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JONES v. MONTEFIORE HOSPITAL

494 Pa. 410 (1981)

431 A.2d 920

Naomi JONES and Ray Jones, her husband, Appellants, v. MONTEFIORE HOSPITAL, Marvin Silverblatt, Edward L. Waisbrot, Stanley A. Hirsh, Gerald I. Kaufer, Silverblatt Medical Associates, a Pennsylvania corporation, and Surgical Associates, a Pennsylvania professional association, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Christian Hague, Thomas A. Berret, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Charles H. Alpern, Grogan, Graffam, McGinley, Solomon & Lucchino, Pittsburgh, for Montefiore Hospital.

John W. Jordan, IV, Thomson, Rhodes & Grigsby, Pittsburgh, for Waisbrot, Hirsch, Kaufer & Surgical Associates.

William R. Tighe, Stein & Winters, Pittsburgh, for Silverblatt & Silverblatt Medical Associates.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION

KAUFFMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal by Naomi Jones and her husband, Ray Jones, ("appellants") from an Order of the Superior Court affirming judgments in favor of appellees1 entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in a medical malpractice action.2 Because the trial court's jury charge on the issue of causation was clearly erroneous, we reverse and remand for a new trial.<...

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