Judge reaffirms three years of medical malpractice coverage at Lackawanna County prison
Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA)
Feb. 6 A judge Friday reaffirmed her prior ruling requiring the former provider of inmate medical care at the
Lackawanna County prison to secure medical malpractice coverage for three years.
Lackawanna County Court Judge
Moosic-based
Correctional Care Inc. to reconsider her
Jan. 29 ruling and instead require the county to pay for seven years of what s called tail insurance.
The dispute arose when the county last month replaced CCI, whose president and chief medical officer is Dr.
Edward Zaloga, as the medical provider at the prison. Tail insurance is an extension of coverage after a regular policy ends. While the county is on the hook to pay for tail insurance, only CCI, as the first-named insured party, can order it.