The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to decide whether a law granting immunity to health care providers who treat mental illness should have been applied to a drug addiction treatment facility and its two physicians who treated a man while he was suffering from an opioid addiction.

In July of last year, a three-judge Superior Court panel determined that the two doctors who treated the man after he was transferred from the drug treatment facility should not have been afforded liability protections under the Mental Health Procedures Act. The ruling reversed a decision by the Chester County Court of Common Pleas, but affirmed the lower court’s additional holding that the drug treatment facility and its two physicians should be granted immunity under the MHPA.