People v. Home Insurance

The People appeal from the dismissal of theft and theft-related charged by the trial court at the close of the prosecution’s case. The charges arose from the surreptitious procurement by agents of the insurance company defendants of confidential medical information concerning two patients of a Denver hospital. The trial court granted the dismissal because the medical information obtained was not a “thing of value” as defined in the pertinent statute and therefore was not subject to theft. We affirm.

The defendants hired an injury claims investigative service to obtain medical information…