By Cory Lapin ( November 1, 2017, 2:53 PM EDT) -- Since 2004, the Florida Supreme Court has examined a series of objections raised by defendants to avoid producing records of "adverse medical incidents." In each case, the court has found that Amendment 7 to the Florida Constitution, which grants broad rights of record access to medical patients, abrogates any Florida statute that would otherwise prohibit discovery, including statutes that previously exempted from discovery any records of investigations, proceedings and/or peer review panels. Undaunted, defendants have continued to object to Amendment 7 discovery requests, using new and refined theories in response to each court decision. On Oct. 26, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court appeared to have put an end to many of these creative defense tactics in Edwards v. Thomas....