The Philadelphia judge who sanctioned attorney Nancy Raynor for close to $1 million for evoking a banned reference to smoking in a lung-cancer-related medical malpractice case—which resulted in a mistrial—said Raynor’s punishment was “reasonable.”
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Paul P. Panepinto said in an opinion Wednesday in response to Raynor’s appeal of the sanctions that Raynor was responsible for prolonging the case, causing the plaintiff to incur massive legal expenses.
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