Most discussion about venue, in the last few years, addresses venue in the medical malpractice context. The U.S. Supreme Court imposed a standard that venue in medical malpractice cases could only lie where the tort occurred. This was in reaction to the legislature attempting to usurp the Supreme Court and impose its own venue rule. Of late, the Supreme Court relented in its views and restored the medical profession to the place of all other venue rules. Venue, in a medical malpractice case, could reside where the defendant could be found doing business on a continuous and substantial basis.

Any case involving a venue controversy, especially one that reaches the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, could have implications for medical malpractice venue, as well as for many other arenas of law.