249 Notice to medical malpractice insurance carriers; Pennsylvania medical malpractice data call (Act 13 of 2002 data call)

Notice to Medical Malpractice Insurance Carriers; Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Data Call (Act 13 of 2002 Data Call)

[45 Pa.B. 736]
[Saturday, February 7, 2015]

 The Insurance Department (Department) is conducting a medical malpractice data call to study the availability of additional basic coverage capacity in the Pennsylvania medical malpractice marketplace. This data call is required by section 711(d)(3) of the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act (40 P. S. § 1303.711(d)(3)).

 Consistent with prior data calls promulgated under section 711(d)(3) of the MCARE Act, the cover letter, exhibits and templates are available on the Department's web site at www.insurance.pa.gov (click on ''Services for Insurance Companies,'' then ''Industry Activity,'' then ''Data Calls''). An e-mail announcing the data call was sent on January 23, 2015, to all medical malpractice insurers with positive direct written premium in this Commonwealth in 2013.

 Each insurer providing medical professional liability insurance in this Commonwealth is required to respond to the data call no later than April 1, 2015. Insurers with positive medical malpractice direct written premium in this Commonwealth in 2013 are identified in Exhibit 2 of the data call and a response is required from each insurer listed. Data for more than one insurer should not be combined into a single submission.

 The Department will consider the data submitted as proprietary and handle it accordingly.

 Questions regarding this data call should be directed to James Di Santo, Insurance Department, Office of Insurance Product Regulation, 1311 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120, [phone], [e-mail].

TERESA D. MILLER, 
Acting Insurance Commissioner

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 15-249. Filed for public inspection February 6, 2015, 9:00 a.m.]