(Download) "Urbaniak V. Newton" by First Appellate District, Division One Court of Appeal of California ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Urbaniak V. Newton
- Author : First Appellate District, Division One Court of Appeal of California
- Release Date : January 14, 1991
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
Description
On October 2, 1987, Gary Urbaniak (hereafter Urbaniak), filed a first amended complaint in the Superior Court of San Francisco against Frederic H. Newton, M.D., Frederick H. Newton, M.D., a Medical Corporation (hereafter Dr. Newton), John J. Parente, Paul D. Karasoff, and Allianz Insurance Co. (hereafter collectively respondents) seeking damages for dissemination of a medical report which disclosed that he had tested positive for the HIV virus. The complaint was based on a series of distinct legal theories including invasion of the right to privacy guaranteed in article I, section 1, of the California Constitution, violation of Health and Safety Code section 199.21, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress. In their answer, respondents raised the affirmative defense, among others, that the dissemination of the report was privileged under Civil Code section 47 as a publication in a judicial proceeding.