Whitaker v. Frankford Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that, once defendant presented defense, “the trial court’s refusal to grant . . . a compulsory nonsuit became moot.”
• stating that a trial court’s admission of expert testimony will not be disturbed absent a manifest abuse of discretion
• explaining that “[o]nce a jury verdict in favor of [the a]ppellees was entered, the issue became whether the trial court erred in failing to grant them [JNOV]”
• explaining that “[o]nce a jury verdict in favor of [the a]ppellees was entered, the issue became whether the trial court erred in failing to grant them judgment notwithstanding the verdict”
• utilizing evidence of the severity of injuries and the permanent nature of the injury without citing Kemp factors
• ruling MSJ as to causation was mooted by trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).