A unanimous Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has ruled that a nursing home can be held corporately liable for its actions. Writing that such liability is already imposed on hospitals, health maintenance organizations and medical professional corporations, the panel held that nursing homes were similar to those organizations in that they provide “comprehensive and continual physical care.” They are not, the court said, like a physician’s outpatient office, which is not susceptible to corporate liability claims.

Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp. has won an injunction blocking a delinquent franchisee from operating in New York’s Pennsylvania Station and another location. A federal judge granted the preliminary injunction on the grounds that Satellite Donuts was behind on its obligations under its agreements with Krispy Kreme and is in violation of the Lanham Act

Despite a plaintiff’s argument that upholding the dismissal of the first hormone replacement therapy tort case to reach Pennsylvania’s highest court conflicts with succeeding case law in Pennsylvania’s HRT litigation, the state Supreme Court is leaving intact a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of drugmaker Wyeth.

Federal prosecutors are demanding a longer prison sentence for former Pennsylvania state Sen.

An attorney has been charged with assault after authorities say he repeatedly punched his opposing counsel during an argument in a Pennsylvania courthouse. Police say Michael Rauch threw three roundhouse punches at attorney John Fisher at the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton on Thursday. According to court papers, Rauch told sheriff’s deputies that he had told Fisher to leave him alone but that he continued to harass him.