Ehritz v. Cappriotti

MONTEMURO, Judge:

This case is before the court on appeal from the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County sustaining the defendant’s Preliminary Objections to jurisdiction and the transferring of the action to the Administrator of the Medical Malpractice Arbitration Panels. The question before the lower court was whether the action fell within the purview of the Health Care Services and Malpractice Act 1 or whether the action could have been brought in trespass in the Court of Common Pleas.

We now find it unnecessary to make a determination on the merits. In Mattos v.…