Gillette v. REDINGER

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This is an appeal by Noel J. Gillette, M.D., from the decision of the Administrator for Arbitration Panels for Health Care sustaining preliminary objections of Kenneth J. and Nancy E. Redinger (Plaintiffs) to Gillette’s complaint to join an additional defendant in an action which Plaintiffs had instituted against Gillette under Pennsylvania’s new Health Care Services Malpractice Act (Act).

This case is one of first impression, bringing before us the novel question of the jurisdiction of the Arbitration Panels for Health Care and the intended scope of the Act.

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