The state Supreme Court has ruled that an insurer cannot be ordered to pay a medical provider’s attorney fees when the insurer properly employed the peer review process before denying coverage because it deemed the medical care unnecessary.
In Herd Chiropractic Clinic v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance, the justices ruled 4-2 to reverse a Superior Court decision that unanimously affirmed a Dauphin County trial court’s ruling awarding $27,047 in attorney fees to plaintiff Herd Chiropractic Clinic and against State Farm.
