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Pennsylvania Approves Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs Drop of 8.67%
Apr 11 2025 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) has approved a workers’ compensation filing with an 8.67% reduction in loss costs. New or renewal policies issued on or after April 1, 2025 will be subject to the new loss...
Marsh McLennan Agency Acquires Pennsylvania’s Arthur Hall
Apr 10 2025 // Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), a business of Marsh, announced the acquisition of Arthur Hall Insurance, a West Chester, Pennsylvania-based insurance agency. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 1966,...
Staffers Face Allegations Related to Abuse of Pennsylvania Charter School Students
Apr 7 2025 // Twenty staffers at a suburban Philadelphia charter school are facing charges related to the alleged physical abuse of students using painful, unapproved techniques to restrain and punish youths in a program meant to help...
Pennsylvania Woman Charged With Filing Claim on Barn Pulled Down by TV Show
Apr 4 2025 // A Pennsylvania woman who sold part of her barn for use in a barn-rebuilding TV reality show now faces charges after investigators said she filed a fraudulent wind claim on the structure. Tracey Jeffreys, 63, of the Milton...
Huge AI Data Center Planned for Pennsylvania Coal Plant Site
Apr 3 2025 // A huge natural gas-powered data center that will serve the growing demands of artificial intelligence is being planned for the site of a former coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania. The 3,200-acre (1,295-hectare) data...
Pennsylvania’s Union County Suffers Ransomware Attack
Mar 25 2025 // Pennsylvania’s Union County is dealing with a ransomware attack that has likely exposed personally identifiable information, mostly related to individuals involved with the county’s law enforcement, courts, and...
Lawsuit Aims to End LGBTQ Antidiscrimination Protections in Pennsylvania
Mar 11 2025 // Two public school districts and several parents have sued Pennsylvania in a bid to undo antidiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people, saying the state’s two-year-old regulation is illegal because it...
Energy Transfer Fuel Leak in Pennsylvania Lasted 16 Months, PHMSA Says
Feb 28 2025 // A pipeline operated by Energy Transfer LP leaked jet fuel for at least 16 months, contaminating residential water wells in Pennsylvania, and the conduit may be at risk for further incidents, according to a preliminary...
Pennsylvania Shootout Highlights Rising Violence Against US Hospital Workers
Feb 25 2025 // A man who took hostages in a Pennsylvania hospital during a shooting that killed a police officer and wounded five other people highlights the rising violence against U.S. healthcare workers and the challenge of protecting...
Pennsylvania’s NSM to Sell Commercial Insurance Division to Investment Firm
Feb 25 2025 // New Mountain Capital, an investment firm, has agreed to buy the commercial insurance division of Pennsylvania-based NSM Insurance Group. The firms said in a news release that the deal is expected to close in the next 45...
Massive Fire at Pennsylvania Aerospace Plant Prompts Evacuations
Feb 20 2025 // Schools were closed and residents were ordered to shelter-in-place Tuesday after a large fire broke out at an aerospace manufacturer’s facility in a town north of Philadelphia, officials said. The fire broke out at...
Pennsylvania Says It Blocked $180 Million in Auto, Home, Other P/C Insurance Hikes
Jan 31 2025 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) reported that in 2024 it refused to approve $180.3 million in annual property/casualty (P/C) insurance premium increases in the state through its rate review processes. The PID...
Crews Continue Efforts to Stabilize Pennsylvania Sinkhole Area
Jan 14 2025 // A sinkhole where a Pennsylvania woman fell to her death last month is now being filled with hundreds of cubic yards of grout in a bid to stabilize the site. The work in the village of Marguerite, about 40 miles (64...
People Moves: Pennsylvania Lumbermens Names Firko Operating Officer, Promotes 6
Jan 9 2025 // Steve Firko Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM), headquartered in Philadelphia, named Steve Firko as executive vice president and chief operating officer overseeing all front-line customer-focused...
Union Bay Acquires Pennsylvania’s Loyalhanna Insurance Group
Dec 30 2024 // Loyalhanna Insurance Group of Latrobe, Pennsylvania has been acquired by Union Bay Acquisition LLC, an aggregator of insurance agencies based in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Terms were not disclosed. This acquisition is Union...
Third Circuit Finds Pennsylvania’s JUA — and Its Surplus— Are Public, Not Private
Dec 19 2024 // Pennsylvania’s facility that insures high risk medical professionals is a public agency, not a private entity, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled. The ruling by a three-judge panel opens the door for...
Schrager Hampson Aviation Expands With Acquisition of Pennsylvania’s Bilella Agency
Dec 18 2024 // Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance Agency LLC, a division of Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance Group, has announced the acquisition of Charles W. Bilella Agency Ltd, its sixth aviation insurance acquisition. The Charles...
Parts of New York, Pennsylvania Buried by Up to 4 Feet of ‘Lake-Effect’ Snow
Dec 2 2024 // The governors of New York and Pennsylvania have declared disaster emergencies in areas hit with as much as three and four feet of “lake-effect” snow from a fierce winter storm. New York Governor Hochul declared...
Two Hospitalized After Small Plane Hits Another at Pennsylvania Airport
Nov 21 2024 // Two people were taken to hospitals after a small plane struck an unoccupied plane at an eastern Pennsylvania airport, authorities said. Police in Bucks County’s Buckingham Township said first responders were sent to...
Pennsylvania Home Health Care Agency to Pay $810K in Back Wages, Damages
Nov 8 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring a Wyncote, Pennsylvania, home health care agency and its owner, Dominique Conner, to pay 196 direct care employees a total of $810,320 in back wages...
