Wolloch v. Aiken

OPINION

Chief Justice ZAPPALA.

This appeal involves consideration of discovery violations and sanctions and their interaction with procedural rules pertaining to summary judgment.

Appellee, Marjorie Wolloch, filed a medical malpractice complaint in 1994 against Doctors Aiken, Meltzer, and Keohane, and against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Pennsylvania Hospital. The complaint alleged that, as a result of the doctors’ and hospitals’ failure to recognize her symptoms and diagnose her condition, her treatment for cancer was improperly delayed, allowing a malignant tumor to grow and…