Marietta Gelanie Jones v. William Anthony Kitchen

Summary

The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals, holding that the federal patient‑safety work‑product privilege shields the entire Root Cause Analysis but not the Incident Report, and that a writ of prohibition is proper to protect the privileged analysis while no writ is warranted for the Incident Report. The decision rests on statutory definitions and the documents’ purposes, and it applies a de novo standard of review to the privilege determinations.