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Most rental car companies balk at recall legislation

June 25, 2012 The Philadelphia Inquirer (6/24, Gelles) ranked Hertz as the only car rental company to take up Sen. Barbara Boxer’s call for the industry “not to rent or sell any vehicles under safety recall until the defect has been remedied.” Rosemary Shahan, president of California’s Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, pegs Enterprise … Read more

Number of Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Claims On The Decline

May 11, 2012 Philadelphia Magazine‘s “Be Well Philly” blog (5/8, Hingston) reported two significant rules changes made a decade ago by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have reduced medical malpractice lawsuits in the state by 44.1 percent from their levels in 2000-2002, and “a whopping 65 percent” in Philadelphia, where medical malpractice suits “fell from 1,365 … Read more