HB35 Alabama 2015 1st Special Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Tim Wadsworth Representative

Republican

Session

First Special Session 2015

Title

Medical records, requests for, release to trial court or attorney of record, Secs. 12-21-5, 12-21-6, 12-21-7 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, copies of hospital records are admissible as evidence in judicial trials.

Under existing law, a custodian of hospital records who receives a subpoena from a litigant in a court trial in Alabama for hospital records must copy the records and forward the records to the court clerk for admission at trial.

This bill would allow a litigant to request records from a medical provider, as defined, including itemization of charges, and would allow the custodian of those records to process the request and deliver the records to the litigant, the court clerk for admission at trial, or to an attorney of record for a trial involving the records.

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Subjects

Records