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· 8/16/2007

Holt v. NAVAPRO

Citations

  • 932 A.2d 915
  • 2007 Pa. Super. 243
  • 2007 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2604

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that medical providers could not be held liable for the “collateral consequences” of the plaintiff’s criminal convictions for robbery and assault
  • holding that plaintiff was barred from “benefitting in a civil suit flowing from his criminal convictions” where he committed crimes after escaping from a hospital’s supervision
  • “The common law principle that a person should not be permitted to benefit by his own wrongdoing, particularly his own crimes, prevents a plaintiff from recovering losses which flowed from those criminal acts.”

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Judges: Musmanno, Gantman, Panella

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