Doctor's Choice Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center, P.C. v. Travelers Personal Insurance Co.

OPINION

Chief Justice SAYLOR.

This appeal concerns ongoing controversy over the availability of attorneys’ fee awards against insurance companies that have invoked the peer-review provisions of the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law, which also was the context of this Court’s recent decision in Herd Chiropractic Clinic v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 619 Pa. 438, 64 A.3d 1058 (2013).

In 2004, Angela LaSelva sustained injuries in a motor vehicle accident. She treated with David G. Novatnak, D.C., a licensed chiropractor practicing with Appellee Doctor’s Choice Physical…