Pennsylvania Rule Setting Court for Medical Injury Cases Valid

A Pennsylvania woman failed in her bid to have declared invalid a state court rule that limits where medical malpractice plaintiffs may file their lawsuits because she didn’t argue that there was no rational basis for adopting it, a Pennsylvania court said.

Quiera Dockery didn’t explain how the provision—which mandates that health-care liability lawsuits must be brought only in the county where the cause of action arose—violates the state and federal constitution’s equal protection clauses, the Pennsylvania Superior Court said.

Dockery sued Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc. and other health-care providers in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia ...