Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Pa. Gov: Insurers Should Postpone MCARE Collection to Allay Med-Mal Crisis
Dec 2 2002 // Pa. Gov. Calls for Postponement of MCARE to Allay Med-Mal Crisis Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker announced he has directed Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken to request a postponement of Medical Care Availability and...
$100,000 in Stolen Equipment Recovered in Pa.
Nov 28 2002 // A new partnership between the National Equipment Register (NER) and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) is beginning to put a dent in heavy equipment theft with the recovery of more than $100,000 in stolen equipment...
Pa. Senate Rejects Ban on Use of Credit-Based Scores
Nov 20 2002 // A last-minute effort to prohibit the use of credit-based insurance scores in auto insurance underwriting and rating was rejected by the Pennsylvania Senate. National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) Counsel Ann...
Pa. Insurance Dept. Closes Unlicensed Agency
Nov 18 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken today announced the closing of an unlicensed insurance company and the penalty and license revocation of the insurance agent responsible for its illegal...
Pa. JUA Offers Med-Mal Discount to Physicians with No Claims
Nov 4 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced that at the request of Gov. Mark Schweiker, the state insurance department has approved a filing by the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting...
A.M. Best Reports Med-Mal Crisis Adding to Health Insurer Woes
Oct 30 2002 // Rising medical-malpractice insurance premiums for doctors and hospitals are adding to already budget-busting medical-cost inflation, according to the special report, “The Impact of the Med-Mal Insurance Crisis on...
Pa. Agriculture Secretary Touts Benefits of Crop Insurance
Oct 25 2002 // Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Sam Hayes kicked off a 2002-03 crop insurance education and outreach program at the behest of Gov. Mark Schweiker during the third annual Crop Insurance Conference in...
