§ RULE 35 PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXAMINATION OF PERSONS
RULE 35. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXAMINATION OF PERSONS
(a) 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 or person to submit to a physical or mental examination by a suitably licensed or certified examiner or to produce for examination the person in the party's custody or legal control, unless the party is unable to produce the person for examination. 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.
(b) Report of examining physician.
(b)(1) If requested by a party against whom an order is made under Rule 35(a) or the person examined, the party causing the examination to be made shall deliver to the person examined and/or the other party a copy of a detailed written report of the examiner setting out the examiner's findings, including results of all tests made, diagnosis 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 that the report cannot be obtained. The court on motion may order delivery of a report on such terms as are just. If an examiner fails or refuses to make a report, the court on motion may take any action authorized by Rule 37(b)(2).
(b)(2) By requesting and obtaining a report of the examination so ordered or by taking the deposition of the examiner, the party examined waives any privilege the party may have in that action or any other involving the same controversy, regarding the testimony of every other person who has examined or may thereafter examine the party in respect of the same mental or physical condition.
(b)(3) This subdivision applies to examinations made by agreement of the parties, unless the agreement expressly provides otherwise. This subdivision does not preclude discovery of a report of any other examiner or the taking of a deposition of an examiner in accordance with the provisions of any other rule.
(c) Right of party examined to other medical reports. At the time of making an order to submit to an examination under Subdivision (a), the court shall, upon motion of the party to be examined, order the party seeking such examination to furnish to the party to be examined a report of any examination previously made or medical treatment previously given by any examiner employed directly or indirectly by the party seeking the order for a physical or mental examination, or at whose instance or request such medical examination or treatment has previously been conducted.
(d) Sanctions.
(d)(1) If a party or a person in the custody or under the legal control of a party fails to obey an order entered under Subdivision (a), the court on motion may take any action authorized by Rule 37(b)(2), except that the failure cannot be treated as contempt of court.
(d)(2) If a party fails to obey an order entered under Subdivision (c), the court on motion may take any action authorized by Rule 37(b)(2).