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Walter v. Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC Health System

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Sep 28, 2006
588 Pa. 739 (Pa. 2006)

Summary

holding that the processing of lab reports was more like providing medical treatment than consumer-oriented commercial or business activities of health care providers that the consumer protection statute would cover

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Opinion

53 WAP 2005.

Argued September 11, 2006.

Decided September 28, 2006.

Appeal No. 53 WAP 2005 from the Order of the Superior Court entered April 12, 2005 at No. 817 WDA 2004, affirming the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County entered April 15, 2004 at No. GD 03-025469. 876 A.2d 400 (Pa.Super.2005).

Thomas E. Groshens, Richard A. Sprague, Robert C. Daniels, Philadelphia, for appellant.

William A. Pietragallo, II, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Lisa Whitcomb Clark, David Edwin Loder, Philip H. Lebowitz, Philadelphia, for appellee amicus curiae.


ORDER


AND NOW, this 28th day of September, 2006, the Order of the Superior Court is hereby AFFIRMED.

Chief Justice Cappy did not participate in the consideration or decision of this matter.


Summaries of

Walter v. Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC Health System

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Sep 28, 2006
588 Pa. 739 (Pa. 2006)

holding that the processing of lab reports was more like providing medical treatment than consumer-oriented commercial or business activities of health care providers that the consumer protection statute would cover

Summary of this case from Franks v. Sykes
Case details for

Walter v. Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC Health System

Case Details

Full title:Christine WALTER and Sharon King, on behalf of themselves and all other…

Court:Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Sep 28, 2006

Citations

588 Pa. 739 (Pa. 2006)
906 A.2d 1194

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