A Philadelphia judge has thrown out the loss of consortium claims raised by a same-sex couple in a medical malpractice case against Temple University Health System.
The judge’s one-page order in Wolf v. Associates of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery comes amid a flurry of activity in the state regarding the rights of same-sex couples, including a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage, a promise from Attorney General Kathleen Kane not to defend the ban and a Montgomery County official’s decision to grant two same-sex couples marriage licenses.
