Faulkner v. Mary Hitchcock Mem’l Hosp. (Summary)

WRONGFUL TERMINATION (RESIDENT)

Faulkner v. Mary Hitchcock Mem’l Hosp., No. 12-cv-482-SM (D. N.H. Nov. 13, 2013)

The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire denied a partial motion to dismiss filed by a hospital and others (“defendants”) in a suit brought by a resident physician, alleging the defendants disclosed her medical disability to third parties without her consent and terminated her from the hospital’s residency program because they did not want to accommodate her disability.   The court held that the physician’s wrongful discharge claim was not displaced by the state’s anti-discrimination statute.   Accordingly, the defendants’ partial motion to dismiss was denied.