Tort claims against health care providers for breach of confidentiality.
In 1920, in the case of Simonsen v. Swenson, the Nebraska Supreme Court recognized in principle that a patient could file suit for money damages against his physician for the wrongful disclosure of confidential information. Since then a growing number of American states have allowed patients to bring such claims. In this article, the author discusses the nature of these breach-of-medical-confidence claims and some of the problems which attend them.
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