Schrock v. Albert Einstein Medical Center

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• instructing that Rule 238 as revised in 1988 applied to future actions and to pending actions where delay damages have not yet been determined
• Delay damages may be assessed even if defendant is free from fault in delay of trial
• delay damages may be assessed even if defendant is free from fault in delay of trial
• fundamental fairness requires that plaintiffs receive interest on what is essentially then-money for the period defendants held it until trial
• “Under former Rule 238, interest was calculated at 10% per annum.... Under revised Rule 238, interest is calculated at the rate equal to the prime rate ... plus one percent_”
• “[T]he mere fact that a defendant is not at fault in causing the delay in a case does not automatically relieve the defendant from being assessed delay damages under Rule 238.... [W]hen both parties are blameless it would be unreasonable and unjust to deny delay damages.”

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• Schrock v. Albert Einstein Medical Center
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-02· cited 24×