A lawsuit against a Bradford County-based ambulance company whose services in Lackawanna County constitute less than 1 percent of its trips and revenue should be heard in the former county rather than the latter, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.
Court of Common Pleas Judge Terrence R. Nealon found that because Western Alliance Emergency Services Inc.’s non-emergency trips in Lackawanna County constituted just 0.0826 percent of its total transports in an 18-month period and just 0.173 percent of its gross receipts, there was insufficient evidence to find that the company “regularly conducts business” in the county. He sustained Western Alliance’s preliminary objection raising improper venue and transferred the case to Bradford County, with the costs to be borne by the plaintiffs.
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