Legal Opinion
Atcovitz v. Gulph Mills Tennis Club, Inc.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 20, 2002No. 29 EAP 2001PublishedCited by 203 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Chief Justice ZAPPALA.
We granted allowance of appeal in this case to determine whether a tennis club owes a duty of care to its members to acquire and maintain an automated external defibrillator, hereinafter “AED,” on its premises for emergency use.1 For the reasons that follow, we hold that such clubs do not owe a duty to have an AED available on their premises.
On January 16, 1996, Jerry Atcovitz suffered a stroke, secondary to a heart attack, while playing tennis at the Gulph Mills Tennis Club.2 Within a minute of his collapse, two tennis club members administered cardiopulmonary…
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