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Medical Liability: A Threat * Necessity Defense * In the News Medical Liability: A Threat to PA Health Care, Even if Venue Rules Don’t Change While the proposal to allow venue shopping in medical liability cases has garnered most of the attention recently, new studies show that health care professionals in Pennsylvania are already suffering under…

Statute of Limitations * Workers Comp Judge Fired * Promoting Litigation Reform at PLC PA House Votes to Reform Statutes of Limitations for Child Sexual Abuse Cases This week the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed two pieces of legislation designed to provide a greater period of time to prosecute and bring civil actions against those…

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg Attempts to Impact Policy in Attorney General’s Offices Was Pennsylvania’s Attorney General preparing to pursue climate change litigation when he applied for Bloomberg Philanthropies funded private attorneys to work in his office? Or was he contemplating another kind of environmental litigation or enforcement? These are some of the questions raised by the recent…

Help Wanted: PA Rules Committees ** Update on Venue Change Proposal ** Opposing Consent Jurisdiction ** Application for Fair Share Act Civil Justice Reform Minded-Lawyers Needed for Rules Committees If you share the PCCJR’s view that courts should treat all parties fairly and interpret statutes as intended by the legislature, please consider applying for one of the…

Venue Change Decision Delayed * Deeper Concerns About Rule Change Exposed * PCCJR Debates PA Association for Justice Venue Change Decision Delayed… For Now In a Valentines Day present to health care practitioners and patients, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced it would delay consideration of changing the venue rules for medical malpractice cases. In announcing the decision, the…

  Johnny Doc and Justice Doc ** Medical Malpractice Debate Heats Up  Johnny Doc and Justice Doc Last week the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania indicted labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, the long-time boss of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in Philadelphia. The indictmentalleges embezzlement, theft, wire fraud and…