Physician-patient Privilege
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Colorado justices uphold confidentiality of truck driver’s medical records after fatal crash
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the surviving family members of a deceased motorist may obtain the other driver’s narrative of what happened, but they cannot do it through the medical records generated from his post-accident hospital visit. Relatives of Timothy Trenshaw sought to use five sentences from the notes of an emergency…
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Colorado justices debate what to do with medical records of driver following fatal Custer County crash
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The Colorado Supreme Court waded into a contentious dispute on Wednesday about how trial judges should decide whether a litigant’s medical records are confidential and what to do with other evidence that spawns from the private information. Complicating matters, many details about the appeal are shielded from public view due to the debate over confidentiality.…
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Is Colorado’s Supreme Court about to hold oral arguments in secret?
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The Colorado Supreme Court may take the rare, potentially unprecedented move of holding oral arguments in secret next week, after the parties to a civil case have asked that members of the public be excluded from viewing the proceedings. On Feb. 12, the justices are scheduled to hear Jennings v. Trenshaw, a personal injury case out…