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Punitive damages for disclosure of protected health info?

Punitive damages for disclosure of protected health info?

Punitive damages for disclosure of protected health info?

A federal District Court in Philadelphia has rejected a motion to dismiss claims for punitive damages against a healthcare system, a hospital within the system, the director of the hospital’s emergency department and an emergency room nurse who allegedly disclosed protected health information about a police officer injured in an automobile accident. The officer and his wife claimed damages from disclosure to superiors in his department. Officer Stanley Boatright was injured in an accident and brought by emergency personnel to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, where he was admitted as a patient. The head of the emergency department, who knew Boatright’s superior officers as either friends or...

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