Wyatt v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a breach of patient-doctor confidentiality is an action in negligence, not malpractice
• nurse's disclosure of confidential information was not a \medical injury\ as defined in the Arkansas statute governing malpractice by medical providers
• nurse’s disclosure of confidential information was not a “medical injury” as defined in the Arkansas statute governing malpractice by medical providers
• “Where the matter requires the consideration of the professional skill and knowledge of the practitioner of the medical facility, the more specialized theory of medical malpractice applies.” (quoting Barrillo v. Beekman Downtown Hosp., 146 A.D.2d 734, 537 N.Y.S.2d 219 (1989))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).