REAVES v. KNAUER

No. 1187 C.D. 2008.

979 A.2d 404 (2009)

Joseph REAVES, Appellant v. Julie KNAUER, CHCA and Donna Hale, former CHCA and State Correctional Institute at Graterford Medical Department and Dr. Benjamin Robinson and Norman B. Stempler, D.O. and Castor Medical.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 13, 2009.

Publication Ordered August 10, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Reaves, appellant, pro se.

Claudia M. Tesoro, Sr., Deputy Attorney General, Philadelphia, and John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Harrisburg, for appellees, Julie Knauer and State Correctional Institute at Graterford Medical Department.

George L. Young, Jr., Philadelphia, for appellee, Norman B. Stempler, D.O.

BEFORE: PELLEGRINI, Judge, and SIMPSON, Judge, and McCLOSKEY, Senior Judge.


OPINION BY Judge SIMPSON.

In this appeal, Joseph Reaves (Plaintiff) asserts error in the denial of his petitions to open judgments of non pros in his medical malpractice action against Julie Knauer, the Medical Department at SCI-Graterford (Medical Department), and Dr. Norman B. Stempler (collectively, Defendants). The Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (trial court) denied Plaintiff's petition to open judgment of non pros in favor of Knauer and the Medical...

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