Catherine Panko, Admx. Of the Estate of Margaret R. Barrett, Dec'd v. Consolidated Mutual Insurance Company

OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Chief Judge.

This appeal has been taken from an adverse summary judgment in an action by the appellant against Consolidated Mutual Insurance Company for allegedly inducing a doctor to breach professional and fiduciary duties that he owed to appellant’s decedent by divulging information about her condition while she was under his care.

Mrs. Barrett, the appellant’s decedent, consulted a cancer specialist in Philadelphia after she slipped and fell in the aisle of a food market operated by Food Fair Stores, Inc., in New Jersey. Mrs. Barrett subsequently brought suit…