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MAAS v. UPMC PRESBYTERIAN SHADYSIDE

No. 7 WAP 2019.

234 A.3d 427 (2020)

Laura L. MAAS, Administratrix of the Estate of Lisa Christine Maas, Deceased, Appellee, v. UPMC PRESBYTERIAN SHADYSIDE d/b/a Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic; Michelle Barwell, M.D.; and Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic Adult Community Treatment Team, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: July 21, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Blum, Esq. , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Philadelphia, for Amici Curiae.

Megan Justine Block, Esq. , John C. Conti, Esq. , Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Appellants.

Michael W. Calder, Esq. , Renee A. Metal, Esq. , Jon Robert Perry, Esq. , Neil R. Rosen, Esq. , Rosen & Perry, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Appellees.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.

OPINION

We consider the duty of mental health treatment providers to warn individuals who may be the subject of their patient's threats. In the present appeal, the mental health patient lived in a forty-unit apartment building and repeatedly told...

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