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1 week ago |
torttalk.com | Daniel E. Cummins
In the case of Smith v. Supportive Concepts for Families, Inc., No. 21-2038 (C.P. Berks Co. Jan. 25, 2025 Nevius, J.), the court addressed a Motion for Summary Judgment filed by a provider of outpatient psychiatric services in a case in which the Plaintiff alleged that she was assaulted by a patient during a psychiatric medical examination. The Plaintiff was attacked when she visited a group home owned and operated by the Defendant.
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torttalk.com | Daniel E. Cummins
In the case of Duxbury v. Reconstructive Orthopedic Assoc., June Term, 2023 No. 1031 (C.P. Phila. Co. Feb. 10, 2025 Bright, J.), the trial court issued a Rule 1925 Opinion in support of its decision to transfer this medical malpractice case under the doctrine of forum non conveniens. The Plaintiffs sued the medical Defendants for professional liability arising out of alleged negligence in the treatment of the Plaintiff’s complaints of back pain.
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1 week ago |
torttalk.com | Daniel E. Cummins
Pickering v. Associated Realty Prop. Mgt., Inc., Oct. Term 2023, No. 0613 (C.P. Phila. Co. Nov. 22, 2024 Bright, J.), the court issued a Rule 1925 Opinion in support of its granting of a Motion to Transfer of Venue be upheld in this wrongful death action involving a case in which the appellant’s decedent fell down a defective trash shoot in a building owned and/or operated by several of the Defendants.
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1 week ago |
torttalk.com | Daniel E. Cummins
Mendoza-Colon v. Luscomb, Inc., No. 65 MDA 2024 (Pa. Super. April 10, 2025 Bowes, J., Olson, J., and Stabile, J.) (Op. by Olson, J.), the Superior Court ruled that the trial court had erroneously granted a transfer of venue motion rather than first ordering venue-related discovery where the evidence indicated that the Defendants offered business services to the county where the case was initially filed.
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2 weeks ago |
torttalk.com | Daniel E. Cummins
The Farmers Fire Ins. Co. v. S.W. Krauss, LLC, No. 2023-CV-5087 (C.P. Lacka. Co. May 12, 2025 Gibbons, J.), the court granted a liability carrier’s Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings based upon an assault battery exclusion contained in the subject policy relative to a shooting incident that occurred on the insured’s premises.
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