Fired attorney wins $1.3 million verdict 
By:
David Donovan
Published: January 14, 2013
Tags: background check, breach of confidentiality, confidentiality
When Waverly Partners, a Charlotte, N.C.-based executive headhunting firm, reached out to attorney Shawn Smith about a position it was trying to fill, she says she warned them that her job would be in jeopardy if her supervisors found out she was interviewing for other jobs.
It turned out she was right.
HIPAA doesn’t protect hospital for wrongful disclosure
Published: November 26, 2012
Tags: breach of confidentiality, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, HIPAA, invasion of privacy, medical privacy, negligence
Federal medical privacy law does not preempt a lawsuit against a hospital that wrongfully disclosed a patient’s mental health records to his estranged wife, West Virginia’s highest court has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
