• Watson v. The Terrace at Chestnut Hill

    Publication Date: 2023-01-02
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Shreeves-Johns
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 00101

    The court denied appellants' motion to compel arbitration on the basis that appellants waived their right to the arbitration agreement by engaging in the judicial process. Although appellants argued that their delay was simply caused by the fact that they were "unaware" of the arbitration agreement, the court found this argument unavailing, noting that the agreement had been timely produced during discovery.

  • State Workers' Ins. Fund v. Harburg Med. Sales Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-02
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 712 C.D. 2021

    Hearing officer correctly found respondent's fee review petition was not premature in petitioner's challenge to hearing officer's decision that petitioner could not deny reimbursement to respondent without first seeking utilization review and ordering petitioner to reimburse respondent because none of the conditions in WC regulation 127.255 were met. Affirmed.

  • Azer Scientific Inc. v. Quidel Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-26
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Gallagher
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 5:21-cv-02972-JMG

    Email correspondence formed a valid, binding contract where parties agreed to material terms, even though they continued to negotiate other terms and conditions of final written contract, but material disputes over the parties' respective alleged breaches precluded summary judgment. Parties' cross-motions for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part.

  • Riebenstein v. Barax

    Publication Date: 2022-12-26
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 32 MAP 2021

    Superior court erred in finding the language in the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act was ambiguous and in concluding trial court erred when it entered summary judgment on the basis that decedent's death certificate recorded her medical cause of death and court found the phrase "cause of death" in MCARE §513(d) referred specifically to the medical cause of death and only an affirmative misrepresentation or fraudulent concealment of such medical cause of death tolled the two-year statute of limitations for medical ma

  • In re: Zostavax Prods. Liab. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-26
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Bartle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2848

    Court dismissed claims of plaintiffs alleging that live-attenuated virus strain in vaccine caused them to suffer disease, when those plaintiffs failed to come forward with laboratory reports or other medically sound diagnostic testing to demonstrate that their cases of disease were not caused by wild-type strains naturally present in their bodies. Defendants' motion to dismiss granted.

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  • Estate of Quigley v. Pottstown Hosp., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1022 EDA 2022

    Trial court erred in granting defendant Tower Health's motion for a change of venue in action for negligence, premises liability, and assault/raperespondeat superior alleging decedent was raped and sexually assaulted while a patient at hospital owned by Tower Health and court found that Tower Health, a parent corporation and named defendant, regularly conducted business in Philadelphia for the purposes of establishing venue. Reversed.

  • Ungarean v. CNA & Valley Forge Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-19
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 490 WDA 2021

    Trial court properly granted summary judgment to plaintiff in action for insurance coverage for loss of business income due to COVID-19 under policy's business income and extra expense provisions and court agreed with trial court's interpretation of "direct physical loss of or damage to" to include the act of being deprived of the physical use of one's property. Affirmed.

  • Morales v. St. Lukes's Hospital-Allentown Campus

    Publication Date: 2022-12-12
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Caffrey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-C-1183

    Defendants erred in relying on Sutherland v. Monongahela Valley Hosp. to argue that the corporate negligence theory did not apply to a physician's group because it had not assumed the role of a comprehensive health center, and failed to analyze such a claim in view of the factors set forth in Althaus v. Cohen. The court overruled defendants' preliminary objection.

  • Martinez v. UPMC Susquehanna

    Publication Date: 2022-12-12
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Brann
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 4:19-CV-00327

    Age discrimination claim filed by terminated surgeon dismissed where surgeon failed to rebut hospital's assertion that it terminated the surgeon after he was negligent in performing a surgical procedure that resulted in the patient requiring corrective surgery. Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted.

  • Terry v. Aesculap Implant Sys., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-12
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Caffrey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2018-C-1938

    The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss based on lack of personal jurisdiction on the basis that they lacked both general and specific jurisdiction. As to general jurisdiction, the court found that jurisdictional requirements were not met under 42 Pa. C.S.A. §5301(a)(1). The court then reviewed whether specific jurisdiction was proper, finding that the defendant lacked sufficient minimum contacts within the state.