The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument in a case in which a new medical malpractice trial was granted over a lawyer’s comment made to a witness about the plaintiff not having a certain medical expert.

Allowance of appeal was granted by the justices in a March 2 order in former Chicago Bears defensive back Craig Steltz’s lawsuit against a surgeon who treated him for a hernia and allegedly failed to disclose the existence of a muscle tear in his leg.

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