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BURGER v. BLAIR MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, INC.

No. 14 WAP 2008

964 A.2d 374 (2009)

Diana BURGER v. BLAIR MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, INC. and Natasha Karanjia, D.O. Appeal of Blair Medical Associates, Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 20, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wesley Jordan, IV, Esq., Matis, Baum, Rizza, O'Connor, Pittsburgh, for Blair Medical Associates, Inc. and Natasha Karanjia, D.O., appellants.

Stephen D. Wicks, Esq., Altoona, for Diana Burger, appellee.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY and GREENSPAN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

We allowed appeal to consider the statute of limitations governing a claim for breach of physician-patient confidentiality.

Appellee Diana Burger received medical treatment from a physician employed by Appellant Blair Medical Associates, Inc. ("BMA") from 1996 until 2001. In October 1999, Appellee sustained a work-related injury. On October 28, 1999, she signed a medical authorization, permitting her employer's worker...

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