Bloom v. DuBois Regional Medical Center

BECK, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting preliminary objections and dismissing some but not all of a multi-count complaint. The substantive issues on appeal raise challenging questions regarding the sufficiency of plaintiffs-appellants’ pleading. The first issue is whether appellants sufficiently pled gross negligence so as to fall within the exception to immunity provided to defendants-appellees by the Mental Health Procedures Act, Pa.Stat.Ann. tit. 50, *87§ 7114(a) (Purdon Supp.1990). The second issue is whether a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress is sufficiently…