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Criminal

Oct. 17, 2006

Court of Appeal's Ruling Narrows Patient's 'Zone of Privacy'

FORUM COLUMN - By Leila Narvid - Patient-litigants may soon find themselves having to disclose far more medical information than they ever anticipated.


Forum Column

By Leila Narvid

     
      Patient-litigants may soon find themselves having to disclose far more medical information than they ever anticipated. In California Consumer Health Care Council v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, (2006) 142 Cal.App.4th 21, the 1st District Court of Appeal recently ruled that health care providers may make wholesale disclosures of medical informat...

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