physician-patient privilege

Prosecutors are asking that physician-patient privilege be waived so they can access medical records for JoAnn Cunningham, contending information about her drug use could relate to the April beating death of her 5-year old son, AJ Freund.

The state appealed the suppression order, saying that the statutory physician-patient privilege does not apply.

Zeitner made the same argument on appeal, arguing her physician-patient privilege was violated when her medical records were admitted to the court and her physicians allowed to testify against her.

1991) (finding that after a filing of medical malpractice any physician-patient privilege is waived for that action); Trans-World Invs.

TMZ.com had previously reported that estate lawyer, Howard Weitzman, had fired off a cease and desist letter to Murray, saying that his recent comments to the media about Jackson's medical treatment violate the physician-patient privilege under California law.

We wish to make clear, however, that she was still bound by her physician-patient privilege with Mrs.

violations by falling back on the physician-patient privilege. (2) Of

COURT'S OPINION: The Supreme Court of Florida held that the law creates a broad and expansive physician-patient privilege of confidentiality for the patient's personal information with only limited, defined exceptions.

From this point forward, any search warrant seeking medical records subject to the physician-patient privilege must order the hospital or medical provider to produce the medical records in a reasonable period of time under seal and for review by the Court in confidence.

The legislature created the physician-patient privilege "where none existed before," and provided for an explicit but limited scheme for the disclosure of personal medical information.

No federal physician-patient privilege exists, and the existence and scope of such a privilege varies across states.

(3) Dismissing the Appellate Division's finding that the psychologist-patient privilege is "no broader" than the physician-patient privilege, (4) the court implied that had Wilkins spoken with a psychiatrist, rather than a psychologist, such testimony would have been admitted and the entire outcome of the case completely different.