A 1215: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1215 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ 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