Jones v. FEGS-WeCARE/Human Resources, NYC

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Frank R Ñervo, J.), entered on or about April 10, 2015, which, insofar as appealed from, denied plaintiff’s motion for a protective order as to requested Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) authorizations and granted defendants’ cross motion to compel plaintiff to produce those authorizations, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to limit the discovery from August 2012 to the present, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was a participant in defendant FEGS-WeCARE’s (FEGS) mental health program.…