Speck v. Finegold

CERCONE, Presiding Judge:

This case comes before us on plaintiffs’ appeal from the lower court’s order sustaining defendant-physicians’ preliminary objections to certain allegations contained in plaintiffs’ complaint.1 The intended effect of the preliminary objections is to terminate plaintiffs’ lawsuit on grounds that plaintiffs’ action is contrary to law and public policy.2 The matter before us, of first impression in the appellate courts of Pennsylvania, presents for judicial inquiry and decision the cognizability of an action in law brought by plaintiffs to recover damages against…