A Pennsylvania man’s defamation claim against medical providers tasked with physically evaluating him for a truck-driving job appears to have sunken his claim for tortious interference against the medical defendants.
Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas Judge Terrence R. Nealon said that because plaintiff David Pittsman’s claim that Dr. David Perrone defamed him and Perrone’s alleged defamatory statement were the sole grounds for his tortious interference claim that Perrone prevented him from securing a job as a truck driver, the one-year statute of limitations for defamation claims governed the entire lawsuit.
