TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 29, 2020

A majority of the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled today that plaintiffs who provided defendants with medical authorizations lacking three of the six core elements required by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) failed to substantially comply with a Tennessee law requiring pre-suit notice in health care liability actions. As a result, the court dismissed the plaintiffs’ lawsuit as untimely. Justice Holly Kirby filed a separate opinion dissenting in part from the majority opinion. Read more from the court.