· 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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