Basile v. H & R BLOCK, INC.

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

This Court granted allocatur to address questions concerning the scope and contours of agency relationships under Pennsylvania law. Specifically, we must determine whether appellees produced sufficient evidence of an agency relationship between appellants H & R Block, Inc., H & R Block Eastern Tax Services, Inc. (collectively “Block”) and appellants’ Rapid Refund customers so that appellees’ class action complaint that Block breached a fiduciary duty to those customers may survive summary judgment.

H & R Block, Inc., provides tax preparation services…