Pittsman v. Perrone

NEALON, J.,

Relying upon the expiration of the one-year statute of limitations under 42 *17Pa.C.S.A. § 5523(1), the healthcare defendants’ motion for summary judgment seeks to dismiss plaintiff’s claims for defamation and tortious interference with business relations on the grounds that both causes of action are predicated upon the same operative facts and are, therefore, governed by the same one-year limitations period. Plaintiffs binding judicial admissions reflect that the gist of his tortious interference claim is defendants’ alleged defamatory acts of concluding that plaintiff was not…