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Venue back on the menu? Proposed rule change could shift the landscape of medical malpractice in the Commonwealth

Health Law Gurus

Change may be coming soon to Pennsylvania’s medical malpractice venue rule (Rule 1006(a.1))—a 1))—a change that could send medical malpractice filings in Philadelphia skyrocketing. Notably, the report did not draw any conclusions as to what impacts eliminating the medical malpractice venue rule may have.

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Live Free, or at Least Have a Present Injury

Drug & Device Law

135, 156-57 (2003); Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co. Dupont Hospital for Children , 393 F. Plaquemines Parish Government , 982 So.2d As best we know, the following decisions in the following states have rejected no-injury medical monitoring. Federal law : Norfolk & Western Railway Co. Ayers , 538 U.S. Buckley , 521 U.S.