Black v. Shrewsbury Borough

In my dissenting opinion in Jones v. Chieffo, 664 A.2d 1091 (Pa.Cmwlth.1995), petition for allowance of appeal filed, October 6, 1995, also a police chase case, I followed the *386traditional “causation analysis” first employed in Mascaro v. Youth Study Center, 514 Pa. 351, 523 A.2d 1118 (1987), that 42 Pa.C.S. 8541 precludes a local agency liability for the “acts of others.” In footnote 4, however, I suggested that a better interpretation would be that the language precluded joint and several liability and had nothing to do with precluding liability based on who caused the accident. I did not…