Welcome to ProtectPA
ProtectPA is a PA-based SuperPAC that runs Independent Expenditure campaigns on issues important to Keystone conservatives.
Among PA Independent voters, 70% of them say “lawsuits should instead be heard in the county where the incident occurred, so the jury is comprised of people who best understand the health care concerns of their community”; just 17% say any “lawsuits should be heard wherever the trial lawyers think the case will yield the most money, even if that hurts hospitals and doctors.”
In late 2022 the Trial Bar got the PA Supremes to grant loosened Venue rules in such Med0mal cases for a trial period. Getting all 3 Democratic Justices Retained in November would embolden the Trial Bar to get these special Med-mal venue rules made permanent.
As SpotlightPA.com wrote in 2022, “Pennsylvania’s highest court on Thursday took the controversial step of reversing a two-decade-old rule aimed at tamping down a crisis of doctors leaving the state because of high medical malpractice insurance costs.”
Imagine this now-legal scenario…
Bob drives from his home in Pittsburgh to a Penn State home game and gets into a car accident with Rosemary from Erie, who also came into State College for the game. Where should a resulting Med-mal lawsuit be heard? Pittsburgh? Erie? State College? No, no and no. The Supreme Court changed its rules so now this lawsuit can be heard anywhere in the state that a Trial lawyer wishes…which means Philadelphia. Yep, Philly, because that’s where the Supreme Court’s big funders, Trial lawyers, get the largest settlements.
A F&M College poll out earlier in October shows that about a third to 39% of voters are still undecided on their Retention vote, with the Yes vote now slightly outpacing the No vote.
Remember to Vote No on Nov. 4th.