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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Lol.
If someone gets a cancer traceable to a particular tortfeasor his or her phone will get more phone calls from plaintiffs' lawyers than most of us get about our car warranty. The phone (coincidentally, linked to the number given to the hospital) will literally melt from such calls.
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Hospitals leak that info to plaintiff's counsel? That's a straight up violation of HIPAA (and probably several other statutes and common law torts).
Aren't firms afraid of using that info? I could see a criminal investigator looking into that sort of leaking. One would assume the firm was somehow paying off people in the hospital for the info. Why else would someone in health care risk their job and possible civil or maybe criminal sanction?
