COLLINS v. GREENE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL


419 Pa.Super. 519 (1992)

615 A.2d 760

Jean COLLINS, an Individual; and Terry Collins, Her Husband, Appellants, v. GREENE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, a Corporation; and Arunava Das, M.D.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed November 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Hinchliffe, Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Thomas J. Madigan, Pittsburgh, for appellee Greene County Memorial.

Before DEL SOLE, JOHNSON and FORD ELLIOTT, JJ.


DEL SOLE, Judge.

We are asked to consider the right of a litigant, under 42 Pa.C.S. § 5103, to transfer state claims from a federal district court to a court of common pleas following a judgment by the federal court on a federal claim and dismissal of the remaining state claims for lack of jurisdiction. The trial court determined that, because of a seven month delay between the federal court's dismissal of the state claims and the litigant's

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