Medical Malpractice and AI: How the Federal Court’s Holding in United States v. Heppner Impacts HealthCare Litigation

For more than a century, civil law in the United States has protected the communications of litigants under a number of protections, including attorney client privilege and the work-product doctrine. That longstanding framework began to shift on February 17, 2026, when Judge Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York took the first step toward modernizing privacy and confidentiality rules to address the ever looming issue of generative AI….
By: Marshall Dennehey