Pierce v. Caday

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “the alleged breach of duty of confidentiality sounds in tort....”
• addressing the duty of non-disclosure and stating that \we easily could adopt\ a tort remedy but finding it \unnecessary ... to recognize expressly the existence of such a cause of action in Virginia in order to decide this case\
• alleged breach of the duty of confidentiality constituted \malpractice\ under a statute governing \any tort based on health care\
• alleged breach of the duty of confidentiality constituted “malpractice” under a statute governing “any tort based on health care”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).