Berhane v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Our Supreme Court has clearly held that the expressed legislative intent to insulate the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions from liability requires this Court to interpret the exceptions to sovereign and governmental immunity narrowly. Mascaro v. Youth Study Center, 514 Pa. 351, 523 A.2d 1118 (1987). The majority, however, while acknowledging that principle, departs from a significant body of case law by broadly interpreting the real estate exception to sovereign immunity and by liberalizing the degree of causation that has been required to sustain a cause of action against a…