People v. Heck

How courts have described this case

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• reversing grant of summary judgment and finding action for breach of confidence sustainable against healthcare corporation
• “[Although plaintiff employs the term negligence in the first cause of action, its gravaman [sic] is fundamentally the breach of the fiduciary duty of confidentiality.”
• disclosure of plaintiffs medical records by medical corporation not sufficiently extreme and outrageous
• “[T]he duty not to disclose confidential personal information springs from the implied covenant of trust and confidence that is inherent in the physician-patient relationship, the breach of which is actionable as a tort.”
• disclosure of patient’s medical records was not sufficiently extreme and outrageous
• disclosure of patient’s medical records was not sufficiently extreme and outrageous

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