Behar v. Frazier

LALLY-GREEN, J.:

¶ 1 Appellant, David Behar, M.D., appeals the April 13,1998 judgment entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in favor of Appellee, David M. Frazier. We affirm.

¶ 2 Appellee, an attorney, represented Sandra Hardy in connection with a medical malpractice action. Appellee named Appellant, a board-certified psychiatrist, as one of the eleven defendants in the suit. The suit sought to hold Appellant liable for medical malpractice, emotional distress, and false imprisonment stemming from Appellant’s psychiatric evaluation of Hardy for an involuntary commitment at…