GALLAGHER v. PLCB


883 A.2d 550 (2005)

John GALLAGHER v. PENNSYLVANIA LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD, World Transportation, Inc., Envoy Warehouse, Inc. and Trans Freight Systems, Inc. Appeal of Trans Freight Systems, Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 28, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel P. Fishbein, Louis Evan Bricklin, Moira Clare Duggan, Philadelphia, for Trans Freight Systems, Inc.

Dean F. Murtagh, Kim R. Plouffe, Philadelphia, for John Gallagher.

Before: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and BAER, JJ.


OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed to consider whether a trial court presiding over a civil negligence case erred in refusing to bifurcate trial to avoid exposing jurors to information from which it could be inferred that the plaintiff may have received some compensation for his injuries from a collateral source.

In November of 1999, while working as an inventory picker in a warehouse operated by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board...

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