Albany
During the trial of ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last year, medical malpractice insurance executive Anthony Bonomo told jurors how Skelos had pressured him to hire the lawmaker’s son, Adam, to what amounted to a no-show job.
Prosecutors successfully argued that Skelos, in turn, pushed through legislation favorable to Bonomo’s company, Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers, including a 2015 bill that featured exemptions protecting malpractice insurers operating at a loss from liquidation by state regulators.
At the time, PRI and another company were the only two medical malpractice insurers running at a loss in New York.
But that’s not the only break granted by state government to the financially struggling firm…
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