On the surface, it looks like a routine med mal case. A Philadelphia jury awarded the estate of a women killed by a stroke $29,207 on a wrongful death claim. The Superior Court awarded the plaintiffs a new trial on damages finding that the award bore “no reasonable relationship to the proven damages.” The defendant appealed, and now the state Supreme Court has decided to hear it.
So what makes the high court’s April 4 decision to grant allocatur to Carroll v. Avallone so interesting?
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