A Connecticut Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital that accused the hospital of violating the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practice Act by promoting a hospital physician to become a top breast specialist while he struggled with a drug addiction, according to a Greenwich Time news report.
The class-action lawsuit was originally filed in 2008 by eight former patients. The complaint alleged the hospital knowingly ignored Ian Rubins', MD, drug addiction in order to protect the hospital's breast center, thereby violating CUTPA. Dr. Rubins, who was admitted to rehab programs several times while he had privileges at the hospital, died of a heroin overdose in 2008, according to the news report.
"Unfair trade practice statutes were clearly not enacted to address potential abuses in the practice of medicine itself," Judge John Blawie wrote in a memorandum filed last week. "That is what medical malpractice claims are for."
Read the news report about the CUTPA lawsuit against Greenwich Hospital.
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The class-action lawsuit was originally filed in 2008 by eight former patients. The complaint alleged the hospital knowingly ignored Ian Rubins', MD, drug addiction in order to protect the hospital's breast center, thereby violating CUTPA. Dr. Rubins, who was admitted to rehab programs several times while he had privileges at the hospital, died of a heroin overdose in 2008, according to the news report.
"Unfair trade practice statutes were clearly not enacted to address potential abuses in the practice of medicine itself," Judge John Blawie wrote in a memorandum filed last week. "That is what medical malpractice claims are for."
Read the news report about the CUTPA lawsuit against Greenwich Hospital.
Read other coverage about hospital lawsuits:
- Texas' United Regional Health Reaches Settlement Over Monopoly, Anti-Competitive Allegations
- Judge Overturns Bert Fish, Adventist Merger Due to Sunshine Law Violations
- Massachusetts General Pays $1M to Settle HIPAA Violation Allegations