Summary Judgment For Miami Hospital, EMT Affirmed In Patient Privacy Dispute

( March 13, 2026, 3:54 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A Florida appellate panel affirmed summary judgment for a Miami hospital and an emergency medical technician, holding that the father of a deceased hospital patient could not pursue claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy or vicarious liability arising from the unauthorized social media posting of his son’s leg injury because the conduct was not legally outrageous, the father was neither present nor the direct target of the photo and the image did not identify the patient or invade a privacy interest....