SAINT LUKE'S HOSP. OF BETHLEHEM v. VIVIAN

No. 2438 EDA 2013

99 A.3d 534 (2014)

2014 PA Super 171

SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania d/b/a St. Luke's Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network, Appellants v. John R. VIVIAN, Jr., Esq., Martin D. Cohen, Esq., Cohen & Feeley, P.C., Dr. John Shane, M.D., Harry H. Miller, Executor of the Estate of Regina C. Miller, Appellees. Saint Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania d/b/a St. Luke's Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network, Appellants v. John R. Vivian, Jr., Esq., Martin D. Cohen, Esq., Cohen & Freeley, P.C., Dr. John D. Shane, M.D., Robert E. Hall, Jr. and Leslie A. Hall, Co-executors of the Estate of Marilyn J. Hall, Deceased, Appellees.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed August 18, 2014.

Reargument Denied October 15, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur W. Hankin and Lewis W. Schlossberg , Philadelphia, for appellants.

Francis S. Blatcher, III , Media, for Vivian, appellee.

BEFORE: ALLEN, JENKINS, and FITZGERALD, JJ.


OPINION BY ALLEN, J.:

St. Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania d/b/a St. Luke's Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network, ("Appellant"), appeals from the trial court's order overruling Appellant's claims of privilege, denying a protective order in favor of Appellant, and sanctioning Appellant pursuant to a motion by John R. Vivian, Jr. Esquire ("Attorney")1. We affirm.

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