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holding that settlement records concerning medical malpractice claims were public records under the Right to Know Law unless a statutoryexception to the act applied
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Argued November 17, 1998.
Decided: June 23, 1999.
Appeal No. 52 Middle District Appeal Docket 1998 from the order of the Commonwealth Court, 702 A.2d 869 (Pa.Commw. 1997), entered on November 6, 1997 at No. 1785 C.D. 1997, affirming the determination of the Medical Professional Liability Catastrophe Loss Fund, July 1, 1997.
Charles I. Artz, Harrisburg, for Legal Capital, LLC, et al.
Guy A. Donatelli, William H. Lamb, West Chester, Maureen M. McBride, for Medical Professional Liability Catastrophe Loss Fund.
Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 23rd day of June, 1999, the order of the Commonwealth Court is affirmed on the basis of its opinion. Legal Capital v. Medical Professional Liability Catastrophe Loss Fund, 702 A.2d 869 (1997).