In an issue of first impression, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear argument on whether a previously undisclosed communication between doctors about a patient’s fatal aneurysm can toll the two-year statute of limitations in a wrongful death action.

An order for allowance of appeal was issued by the court May 4 in Reibenstein v. Conaboy. Plaintiff Linda Reibenstein sued Dr. Patrick Conaboy and Dr. Charles Barax over the death of Mary Ann Whitman.

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