Evans v. Rite Aid Corp.

TOÁL, Justice:

This Court granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision in Evans v. Rite Aid Corp., 317 S.C. 154, 452 S.E.2d 9 (Ct.App.1994), which held that pharmacists do not owe their customers a duty of confidentiality. Further, the opinion rejected Evans’s claim for negligent falsehood. We affirm as modified.

FactuaivProcedural Background

In October 1989, Myra Kay Evans submitted a drug prescription to Rite Aid Pharmacy (“Pharmacy”). She discovered shortly thereafter that a Pharmacy employee had reported to others that Evans’s medication was for the treatment of a venereal…