Mellow v. Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Ass'n of Rhode Island

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• holding that policy covered insured for defamation arising from release of blood alcohol readings taken by physician rendering professional services
• malpractice insurer must defend invasion of privacy suit based on physician's release of blood-alcohol test results that were subsequently obtained by a newspaper
• patient's humiliation, shame, emotional distress, and mental anguish as a result of physician's disclosure of patient's blood alcohol level to public not \bodily injury\ within the physician's homeowner's policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).