A Philadelphia judge has decided to bring a lawsuit filed by Penn State against its insurance company to Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, after the insurer had filed its own lawsuit in the First Judicial District and the university countered with a separate action on its home field in Centre County.
In a two-paragraph order Tuesday, Judge Arnold L. New granted the request of Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance Co., which moved in February to coordinate and transfer the lawsuit to Philadelphia to eschew the “unavoidable risk” of the courts issuing contradictory decisions in the two cases.
