A doctor has no duty to release a baby’s medical records to the baby’s prospective adoptive parents without the proper authorization to release the medical records.
Appeals
Jent v. Fort Wayne Police Dept., No. 02A03-1108-MI-388, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 15, 2012).
The “reasonable particularity” requirement under the Access to Public Records Act “enables the subpoenaed party to identify what is sought and enables the trial court to determine whether there has been sufficient compliance with the request.”
Curts v. Miller Health Systems, Inc., No. 09A02-1112-CT-1191, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 15, 2012).
“[N]urses can potentially have sufficient expertise to qualify as experts for the purposes of medical standards of care and medical causation.”
Gulzar v. State, No. 20A03-1202-PC-88, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 7, 2012).
Even assuming, had he been advised of deportation consequences, that defendant would not have pled guilty due to the “special circumstances” that deportation would have uprooted his family, the very strong evidence of his guilt made harmless counsel’s failure to advise him that his theft plea bargain would result in automatic deportation.
Est. of Short v. Brookville Crossing 4060 LLC, No. 49A02-1112-CT-1128, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., July 31, 2012).
Declines to extend the duty of innkeepers to guests to include instances in which the owner did not have knowledge of a perilous situation.