Producing hospital bills, alone, does not satisfy discovery requirements of Rule 9.

The defendant filed a motion to compel the plaintiff’s responses to the defendant’s Rule 9(g) request and other discovery requests. The night before the motion, the plaintiff sent responses to the other discovery requests, including medical bills. At the hearing, the plaintiff argued that the records sent the night before, along some additional medical records and bills, satisfied the outstanding Rule 9(g) request. The court disagreed and clarified that Rule 9(g) requires a written statement of the damages claimed. Producing hospital bills, alone, did not satisfy the requirements of Rule 9. The motion to compel was granted.

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