LEONARD v. LATROBE AREA HOSP.


425 Pa.Super. 540 (1993)

625 A.2d 1228

Kenneth LEONARD, Shirley Ruffner and David L. Leonard, Administrators of The Estate of Elizabeth Gault, a/k/a Betty Gault, Appellants, v. LATROBE AREA HOSPITAL and George E. Mamo, M.D.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed June 3, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony W. Debernardo, Jr., Greensburg, for appellants.

Sheila M. Weis, Pittsburgh, for appellees.

Before DEL SOLE, FORD ELLIOTT and CERCONE, JJ.


CERCONE, Judge:

This appeal is from the learned lower court's order granting appellees' motion for summary judgment. The salient question we are asked to discuss and decide is as follows: What is the responsibility of a psychiatrist or psychologist to warn a third person of the violent propensities of a patient who is under his or her care when the patient does not specifically identify the victim whom the patient later harms. In Dunkle v. Food Service East, Inc...

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