SNYDER v. POCONO MEDICAL CENTER


440 Pa.Super. 606 (1995)

656 A.2d 534

Cathy L. SNYDER and Kenneth Snyder, Appellees, v. POCONO MEDICAL CENTER and Rose Galozzo, R.N., Appellants.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided January 23, 1995.

Reargument Denied April 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Penny, Jr., Philadelphia, for appellants.

John R. Vivian, Jr., Easton, for appellees.

Before ROWLEY, P.J., and WIEAND and SAYLOR, JJ.


WIEAND, Judge:

In this appeal the controlling issue is whether the exclusivity clause of the Worker's Compensation Act is applicable to bar a tort action against a hospital and its nurse by an employee who was exposed to tuberculosis during the course of her employment and who later discovered that the hospital's employee health monitoring program, available only to employees of the hospital, had failed to detect timely and treat properly her disease. After careful...

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