Riccio v. American Republic Insurance

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

This Court granted allocatur in this matter in order to address two issues. The first issue is whether the coordinate jurisdiction rule barred a judge involved in the post-trial motion phase of the litigation sub judice from reversing the ruling of another judge of a coordinate court in the same matter. The second issue is, if the coordinate jurisdiction rule does not act as a bar, whether the term “spine”, as used in the exclusion provision of the medical insurance policy issued by appellee to appellant, included the intervertebral disc injury suffered…