Rau v. Tannenbaum

Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Evans, J.), entered March 2, 1981, denying plaintiff’s motion to dismiss defendant’s first affirmative defense reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion to strike said defense granted. Plaintiff, Otto Rau, an 83-year-old gentleman, brings this action against his former physician, Dr. Tannenbaum, to recover for the alleged improper and illegal disclosure of information obtained by reason of the patient-physician relationship which then existed between them. Defendant treated plaintiff for a number of years for hypertension and other…