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Today’s top story is the broadening of the separate-disease rule in asbestos cases by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. As reporter Gina Passarella writes, the court has expanded the rule to allow a plaintiff to sue more than once for two distinct, malignant, asbestos-related diseases arising at different times.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that a state Superior Court panel has upheld a $17.3 million judgment in a Philadelphia products liability case entered against the manufacturer of a racking system used in a frozen food warehouse. In Rice v. 2701 Red Lion Road Associates LP, plaintiff Leroy Rice, a forklift operator, was partially paralyzed when several 90-pound boxes of frozen food fell on him.
In more Regional News on Page 3, Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that the state Supreme Court has retained and modified the paternity by estoppel doctrine. The common-law doctrine bars DNA testing in every case in which a putative father of a child has held a child out as his own. The modifications will require that judges only apply the doctrine if they determine it is in the best interests of the child.
As always, our People in the News section is on Page 2, and the top stories from our sister publications across the country make up the Page 4 National News section.
In a Health Care Law column on Page 5, Vasilios J. Kalogredis and Karilynn Bayus write about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision that sales tax applies to PET/CT and MRI scan systems.
As it is Wednesday, this week’s GC Mid-Atlantic column is on Page 7, as Krista P. Harper writes that it’s important to keep costs in mind while guiding clients through litigation.
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