The estate of a woman suing a Scranton doctor for malpractice does not have to pay the attorney fees and travel costs of the doctor and the hospital it is suing stemming from an out-of-state deposition of the estate’s medical expert, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.
Common Pleas Court Judge Terrence R. Nealon reached his decision after finding that the underlying claim reflected the estate’s only asset because the defense had other viable options in lieu of traveling to the expert deposition under dispute.
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