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The recent narrative from “civil justice reform” groups about large medical malpractice verdicts overlooks a crucial reality: these awards primarily reflect the enormous lifetime healthcare costs that injured patients face. The notion that "ballooning verdicts" are imperiling healthcare institutions and driving up costs misrepresents the true drivers of why victims of medical malpractice are awarded damages – the increasing prevalence of preventable medical errors and the healthcare system’s resistance to accountability.
President Donald Trump vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out “lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.
Republican and Democratic campaigners say the outcome could shape policy and politics for a decade or more
Will he or won’t he? That is the question of the day as state Sen. Doug Mastriano is hinting that he is up for another run for governor of Pennsylvania.
The Democratic-majority court has played a big role in defusing election challenges. With electoral maps at stake, Republicans are mobilizing for a takeover.
House Democrats hammered Republicans on health care to win back the majority in 2018. Now, they are preparing to punish them again.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday that President Donald Trump ’s administration has freed up billions in federal aid that the Democrat had accused it of withholding illegally and unconstitutionally.
Right now, corporate shills – specifically insurance company and hospital administration shills – are focused on the size of select jury verdicts in medical malpractice cases in the wake of a 2022 rule change by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that leveled the playing field for plaintiffs and governs the jurisdiction in which a medical malpractice case can be brought.
Community and Economic Development Secretary Rick Siger addressed House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday
Gov. Josh Shapiro has announced his nominations for a pair of Cabinet positions.
The governor tapped Dr. Carrie Rowe to serve as Secretary of the Department of Education (PDE), while also selecting Jessica Shirley for the post of Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
