{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-41-15","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-41-15","heading":"Filing of claim as waiver of physician-patient confidentiality; ordering mental or physical examination or autopsy.","body":"(1) Any person filing a claim under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to have waived any physician-patient privilege as to the communications or records relevant to an issue of the physical, mental or emotional conditions of the claimant. However, any record or report obtained by the director, the confidentiality of which is otherwise protected by any other law or regulation, shall remain confidential, subject to such law or regulation.\n(2) If the mental, physical or emotional condition of a claimant is material to a claim, the director, upon good cause shown, may order the claimant to submit to a mental or physical examination and may order an autopsy of a deceased victim. The order shall specify the time, place, manner, conditions and scope of the examination or autopsy and the person by whom it is to be made. The order shall also require the person to file with the director a detailed written report of the examination or autopsy. The report shall set out the findings of the person making the report, including the results of all tests made, the diagnosis, prognosis and other conclusions and reports of earlier examinations of the same conditions.\n(3) The director shall furnish a copy of the report examined. If the victim is deceased the director shall furnish a copy of the report to the claimant on request.\n(4) The director may require the claimant to supply any additional medical or psychological reports available relating to the injury or death for which compensation is claimed.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 41. Mississippi Crime Victims’ Compensation Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.99.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:13Z","sha256":"dca4a66cc68f146e58e2594db05f9e19c84d9cc14c3ab4285d44a5b9b77615db","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-41-13","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-41-17","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}