Raynor Files Complaint Over $1M Sanction
The Philadelphia-area attorney hit with nearly $1 million in sanctions that were later reversed has alleged that the attorneys who pursued those sanctions only did so to inflate attorney fees in the underlying medical malpractice case.
April 15, 2017 at 12:21 AM
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The Philadelphia-area lawyer hit with nearly $1 million in sanctions—that were later reversed—has alleged that the attorneys who pursued those sanctions only did so to inflate their fees in the underlying medical malpractice case.
Medical malpractice defense attorney Nancy Raynor recently filed a complaint in the civil suit she had begun in January against attorneys who pursued contempt proceedings against her. The complaint, filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, alleges three causes of action, including abuse of process and wrongful use of civil proceedings under both common law and the Dragonetti Act.
Raynor captured the attention of Pennsylvania lawyers after she was hit with a $946,197 sanction in 2014 for allegedly eliciting an improper reference to smoking in a lung-cancer-related case that caused a mistrial. Those sanctions were overturned by the state Superior Court over the summer, and late last year the state Supreme Court ended a bid to have the sanctions reinstated.
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