OT: The Jason Pierre Paul saga
This is probably old news for many on the boards, as it has been circulating since the weekend. On the 4th, it seems that Jason Pierre Paul was injured by a firework and received burns on his hands. Yesterday, a cell phone picture of his medical record was leaked on twitter which showed that he was having a surgery to amputate his right index finger. It’s being reported that a hospital employee took the image and sent it to a friend, who posted it on twitter. Because of this whole episode, the Giants rescinded a $60 million offer that they had given JPP.
So, since HIPAA (please don’t comment below saying HIPPA) law was clearly violated, I’m very interested in continuing to follow this. I work quite a bit with HIPAA law, and it’s just nauseating that a hospital employee could be that stupid and cavalier with medical data. He may end up in jail, and he deserves to. As for the hospital, HIPAA fines from the OCR have been in the multi-million dollar range. That is typically due to a high volume data breach. I’m curious to find if a civil suit could come up to that range based off of one person losing several million dollars in contract money.
Let me stop any arguments to the contrary before they are started. Even if JPP has an agreement in place with the NFL and waives his HIPAA rights, the nature of the data breach means that HIPAA law was broken. This wasn’t the NFL releasing the data, it was some slack jawed nurse, or IT guy, or facilities person.
ON TOP OF ALL THAT – JPP may face criminal charges because fireworks are illegal in Florida. The convolution runs deep in this story.
TLDR – Jason Pierre Paul blew off his finger with firework. He may face criminal charges, but only because a hospital employee broke the law first and released his medical issue. The Giants said “We good” and rescinded his offer. Now there is HIPAA blowback on ESPN and the hospital for letting this come to light. It’s only appropriate that this happened in Florida.
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The law and the legal field is actually very interesting if you have an open mind. The law is ever changing and it is a living idea that changes with the times. It's actually really remarkable.
If you really think about it lawyers are fighting for your freedoms - or at least those freedoms that affect your daily life - in some ways just as the politician or the soldier do in their own way.
Also lawyers dont convince politicians, lobbyists do.
The hospital is legally obligated (by HIPAA) to ensure privacy of his medical records. So yes, it's completely different from the other situations you listed.
Furthermore, JPP refused to see a hand specialist the club wanted him to visit before the amputation occurred. I assumed then that it was very serious and he is trying to keep information from the club. Not a good sign at all.
Guessing that finger was mostly gone and the amputation probably wasn't much of a decision. Trying to keep it from the Giants was likely more of a panic reaction than anything.
Yep. Hopefully the Lions pick him up at a discount. I mean how good can he be with only nine fingers?
a 4-finger discount?
Schefty should have the integrity to remove it and apologize. This isn't national security where public interest is best served we're talking about.
The hospital will be required to follow HIPAA breach reporting protocol.
UCLA had to pay nearly a million in fines and retrain their staff on HIPAA law for leaking celebrity medical records. Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, Tom Cruise and others.
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That sucks for him. Think about it, in some dumb accident you lose a finger FROM A FUCKING EXPLOSION mere inches from your face and might lose some serious money from it. I don't know how losing a finger hurts your pass rushing ability though. Should make for a brutal training camp though with jokes from fellow players.
Don't understand people calling him an idiot though, gotta think it was a short/faulty fuse on like an M80 or something. Used to throw those things off my grandmas dock as a teenager.
Adam Schefter did this and is getting killed by current players, James Harrison and I have the same take on this. Is ESPN above the law?
.@AdamSchefter You're a real piece of sh*t for putting that picture up!
— James Harrison (@jharrison9292) July 9, 2015
Just be happy you're still gonna have these JPP, in my opinion the only two fingers you really need.
My number one goal in life is to never make James Harrison angry with me. So far I'm living the dream.
He may have consulted with an editor, but seriously doubtful he consulted with a lawyer. The perspective is that they can screw up or do something skirting ethics and have the lawyers insulate them from any legal fallout.
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a lot of latitude in digging up stories. It's called freedom of the press. Releasing information given to them is not illegal.
Also fireworks in the background of the GIF?
Glad you picked up on the fingers and fireworks at play
You were a teenager and not a grown ass man. Also, you probably weren't about to sign a multimillion dollar contract to do a job that relies heavily on your hands. I think that anyone that wants to call him an idiot is in the clear. I'll bet you JPP is calling himself an idiot.
"It's apprpriate that this happened in Florida"
Like this doesn't happen elsewhere.
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Who's there?
HIPAA
HIPPA who?
I can't tell you.
It's in my blood.
I might face prison time for this, but what the hell: It's HIPAA Potamus.
/ducks
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It's a fucking HIPPA fucking Potamus fuckshitdamn
Deadwood style
This is probably the first year I hear about soo many fireworks related injuries happening in sports. Tampa Bays Bucs backup CB also had 2 fingers amputated due to fireworks this past 4th of July
Um, JPP didn't lose millions of dollars because a medical record was released. He lost millions of dollars because he blew his fucking hand off with fireworks. Let's make that clear.
342 why I don't play with fireworks.
I can't believe a hospital employee would be that stupid. Now he's going to lose his job for being a star struck douchebag.
People's obsession with providing confidential information on celebs is astounding to me. Do people really get some kind of satisfaction from being the bozo who stumbled into this info? Its like they believe they accomplished something. This guy was so blinded by just trying to be cool to his buddy he did something he knew would get him fired.
So Bernstein and Woodward were "morons" too, right?
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