2022 New York Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules
Article 45 - Evidence
4550 - Admissibility of Evidence Related to Legally Protected Health Activity.
§ 4550. Admissibility of evidence related to legally protected health activity. Evidence relating to the involvement of a party engaging in one or more legally protected health activity, as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 570.17 of the criminal procedure law, relating to providing reproductive health services to persons not physically present in this state shall not be offered against such party as evidence that such party has engaged in any wrongdoing, whether civil, criminal, professional, or otherwise by virtue of such recipients of such services not being physically present in this state. Nothing in this section shall prevent a party from offering such evidence in a proceeding that (i) sounds in tort or contract, (ii) is actionable, in an equivalent or similar manner, under the laws of this state, and (iii) was brought by the patient who received reproductive health services, or the patient's legal representative.
