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KENTUCKY
RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
RULE 35 PHYSICAL
AND MENTAL EXAMINATION OF PERSONS
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35.01 ORDER FOR EXAMINATION
When the mental or physical condition (including the blood group) of
a party, or of a person in the custody or under the legal control of
a party, is in controversy, the court in which the action is pending
may order the party to submit to a physical or mental examination by
a physician, dentist or appropriate health care expert, or to
produce for examination the person in his custody or legal control.
The order may be made only on motion for good cause shown and upon
notice to the person to be examined and to all parties and shall
specify the time, place, manner, conditions, and scope of the
examination and the person or persons by whom it is to be made.
[Amended by
Order 91-2, eff. 11-15-91; prior amendment eff. 10-1-71; adopted eff.
7-1-53]
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35.02 REPORT OF EXAMINING PHYSICIAN OR HEALTH CARE EXPERT
(1) If requested by the party against whom an order is made under
Rule 35.01 or the person examined, the party causing the examination
to be made shall deliver to that person or party a copy of a
detailed written report of the examining health care expert setting
out all findings, including results of all tests made, diagnoses and
conclusions, together with like reports of all earlier examinations
of the same condition. After delivery, the party causing the
examination shall be entitled upon request to receive from the party
against whom the order is made a like report of any examination,
previously or thereafter made, of the same condition, unless, in the
case of a report of examination of a person not a party, the party
shows an inability to obtain it. The court on motion may make an
order against a party requiring delivery of a report on such terms
as are just, and if a physician or examining health care expert
fails or refuses to make a report the court may exclude such
testimony if offered at the trial.
(2) This rule applies to examinations made by agreement of the
parties, unless the agreement expressly provides otherwise. This
rule does not preclude discovery of a report of an examining
physician or health care expert or the taking of a deposition of the
physician or health care expert in accordance with the provisions of
any other rule.
[Amended by
Order 91-2, eff. 11-15-91; prior amendment eff. 10-1-71; adopted eff.
7-1-53]
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