by PPN | Sep 30, 2022 | latest_news, New Mexico, New York, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Venue shopping sprees to return to Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reversed a rule in place for two decades that maintained liability lawsuits should be filed in the jurisdiction where the alleged negligence occurred, inviting personal injury lawyers...
by PPN | Sep 30, 2022 | News, Pennsylvania
SOURCE: GoErie.com Pennsylvania’s highest court on Thursday took the controversial step of reversing a two-decade-old rule aimed at tamping down a crisis of doctors leaving the state because of high medical malpractice insurance costs. In a highly-anticipated order,...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Likelihood of liability lawsuits in the age of COVID-19 Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, liability protections for health care providers remain unresolved at the federal level. Health care and business groups, including the HCLA and its member organizations,...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | Pennsylvania
SOURCE: Law360 The criticisms of the temporary and targeted COVID-19 liability protections contained in Pennsylvania’s H.B. 1737, vetoed by Gov. Tom Wolf on Nov. 30, are long on rhetoric and short on facts. Wolf erroneously claimed the bill was...
by PPN | Jul 31, 2020 | National, Pennsylvania
SOURCE: Skadden Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) yesterday introduced H.R. 7538, the Essential Workforce Parity Act. If enacted, this legislation would extend paid leave required by the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA) to...
by PPN | Feb 27, 2020 | Iowa, National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania, Texas
The year ahead for patients and physicians Advocating for physicians in over 60 active lawsuits, the Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies has a busy year ahead in support of access to care. Brian D. Vandenberg, senior vice...
