STENGER v. LEHIGH VALLEY HOSP. CENTER


386 Pa.Super. 574 (1989)

563 A.2d 531

William R. STENGER, Donna A. Stenger, Craig Stenger and Barry Stenger, Appellants, v. LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL CENTER, Samuel Huston, Theodore J. Matulewcz, M.D., Barry H. Slaven, M.D., Hospital Central Services, Inc., H.C.S.C.-Blood Center Trading as Samuel W. Miller Memorial Blood Center, Lyndal Molthan, M.D., and Joseph Yelo, Appellees. William R. STENGER, Donna A. Stenger, Craig Stenger and Barry Stenger, Appellees, v. LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL CENTER, Samuel Huston, Theodore J. Matulewcz, M.D., Barry H. Slaven, M.D., Hospital Central Services, Inc., H.C.S.C.-Blood Center Trading as Samuel W. Miller Memorial Blood Center, Lyndal Molthan, M.D., and Joseph Yelo, Appellees, Appeal of LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 2, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela W. Higgins, Philadelphia, for Stenger, appellants (at 2639) and appellees (at 2640).

Georgine A. Olexa, Allentown, for Lehigh Valley, appellants (at 2640) and appellees (at 2639).

David L. Haber, Philadelphia, for Molthan and Yelo, appellees.

Before DEL SOLE, MELINSON and HOFFMAN, JJ.


DEL SOLE, Judge.

An order permitting the filing of interlocutory cross-appeals provides the basis for our consideration of the proper extent of discovery available to the parties in this case.

Appellants, the Stengers, ask us to consider whether the trial court erred in refusing to permit them to discover the identity of a blood donor, (Donor) and the identities of recipients of blood from this particular Donor. In a cross-appeal Appellant, Lehigh Valley Hospital...

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