In all, Wecht and Donohue received $1.7 mil- lion and $1.2 million, respectively, from PACs. In addition to opposing rules that tighten ac- cess to jury trials or restrict where people can file lawsuits in medical malpractice cases, the group opposes caps on awarding damages, he said.
from either party who are sensitive to keeping our courts open,” said Ezra Wohlgelernter, president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. Dougherty’s fellow Democratic candidates, Christine Donohue and David Wecht, received $775,000 and $700,000, respectively, from the committee. In all, the committee, which represents the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, donat- ed $850,00 0 to Dougherty’s campaign in 2015. 16 to Kevin Dougherty’s successful campaign for state Supreme Court - and the other $250,000 check it gave him less than a month later. Then there are the big tickets, like the $250, 000 check the Committee for a Better To- morrow gave on Sept. Some of those are the routine expenses any organization ends up paying, such as a $2 bank charge or $5 notary fee. Campaign finance records list nearly 84,000 separate expenditures - about 160 payments for every business day of the last two years. The interests they represent reach from pub- lic education to automobile insurance to medi- cal malpractice claims.
0 kommentar(er)
