Pennsylvania is facing new and unexpected challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health care providers and businesses large and small are incurring risk to provided life-saving care, equipment, and goods to get us all through this public health crisis. They deserve our gratitude and support. Yet, this week the legislature went home without…
Coalition Updates: Health Care
PAMED is Looking for a Few Retired Docs
PCCJR’s partner, The Pennsylvania Medical Society isencouraging physicians to sign up for SERVAPA as volunteers to provide care during a surge. PAMED also is recruiting recently retired physicians to sign up for temporary licenses to serve patients during this pandemic. http://www.pamedsoc.org/coronavirus
Healthcare Workers Lauded as Doing “God’s Work!”
COVID-19 has brought to light a whole new cohort of first responders! Health care providers, grocery store workers and truck drivers who are delivering goods are a new kind of front-line. PCCJR is in full agreement with these impassioned comments by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo regarding the doctors, nurses and other essential service providers…
PA Supreme Court Closes Courts, Cancels April Arguments
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has canceled arguments in late April as part of a statewide effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The cases that were scheduled for argument will be decided on the briefs already submitted to the courts unless parties request otherwise. The Supreme Court declared a statewide judicial emergency on March 18,…
Senate Judiciary Committee Postpones Hearing on LBFC’s Venue Report
The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the LBFC’s medical liability venue report, originally scheduled for March 23, has been postponed. PCCJR will update you as soon as it is rescheduled. As Pennsylvania continues to deal with the threat posed by the COVID-19 virus, we will all be adjusting to the new reality of schedule disruption.…
Supreme Court’s Decision Striking Down Statute of Repose Will Stand
We sure would have liked a second bite at this apple. Instead, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court gave trial lawyers an early Valentine’s Day gift on January 31 when it denied our requested re-argument in Yanakos v. UPMC. The high court refused to hear re-arguments on its earlier ruling which found the statute of repose in medical liability…