New York A 1215: Enacts the "patient privacy protection act"

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A01215 Summary:

BILL NOA01215 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORDinowitz

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COSPNSRWeprin, Carroll R, Colton, Jacobson, Simon

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3102, CPLR

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Enacts the "patient privacy protection act"; prohibits ex-parte interviews of other party's treating physicians or health care providers in personal injury, medical, dental, or podiatric malpractice, or wrongful death actions.

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01/09/2025referred to judiciary

01/07/2026referred to judiciary

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1215

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, WEPRIN, R. CARROLL, COLTON, JACOBSON,
 SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to enact-
 ing the "patient privacy protection act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "patient privacy protection act".
 3 § 2. Section 3102 of the civil practice law and rules is amended by
 4 adding a new subdivision (c-1) to read as follows:
 5 (c-1) Ex-parte interviews. In any action involving personal injury,
 6 medical, dental or podiatric malpractice, or wrongful death, no party or
 7 anyone acting on behalf of a party may either directly or indirectly
 8 conduct ex-parte interviews with the treating physicians or other health
 9 care providers of any other party. Nothing in this subdivision shall
 10 prohibit an attorney or the agent or employee of an attorney who repres-
 11 ents the patient, the estate of the patient, or the natural or duly
 12 appointed guardian of the patient whose condition is at issue in the
 13 action from conducting ex-parte conversations with a treating physician
 14 or other health care provider of the patient.
 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 16 have become a law and shall apply to all actions involving personal
 17 injury, medical, dental or podiatric malpractice, or wrongful death
 18 filed on and after such date and to all such actions pending on such
 19 effective date except as to conduct prohibited by section two of this
 20 act which occurred prior to such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01729-01-5

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