Legal Opinion
Swarthout v. Mutual Service Life Insurance Co.
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided August 7, 2001No. CX-01-201PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LINDBERG, Judge. *
In the process of investigating the possible purchase of an annuity and some insurance from respondent Mutual Service Life Insurance Co. (MSI), appellant David Swarthout signed a release allowing MSI to obtain medical information about him from one doctor. MSI altered the release to acquire additional information from a second doctor and from a clinic. After obtaining information about Swarthout from those sources, MSI transmitted the information to a medical-records database, the content of which was available to all subscribing insurers. Swarthout sued MSI on…
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