We successfully defeated the plaintiff's appeal to the Pennsylvania Superior Court from the dismissal of our client, a New Jersey doctor who was sued in Pennsylvania, in a claimed paraplegic medical malpractice case.

We successfully defeated the plaintiff's appeal to the Pennsylvania Superior Court from the dismissal of our client, a New Jersey doctor who was sued in Pennsylvania, in a claimed paraplegic medical malpractice case. The Court upheld our defense arguments and sustained the dismissal of the doctor for lack of in personam jurisdiction. The Court found that the mere fact that the plaintiff's harm was discovered in Pennsylvania, or that it manifested in Pennsylvania, does not necessarily mean it was caused in Pennsylvania. The Court stated, "Medical practices tend to be 'localized' within a single state" and that "courts are more likely to uphold specific jurisdiction over out-of-state physician" only "where the practice involves interstate activity, either through marketing or purposeful and continued treatment of foreign patient." As our defense explained in detail, none of those criteria existed in this case: the doctor restricted his practice to New Jersey and never saw patients in Pennsylvania, and his activities in Pennsylvania were incidental to his New Jersey alleged medical practice and had nothing to do with the plaintiff's infection or claimed paralysis.