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PHYSICIANS INS. CO. v. PISTONE

555 Pa. 616 (1999)

726 A.2d 339

PHYSICIANS INSURANCE COMPANY and Professional Adjustment Services, Inc. v. Francis J. PISTONE, M.D., Associated Surgeons, Ltd., Annette Yaworsky and John Yaworsky. Appeal of Annette Yaworsky and John Yaworsky.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Fanelli, Sudhir R. Patel, Pottsville, for Annette & John Yaworsky.

Michael J. Kowalski, Wilkes Barre, for Physicians Ins. Co. & Professional Adjustment.

Edward H. Heitmiller, Pottsville, for Francis Pistone, M.D.

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

NEWMAN, Justice.

We granted allowance of appeal in this matter to determine when conduct constitutes the rendering of professional health care services.

FACTS

On September 19, 1990, Annette Yaworsky was admitted to Pottsville Hospital and the Warne Clinic (the Hospital), with complaints of abdominal pain. Francis J. Pistone, M.D., who was on call that night, examined...

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