Jeff D. Gorman reports:
A hospital and one of its nurses are not liable for disclosing a woman’s HIV-positive status to family members who visited her, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled.
Candy Ziolkowski sued the Heartland Regional Medical Center for violation of a Missouri law that keeps the HIV status of patients confidential.
She claimed that a nurse, Diana Munford, revealed her HIV status to her brother and aunt.
Read more on Courthouse News, where you can also read the court’s opinion (pdf). It seems that during the original jury trial, there was a lot of dispute about the facts of the case and the jury found for the defendants.