Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pa. Takes Action Against Companies Reported to be Unlicensed
Mar 5 2003 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken has closed down the reported illegal insurance operations of the following companies: *International Water Safety Foundation (IWSF) of London, England *Water Safety Services...
PA Governor Issues Statement Promising $220 Million Med Mal Premium Abatement Plan
Mar 3 2003 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell released a statement on Friday promising short-term economic relief for physicians struggling to pay medical malpractice premiums. The text is as follows: “Two months ago, I...
Med Mal Fever: When Doctors Walk Out, Politicians Notice
Feb 24 2003 // They’re baaack. High-flying medical malpractice liability claims losses, that is. The availability crisis of the 1970s and the affordability crisis of the 1980s may be nothing compared to the crisis insurers and...
Pa. Hospitals Applaud House Republicans’ Request for State of Emergency
Feb 18 2003 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) recognized state House Republicans as they called for Governor Ed Rendell (D) to declare a state of emergency in the Commonwealth as a result of the...
PA Hospitals Applaud Medical Liability Insurance Reform Bill
Feb 11 2003 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) praised the efforts of Congressmen Jim Greenwood (R-Erwinna) and John Murtha (D-Johnstown) for reintroducing the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost,...
Western PA Hospital Council Comments on President’s Med Mal Reform Proposals
Jan 30 2003 // The Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (HCWP) applauded the remarks made by President Bush in his State of the Union address Tuesday night on medical malpractice reform, noting that it had pushed the issue into the...
PA Gov.-elect takes Issue with Bush on Med Mal Limits
Jan 20 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Governor-elect, Democrat Ed Rendell, who was not among those invited to hear President Bush’s speech at the University of Scranton last week, in which he endorsed limits on “non-economic...
PA Governor, Hospitals Support President’s Call for Med Mal Reform
Jan 17 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Governor Schweiker and The Hospital & Healthsystem Association lined up behind the state’s doctors in supporting President Bush’s call for comprehensive reforms the nation’s...
NAII Notes PA Medical Society Refutes Recent “Premium Deceit” Report
Jan 16 2003 // The Pennsylvania Medical Society (PMS) has issued a critique of the recent report by the Center for Justice & Democracy entitled “Premium Deceit.” PMS points out that, contrary to the report’s stated...
PA Hospitals Hail Proposal to Limit Non-economic Damages
Jan 15 2003 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) broadly hailed the introduction by State Senator Jake Corman (R-Centre) of a resolution that begins the process of limiting non-economic damages through...
Capital BlueCross Against Proposed Pa. Health Insurance Tax
Jan 6 2003 // Capital BlueCross President and CEO James Mead issued a statement supporting Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Ed Rendell’s proposed health insurance reserve tax to help alleviate the state’s medical malpractice...
Pa. Governor Approves NAIC Producer Licensing Model Act
Jan 1 2003 // Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker has approved the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Producer Licensing Act in a move applauded by the American Insurance Association (AIA). Language concerning...
PA Doctors Threaten January Shutdown over Med Mal Costs
Dec 30 2002 // Surgeons in Scranton have issued a warning that they could effectively go on strike as early as January if something isn’t done to relieve the ever-increasing cost of medical malpractice insurance premiums in the...
Blizzard Batters Midwest, then Northeast – A Real White Christmas
Dec 27 2002 // A powerful blizzard roared through the Midwest and moved on into Pennsylvania, New York and New England over Christmas bringing record snowfalls for this time of year and blanketing a wide swath of the U.S. with a real...
New Med-Mal Providers Approved for Pennsylvania
Dec 25 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced that two new medical-malpractice insurance entities—Pennsylvania Health Providers Reciprocal Exchange of Harrisburg and United Central PA Reciprocal Risk...
Pa. Supreme Court: Workers’ Comp Payments Recoupable from Malpractice Suit Proceeds
Dec 19 2002 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that insurers can recoup workers’ compensation payments from malpractice suit proceeds made to injured employees who sue their lawyers for mishandling their...
NAII: Pa. Med Mal Reform Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Dec 6 2002 // NAII: Pa. Med Mal Reform Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough Responding to the news that the Pennsylvania State Legislature passed only one of a number of bills aimed at alleviating the state’s medical malpractice...
Pa. Independent Agent Associations Merge
Dec 5 2002 // Members of two Pennsylvania independent agent associations, The Independent Insurance Agents of Pennsylvania (IIAP) and the Pennsylvania members of Professional Insurance Agents Association (PIA) of Pennsylvania, Maryland...
Iroquois Expands Pa. Operations
Dec 5 2002 // Iroquois Mid-Atlantic, a unit of The Iroquois Group, announced its expansion into Pennsylvania, and appointed Robert Weidler as regional manager for that state. Weidler joins Iroquois with over 30 years experience in...
AAI Urges Pa. to Enact Producer Licensing Reform
Dec 3 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) is pressing Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker to sign a bill recently passed by the State Legislature that would implement producer licensing reform. If the governor signs the bill as...
