Court Opinion

ID: 9638612
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:48:55.883709+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:03.645502
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring statement:
The order of the trial court striking paragraphs from the plaintiff’s complaint had the effect of putting plaintiff “out of court” on her cause of action for damages allegedly resulting from defendants’ professional negligence in failing to administer to plaintiff an amniocentesis procedure in sufficient time to permit a therapeutic termination of her pregnancy. The remaining cause of action seeks to recover damages caused to plaintiff because the defendants allegedly performed a sterilization procedure on her, without her informed consent, following the birth of a child suffering from Down’s Syndrome. These two causes of action are entirely separate and distinct. Therefore, under Praisner v. Stocker, 313 Pa.Super. 332, 459 A.2d 1255 (1983), the trial court’s order was immediately appealable. For this reason, I concur in the majority’s decision to review the merits of the trial court’s order and join its determination thereof.