Chanko v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 2016-03-31

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*50 OPINION OF THE COURT Stein, J. Defendants’ actions in filming a patient’s medical treatment and death in a hospital emergency room without consent, and then broadcasting a portion of the footage as part of a documentary series about medical trauma, were not so extreme and outrageous as to support a cause of action by the patient’s family members for…

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