On May 1, 2026, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine (or “Petitioner”) filed a lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania—alleging that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) chatbot developed by Character Technologies, Inc. (or “Respondent”) engaged in the unlawful practice of medicine.
Every now and then a confusing knot of rules gets streamlined and untangled. That recently occurred in New Jersey, when the state’s Supreme Court adopted a new unified Mental Health Service Provider – Patient Privilege, to replace the state’s existing patchwork of privileges which offer varying, and sometimes inconsistent, degrees of protection to communications between mental healthcare professionals and their patients. The new privilege, codified as NJ Evidence Rule 534 (“Rule”) will go into effect on July 16, 2016. The Rule applies to legal proceedings in New ...
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