The doctor’s assay could abutment Herzer’s altercation that Redstone is no best mentally competent. Herzer, 51, managed Sumner’s domiciliary diplomacy and his circadian affliction until mid-October, if she was booted from Redstone’s abode in Beverly Park. She aswell was removed from her arresting position as the abettor in allegation of Redstone’s beforehand healthcare charge should the mogul become incapacitated.
Cowan, in a acting cardinal on Friday, wrote it was abandoned fair that doctors on both abandon of the acknowledged altercation be accustomed to appraise Sumner Redstone. Two doctors who amusement him accept already testified.
Sumner Redstone’s accent pathologist and his assistant can be present during the exam. Los Angeles County Superior Cloister Adjudicator David J. Cowan said an assay by a third doctor, Dr. Stephen Read, who was called by Herzer and her attorneys, could not be videotaped.
“We are adequate that Adjudicator Cowan addled an candid antithesis that assures our applicant has a fair befalling to prove that her admired Sumner was not competent if the attorneys had him abolish her as his bloom caregiver,” Herzer’s attorney, Pierce O’Donnell, said in a statement.
The adjudicator already afresh denied a appeal from Herzer and her attorneys that Redstone accommodate affidavit affidavit in a deposition. “We are adequate that the cloister continues to adios Ms. Herzer’s more atrocious and artful attempts to depose Mr. Redstone,” Sumner’s attorney, Gabrielle Vidal, said in a account afterwards a cloister hearing.
In Cowan’s acting ruling, the adjudicator wrote: “The cloister grants Herzer the befalling for Dr. Read to go to Redstone’s home, or for Redstone to go to Dr. Read’s appointment if Redstone prefers, for a one hour account by Dr. Read alone, after Herzer or any of her attorneys or others on her account present.”
Herzer has testified that she is anxious about Redstone’s bloom and his medical care.
Judge Cowan said the medical appraisal should not accommodation Sumner Redstone aloofness or dignity. He added that Redstone should not face a deposition.
Redstone is the controlling administrator of Viacom and CBS, and controls about 80 percent of the voting banal in the two companies. While the accusation apropos his claimed life, the cloister action has aloft questions about whether he should abide in his roles at the two companies.
New authoritative filings on Friday showed that he now has a beneath role at Viacom. The aggregation bargain Redstone’s anniversary pay by 85 percent during the 2015 budgetary year to $2 million, from $13 actor the antecedent year.
When Sumner Redstone replaced Herzer as his healthcare proxy in mid-October, the billionaire aswell allegedly revoked “part of his acreage plan whereby he had ahead larboard a actual cogent sum of money to Herzer,” the cloister cardinal said. “Sumner asked Manuela, and she promised, to affliction for and assure him for the blow of his life,” O’Donnell said. “Today’s achievement is a above anniversary in anniversary her commitment.”
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