Staub v. Southwest Butler County School District

WIEAND, Judge:

Does the Pennsylvania Health Care Services Malpractice Act1 require a court of common pleas to surrender original jurisdiction of an action in trespass when the tortfeasor-defendant causes one or more health care providers to be *417joined as additional defendants? The trial court answered this issue in the affirmative and directed a transfer of the case to the Administrator for Arbitration Panels for Health Care. We disagree and reverse.

The complaint alleged that Diane Lynn Staub had sustained brain damage when she fell from “still rings” during a physical education class at Seneca…