Porterfield v. Trustees of Hospital of University of Pennsylvania

DEL SOLE, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order entering Summary Judgment in favor of Appellees. The court concluded that a general release signed in connection with an automobile accident case barred the Appellant’s subsequent claim for alleged medical malpractice arising out of treatment received following the accident. Because we agree with the court’s conclusion that the “breadth and the generality of the language used to describe the released parties” serves as a bar to recovery against a successive tortfeasor, we affirm.

The main thrust of Appellant’s argument before this court is that…