Piehl v. City of Philadelphia

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Linda and William Piehl, husband and wife (the Piehls), appeal an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court) granting the Attorney General’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissing their complaint on the basis of sovereign immunity. In this case, we consider whether a Commonwealth agency is a party defendant if it is not correctly named in the caption of the complaint but is correctly named in the body of the complaint.

On March 8, 2005, the Piehls filed a complaint alleging that on March 18, 2003, Linda Piehl sustained injuries…