The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether a new damages trial is warranted in a logging accident case that produced $135,000 in survival damages for a victim’s widow, but nothing for the wrongful death claim.

Allowance of appeal was granted by the justices on Oct. 22 in McMichael v. McMichael, but was not limited to the jury’s decision not to award wrongful death damages.

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