A physician’s disclosure duty does not extend to a patient’s insurance relationship

8 C 320/14Court of First InstanceMar 19, 2015Civil lawDismissed

Extracted by Omnilex

Omnilex summary

The Bottrop Local Court dismissed the plaintiff’s civil claim and ordered her to bear the costs. The court stated that a physician’s duty to provide information does not extend to advising a patient about the legal relationship with a social insurance provider or health insurer. The judgment is provisionally enforceable, subject to the security conditions stated in the operative part. The amount in dispute was set at EUR 3,474.15.

Omnilex headnote

BGB §§ 280(1), 281, 611(1), 823(1); limits of a physician’s duty to provide information. A physician’s disclosure obligation does not extend to explaining or advising on the patient’s legal relationship with a social insurance provider or health insurer. The duty to inform in the physician-patient relationship is therefore distinct from any information obligations that may arise within the patient’s relationship with the relevant social insurance institution or health insurer.

Full text

Amtsgericht Bottrop — 8 C 320/14 — Urteil

Entscheidungsdatum: 2015-03-19

Aktenzeichen: 8 C 320/14

ECLI: ECLI:DE:AGBOT:2015:0319.8C320.14.00

Dokumenttyp: Urteil

Spruchkörper: Zivilabteilung 8

Normen: BGB §§ 280 Abs. 1, 281, 611 Abs. 1, 823 Abs. 1

Leitsätze

Die Aufklärungspflicht eines Arztes geht nicht soweit, dass im rechtlichen Verhältnis Patient zu Sozialversicherungsträger bzw. Krankenkasse aufgeklärt werden muss.

Tenor

Die Klage wird abgewiesen.

Die Kosten des Rechtsstreits trägt die Klägerin.

Das Urteil ist vorläufig vollstreckbar. Der Klägerin bleibt nachgelassen, die Vollstreckung gegen Sicherheitsleistung in Höhe von 110 % des zu vollstreckenden Betrages abzuwenden, wenn nicht zuvor die Beklagten Sicherheit in selber Höhe leisten.

Der Streitwert wird auf 3.474,15 EUR festgesetzt.

Keywords

physician’s duty to informphysician-patient relationshiphealth insurancesocial insurancecivil liability

Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Whether the defendant(s) were liable to the plaintiff on the claim brought, including on the basis of a physician’s duty to provide information concerning the patient’s relationship with a social insurance provider or health insurer.

A physician’s duty to provide information does not extend to advising the patient about the legal relationship with a social insurance provider or health insurer; the claim was dismissed.

The physician’s duty to inform does not encompass the patient’s legal relationship with a social insurance provider or health insurer.

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