APPLE ET AL. v. DEPT. OF INSURANCE ET AL.

No. 1361 C.D. 1980.

60 Pa.Commw. 492 (1981)

Nathan D. Apple, D.D.S. et al., Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Insurance and Pennsylvania Dental Service Corporation t/d/b/a Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

July 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Beckley, with him Bradley S. Gelder, Beckley & Madden, for petitioners.

David T. Kluz, Assistant Attorney General, with him Albert J. Strohecker, III, Assistant Attorney General, and Harvey Bartle, III, Acting Attorney General, for respondent, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Insurance.

James H. Stewart, Jr., with him Spencer G. Nauman, Jr., Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, for respondent, Delta Dental of Pennsylvania.

Argued April 8, 1981, before President Judge CRUMLISH and Judges BLATT and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE CRUMLISH, July 13, 1981:

This appeal by ten Pennsylvania dentists, the Pennsylvania Dental Association (DPA), and two of its employees is rooted in an Insurance Commission order dismissing their complaint against the Pennsylvania Dental Service Corporation, a/k/a Delta Dental Association of Pennsylvania (Delta). It held that they lacked standing to litigate alleged violations of the Professional Health Services Plan Corporations Act (PHSPCA...

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