N.Y. CPLR § 4550
N.Y. CPLR § 4550 - Admissibility of Evidence Related to Legally Protected Health Activity (2024)
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NEW YORK CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES (CPLR) New York State | For Informational Purposes Only CPLR § 4550 Admissibility of evidence related to legally protected healthactivity § 4550. Admissibility of evidence related to legally protected healthactivity. Evidence relating to the involvement of a party engaging inlegally protected health activity, as defined by section 570.17 of thecriminal procedure law shall not be offered against such party asevidence that such party has engaged in any wrongdoing, whether civil,criminal, professional, or otherwise by virtue of engaging in suchlegally protected health activity. Nothing in this section shall preventa party from offering such evidence in a proceeding that (i) sounds intort or contract, (ii) is actionable, in an equivalent or similarmanner, under the laws of this state, and (iii) was brought by theperson who received reproductive health care or gender-affirming care,or the person's legal representative in a manner consistent withsubparagraph (iii) of paragraph one of subdivision (g) of section threethousand one hundred nineteen of this chapter.