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A Northern Virginia family's guide to wrongful death claims in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania. I walk readers through the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death Act at 42 Pa.C.S. Section 8301, the parallel Survival Act at Section 8302, the MCARE Act medical malpractice framework with Certificate of Merit and 7-year statute of repose, the Fair Share Act 60-percent threshold for joint and several liability, the 2-year SOL framework, the modified comparative fault 51-percent bar, the Sovereign Immunity Act and Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act caps, and how NoVA-to-Pittsburgh travel ties (PIT airport, UPMC, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, major Pittsburgh-headquartered businesses, Marcellus Shale energy operations) produce cross-jurisdictional cases.

A Northern Virginia family's guide to wrongful death claims in Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania. Same Pennsylvania legal substrate as my Pittsburgh guide, with the eastern PA case-pattern focus: Penn Medicine, CHOP, Jefferson, Temple, and the major Philadelphia-area hospital systems; the pharma and biotech corridor; the I-95 corridor connecting Philly to NoVA; the Atlantic City overlap with the New Jersey wrongful death framework; the Jersey Shore vacation case pattern; and the major Philadelphia-headquartered businesses and universities (Comcast, FMC, GSK, Cigna, Wharton, UPenn, Drexel, Temple).