Ronald Woods; Prehearing [31 Pa.B. 4708] Appeal of Ronald Woods; Under The Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law; Catastrophic Loss Benefits Continuation Fund; Doc. No. CF01-08-007
The proceedings in this matter will be governed by the Administrative Agency Law, 2 Pa.C.S. §§ 501--508, 701.704, the General Rules of Administrative Practice and Procedure, 1 Pa. Code § 31.1 et seq. and the Insurance Department's Special Rules of the Administrative Practice and Procedure, 31 Pa. Code Chapter 56.
A prehearing telephone conference initiated by this office is scheduled for September 11, 2001, at 1:30 p.m. Each party shall provide the Docket Clerk a telephone number to be used for the telephone conference on or before September 7, 2001. A date and place for a hearing shall be determined, if necessary, at the telephone conference. At the prehearing telephone conference, the parties shall be prepared to discuss settlement, stipulations, witnesses and the documents anticipated for use at the hearing, estimated time for the hearing, special evidentiary or legal issues and other matters relevant to the orderly, efficient and just resolution of this matter. Pending hearing, parties shall exchange proposed exhibits, the names of witnesses and provide an offer of proof with respect to each witness, and informally attempt to resolve undisputed facts by stipulation. On or before August 28, 2001, each party shall file with the Administrative Hearings Office a prehearing statement which shall contain: (1) a comprehensive statement of undisputed facts to be stipulated between the parties; (2) a statement of additional contended facts; (3) names and address of witnesses along with the specialties of experts to be called (4) a list of documents to be used at the hearing: (5) special evidentiary or other legal issues; and (6) the estimated time for that party's case. Contemporaneously with service of the prehearing statement on the opposing party, each party shall supply the other with a copy of any report generated by an expert witness designated on the prehearing statement. Any report subsequently received from a party's expert witness prior to hearing shall be supplied to the other party within 2 business days. Copies of expert reports need not be filed with the Administrative Hearings Office. Except as established at the prehearing telephone conference, both parties shall appear at the scheduled hearing prepared to offer all relevant testimony or other evidence. Each party must bring documents, photographs, drawings, claims, files, witnesses, and the like, necessary to support the party's case. A party intending to offer documents or photographs into evidence shall bring enough copies for the record and for each opposing party. Motions preliminary to those at hearing, protests, petitions to intervene or notice of intervention, if any, must be filed on or before August 28, 2001, with the Docket Clerk, Administrative Hearings Office, Capitol Associates Building, Room 200, 901 North Seventh Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. Answers to petitions to intervene, if any, shall be filed on or before September 25, 2001.
Persons with a disability who wish to attend the previously-referenced administrative hearing and require an auxiliary aid service or other accommodations to participate in the hearing, contact contact Tracey Pontius, Agency Coordinator at (717) 787-4298.
M. DIANE KOKEN,
Insurance Commissioner[Pa.B. Doc. No. 01-1587. Filed for public inspection August 24, 2001, 9:00 a.m.]
