Pa. Decides Now Not Time to Raise Medical Malpractice Coverage
It has been concluded in Pennsylvania that there is not evidence of sufficient market capacity at the current time to mandate an increase in primary medical malpractice insurance limits in Pennsylvania. Deputy Insurance Commissioner Randy Rohrbaugh has ruled. He was responding to a proposal in state law to raise limits from $500,000 to $750,000 the primary coverage health care providers must obtain from private commercial insurance carriers. "In making this decision, our priority was to protect the consumers who are accessing health care in the state," Rohrbaugh said. "We did not want to prematurely raise the limits before there is adequate capacity in the medical malpractice insurance marketplace, as this could have an adverse effect on the availability of health care."
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