Case Name: Rodger A. FREED, Respondent, v. GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER; and Healthsouth Corporation, formerly known as Healthsouth Rehabilitation Corporation, and Healthsouth of Nittany Valley, Inc., t/d/b/a Healthsouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Petitioners
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2007-08-02
Citations: 930 A.2d 1249
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rodger A. FREED, Respondent, v. GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER; and Healthsouth Corporation, formerly known as Healthsouth Rehabilitation Corporation, and Healthsouth of Nittany Valley, Inc., t/d/b/a Healthsouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Petitioners.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 930
Pages: 1249–1249

Head Matter:
Rodger A. FREED, Respondent, v. GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER; and Healthsouth Corporation, formerly known as Healthsouth Rehabilitation Corporation, and Healthsouth of Nittany Valley, Inc., t/d/b/a Healthsouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Petitioners.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Aug. 2, 2007.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 2nd day of August, 2007, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:
By holding that a nurse is competent to render an opinion that a breach of the standard of care caused plaintiffs medical condition, did the Superior Court render a decision in direct conflict with Flanagan v. Labe, 547 Pa. 254, 690 A.2d 188 (1997), in which this Court held that a nurse is incompetent to render an opinion on causation in a medical malpractice action because it calls for a medical diagnosis which a nurse is statutorily prohibited from rendering?