Ludmer v. Nernberg

JOHNSON, Judge.

Attorney Maurice A. Nernberg, Jr., appeals from the judgment entered following a jury award of $25,000 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages to Mario Ludmer, M.D., in an action brought pursuant to the Wrongful Use of Civil Proceedings Act (the Act), 42 Pa.C.S. § 8351 et seq. We affirm.

In June 1984, Ludmer brought this civil action seeking damages pursuant to the Act, following the entry of summary judgment in his favor in an earlier case instituted by Nemberg against Ludmer, docketed at GD79-6085 in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, affd, Nernberg…