Court Opinion

ID: 9464328
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:30:44.987457+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:34.609963
License: Public Domain

ROSENN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I join in the views expressed by my brethren. I write separately only to reiterate that I continue to adhere to the views expressed in my dissent in Hackett v. General Host Corp., 455 F.2d 618 (3d Cir.), cert. denied, 407 U.S. 925, 92 S.Ct. 2460, 32 L.Ed.2d 812 (1972), in which I advanced the proposition that an appeal from an order denying a class action certification is ap-pealable if the effect of the denial would be to sound the “death knell” of the action.
In this case, however, the amount of premiums claimed by each physician is in excess of |10,000, and so each of the plaintiffs has ample motivation to proceed with the action without class certification. The death knell doctrine, therefore, is inapplicable here.