Court Opinion

ID: 9732201
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:11:28.866936+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:11.724809
License: Public Domain

CONCURRING OPINION BY
TODD, J.:
¶ 1 I join in the opinion of my esteemed colleague Judge Beck on behalf of the Majority. I write separately only to emphasize the troublesome application of the 5-year rule for expert testimony under 40 P.S. § 1303.512(b) to cases such as the present one. As the Majority notes (see Majority Op., at 1288 n. 4), delays in the pretrial phases of litigation, whether intentional or inadvertent, may have the result of rendering inadmissible expert testimony which, during pretrial proceedings, was admissible. The unfairness and substantial *1291inefficiency of this result for a litigant who may have no control over a pretrial delay is of such a serious nature that I believe it warrants the renewed attention of the legislature.
¶ 2 HUDOCK and BECK, JJ. join.