limit the right to discover or use in any civil action or other administrative proceeding any evidence, document, or record which is subject to discovery independently of the proceedings of the entity to which subsection (1) of this section refers. Since discovery has not been completed in the trial court and the hospitals have not demonstrated that they will have no adequate remedy on appeal, relief in the form of an extraordinary remedy under CR 76.36 is not appropriate. National Gypsum Co. v. Corns, Ky., 736 S.W.2d 325, 327 (1987). For the foregoing reasons, the remainder of the Court of Appeals order denying the hospital's remaining Motion for Writs of Prohibition and Mandamus relating to Summary Judgment is affirmed. STEPHENS, C.J., and SPAIN, REYNOLDS and WINTERSHEIMER, JJ., concur. Special Justice WILLIAM R. WEINBERG concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion in which LEIBSON, J., joins. LAMBERT and STUMBO, JJ., not sitting.