Bratt v. International Business MacHines Corp.

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• recognizing that, while a physician-patient relationship is not created when the employer hires the physician, there nonetheless remains the duty to “exercise reasonable care and skill in their relationship with the employees”
• concluding that corporation may be held liable for intracorporate disclosure of private facts giving rise to invasion of privacy claim under G. L. c. 214, § 1B
• explaining that invasion of privacy requires “disclosure of facts about an individual that are of a highly personal or intimate nature when there exists no legitimate, countervailing interest”
• recognizing “a patient’s valid interest in preserving the confidentiality of medical facts relayed to a physician”
• recognizing a patient’s valid interest in preserving the confidentiality of medical facts relayed to physician
• stating that intracorporate communication constituted sufficient disclosure to violate § IB

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