Legal Opinion
Estate of Witthoeft v. Kiskaddon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 8, 1999PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CAPPY, Justice.
We granted allocatur in order to address a significant and far-reaching issue of first impression. The issue before us is whether a physician may be held liable for injuries suffered by a third party in an automobile accident caused by the physician’s patient. More specifically, will an ophthalmologist be held liable to a third party where the ophthalmologist failed to inform his patient or the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) of the patient’s poor visual acuity, and subsequently, the patient injured the third party while driving her automobile? For…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Touche Ross & Co. v. RedingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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- Hoy v. AngeloneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
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