Thanks to two recent Pennsylvania Superior Court rulings upholding the “consent by registration” theory of jurisdiction, the first ovarian-cancer-related talc case in the Philadelphia  Court of Common Pleas has been allowed to proceed.

On Oct. 1, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Idee Fox overruled preliminary objections by defendant Imerys Talc America in Kleiner v. Rite Aid, finding that the Superior Court’s decisions in Webb-Benjamin v. International Rug Group from June and Murray v. American LaFrance from September dictate that an out-of-state company’s registration to do business in Pennsylvania constitutes consent to general personal jurisdiction in Pennsylvania.

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