NU Online News Service, March 18, 12:17 p.m. EDT

An agents group in Pennsylvania is hoping the state Legislature will pass a tort reform measure that it said would make the state a friendlier place to do business.

Kari Kissinger, government affairs director for the Insurance Agents & Brokers of Pennsylvania, said a coalition of 40 agents, carriers, manufacturers, retailers, local governments, hospitals and medical associations, and the Chamber of Commerce are working to advance a piece of tort reform legislation that has twice passed the Legislature, but has failed to become law.

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