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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 18:35:32+00:00

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"[P]rior cases make it clear that a confidential relationship is not one merely exhibiting mutual trust and confidence. Rather, the relationship is more accurately described as one in which ''confidence is placed by one in the other and the recipient of that confidence is the dominant personality, with ability, because of that confidence, to influence and exercise dominion and control over the weaker or dominated party.'' Mitchell v. Smith, 779 S.W.2d 384, 389 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1989) (quoting Iacometti v. Frassinelli, 494 S.W.2d 496, 499 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1973))." 75 S.W.3d at 410.
(internal quotations omitted). To be clear, then, a plaintiff may recover damages from an abuse or breach of a confidential relationship only by showing that (1) the defendant was in a position to influence or control the plaintiff; (2) the defendant used the confidences given to him or her to obtain some benefit from, or advantage over, the plaintiff; and (3) the plaintiff, as the dominated party in the relationship, suffered some detriment at the hands of the defendant. See Mahunda v. Thomas, [402 S.W.2d 485, 489 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1965)] (citing Peoples Bank v. Baxter, [298 S.W.2d 732, 737 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1956)]); see also Kelly v. Allen, 558 S.W.2d 845, 848 (Tenn. 1977) (stating that "there must be a showing that there were present the elements of dominion and control by the stronger over the weaker")." Id.
"In reviewing the complaint in this case, we find that the plaintiff has not stated a claim for inducement to breach a confidential relationship. While the physician-patient relationship can constitute such a relationship, see Shadrick v. Coker, 963 S.W.2d 726, 735-36 (Tenn. 1998); Turner, [232 S.W.2d at 271], the plaintiff has not alleged that her physician used the trust or confidences given to him either to obtain an advantage over her or to extract some benefit from her." Id. at 410-11.

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