Jasopersaud v. Tao Gyoun Rho

In Jasopersaud v. Tao Gyoun Rho, 169 A.D.2d 184, defendant, in seeking disclosure of the plaintiff's expert's qualifications, demanded the medical school and date of graduation, location and date of internship, residence and fellowships, medical specialty, board certifications, locations and dates of license to practice medicine and hospital affiliations. The plaintiff argued that providing this detailed information would, in effect, reveal the expert's identity. Seeking to achieve a balance between"the legislative intent to materially expand discovery regarding experts, with its concerns that requested information would effectively enable determining the expert's identity," the court compelled the disclosure of the expert's medical school, board certification, residence, fellowship, area of expertise, jurisdiction of license and locations of internship, residence and fellowship. (Jasopersaud v. Tao Gyon Rho, supra, at 165.) The Court, however, allowed both the date associated with these qualifications and the expert's present hospital affiliation to be concealed, lest such information might reveal the expert's identity. (Id.)