Fanean v. RITE AID CORP. OF DELAWARE, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing anxiety and depression as physical injuries and denying motion to dismiss
• finding that allegations of depression and anxiety are recoverable physical injuries
• reaffirming the Court’s earlier decision that the plaintiff could not raise a negligence per se claim under HIPAA
• denying motion to dismiss intentional infliction of emotional distress claim, despite plaintiff’s absence, where defendant pharmacy disclosed plaintiff’s confidential health information to plaintiff’s relatives, directly causing emotional damage to plaintiff
• “The deciding factor is whether the employer had or should have had knowledge of the necessity to exercise control over its employee.”
• “[T]he focus of this tort is on the intrusion.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).