Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
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Pa. groups call for protection from coronavirus lawsuits for health care, reopened businesses
HARRISBURG – Leaders of multiple entities representing legal reform, business and health care interests statewide are pushing for the provision of safe harbor professional liability protections from the state to individuals and businesses responding to the coronavirus pandemic, in order for the state economy to quicken its recovery once the state re-opens. -
Pennsylvania health care groups fight Supreme Court ruling that gave plaintiffs longer to sue
HARRISBURG – Several Pennsylvania health care organizations, business groups and the attorneys representing them have joined forces in filing a brief seeking reconsideration of a key state Supreme Court decision that found the seven-year limit on filing medical malpractice lawsuits was “unconstitutional.” -
Health care group pleased Pennsylvania slowed down effort to erase medical malpractice litigation reform
PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania hospitals association is glad that a rulemaking process that would have overturned reforms implemented early this century has slowed.