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Pennsylvania’s Penn Community Bank Hires Three
Jun 28 2017 // Penn Community Bank, a Bucks County, Penn.-based independent, mutual financial organization, has hired three professionals to its administrative, lending, and insurance teams. Peter R. Palumbo joins Penn Community Bank as...
Pennsylvania Introduces Legislation to Limit Surprise Balance Bills
Jun 22 2017 // Pennsylvania House Health and Insurance Committee Chairs Matt Baker and Tina Pickett have introduced legislation to protect health care consumers from surprise balance bills in a move Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner...
Governor Wolf Calls for Pennsylvania to Keep Fighting Fatal Overdoses
Jun 19 2017 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) statistics on fatal overdoses that showed an incerease in Pennsylvania again last year are a call for the state and federal government...
Penn. Insurance Commissioner to be Nominated for New Health, Human Services Agency
Jun 19 2017 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has announced his intention to nominate current Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller to serve as the inaugural secretary of the prospective unified Department of Health and Human...
Pennsylvania’s Venture Programs Promotes Mulhern
Jun 14 2017 // Venture Programs, a West Chester, Penn.-based insurance program administrator, has promoted Robert Mulhern to executive vice president of sales for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. In this new role, Mulhern is...
Pennsylvania’s Element Risk Management Acquires Rhodes Insurance Agency
Jun 2 2017 // West Chester, Penn.-based Element Risk Management has finalized the acquisition of Rhodes Insurance Agency Inc., also located in West Chester. The acquisition is expected to strengthen Element Risk’s footprint in...
Pennsylvania Insurance Chief Would Lead New Health, Human Services Agency
May 31 2017 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said last week that he would nominate his insurance commissioner, Teresa Miller, to lead a new agency he is proposing to oversee the public health and social and human services programs...
USI Acquires Employee Benefits Business from Pennsylvania’s The Hartman Group
May 30 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Hartman Employee Benefits Inc. (Hartman Employee Benefits) from The Hartman Group. Hartman Employee Benefits and its employees will remain at the current Williamsport and State...
Pennsylvania’s Lacher & Associates Acquires Brunner Insurance
May 23 2017 // Lacher & Associates of Souderton, Penn., has acquired Brunner Insurance of Richlandtown, Penn. Founded by Gus Brunner in 1960, Brunner Insurance specializes in providing for the insurance needs of families and...
Pennsylvania’s IA&B Announces New CEO Following Russell’s Retirement
May 22 2017 // Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B), a Mechanicsburg, Penn.-based professional trade association, will have a new president and CEO at the helm beginning in January 2018. Deputy CEO and Counsel Jason Ernest will take...
Bus Carrying 26 Pennsylvania Students on Field Trip to D.C. Overturns on I-95
May 17 2017 // A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were...
Amtrak Engineer Won’t be Charged in Deadly Pennsylvania Crash
May 15 2017 // The speeding Amtrak engineer involved in a derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200 others in Philadelphia won’t face criminal charges, the city district attorney’s office said. Prosecutors...
Business Moves
May 15 2017 // Validus, Crop Insurance Agency Validus Holdings Ltd. has completed its acquisition of Crop Risk Services business (CRS), a primary crop insurance managing general agent, from Archer Daniels Midland Co. In the deal that was...
Chubb’s Oldest Active Subsidiary Receives Pennsylvania Historical Marker
May 15 2017 // Chubb, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), has dedicated a Pennsylvania historical marker to the Insurance Company of North America (INA), Chubb’s oldest subsidiary...
Alera Group Acquires Pennsylvania’s Striewig Bonding Agency
May 9 2017 // Alera Group, based in Deerfield, Ill, has acquired Striewig Bonding Agency Inc. of Wormleysburg, Penn., effective May 1, 2017. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Since 1952, Striewig Bonding Agency has managed...
Regulators Link Hoverboard to Deadly Pennsylvania Fire
May 5 2017 // Federal safety regulators believe a hoverboard is to blame for a fire that killed two girls in Pennsylvania. The girls, ages 10 and 3, were killed March 10 in Harrisburg. They are believed to be the first in the U.S. to...
One Floodgate Fails to Automatically Stop Traffic During Pennsylvania Storm
May 4 2017 // Pittsburgh, Penn., public safety officials are trying to determine why a rain-activated gate failed to automatically stop traffic from entering a low-lying roadway during a storm Monday afternoon. Instead, a police patrol...
Pennsylvania’s Insurance Services United Purchases Lewis Casualty
May 3 2017 // Insurance Services United (ISU), a full-service insurance agency in York, Penn., has purchased Lewis Casualty, an insurance services company based in Quarryville, Penn. The purchase of Lewis Casualty is the second recent...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Becomes Partner in PA Forward Initiative
May 2 2017 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller recently joined with leaders of the Pennsylvania Library Association and the York County Library System to announce a partnership to provide consumer information on...
Pennsylvania Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty in $8.2M Promissory Note Scam
May 1 2017 // An insurance agent pleaded guilty Thursday in a promissory note scam that bilked nearly 80 clients out of $8.2 million. John Hogan, 77, of Swissvale, Penn., entered his pleas to five counts of mail fraud in the scheme run...
