Acosta v. Cary

365 So.2d 4 (1978)

Bernard R. ACOSTA

v.

George R. CARY, Jr., et al.

No. 9480.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 8, 1978.

Joseph S. Russo, Jefferson, for plaintiff.

Gregory J. Laborde, Henry B. Alsobrook, Jr., Adams & Reese, New Orleans, for defendants.

Before REDMANN, BOUTALL and GARRISON, JJ.

REDMANN, Judge.

Does an employee have a right to privacy which obliges a physician, evaluating a back injury for the employee's present employer, not to give the employer a copy of the physician's evaluation of earlier injury to the employee for a prior employer? We answer no, but only if the…