Privacy of Pharmacy Prescription Files - TheBody.com's Bulletin Boards

If you are HIV-positive or have AIDS, and your prescription or medical information has been sold or disclosed by your pharmacy without your knowledge or permission, your privacy rights may have been violated, depending on the laws of the state where your pharmacy is located.

Many states have laws that generally prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of confidential HIV- or AIDS-related information. We believe that a sale or transfer of your prescription files to another pharmacy that you did not know about or consent to may violate these HIV/AIDS nondisclosure provisions, as well as other laws that apply generally to medical information, pharmacies and other health-care providers.

Our law firm, Levi Lubarsky & Feigenbaum LLP, is currently representing the plaintiff in a New York State lawsuit brought as a class action on behalf of individuals whose medical or prescription information was purchased from independent pharmacies without the patients' knowledge and consent by a large, national drugstore chain. If you would like further information about these privacy issues, please contact Richard F. Lubarsky or Howard B. Levi, at (212) 308-6100. Our address is 845 Third Avenue, 21st Floor, New York, New York 10022. Our e-mail addresses are RFL@LLF-LAW.COM and HBL@LLF-LAW.COM. (Our firm's atorneys are admitted to practice in New York State; in appropriate situations and subject to court rules, we may handle cases outside of New York with the assistance of locally-admitted attorneys.)

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