Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Chubb’s Oldest Active Subsidiary Receives Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Apr 28 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...
Motorists Mutual, BrickStreet Mutual Finalize Joint Venture
Apr 24 2017 // Ohio-based property/casualty insurer Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. and West Virginia-based workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. Inc., have been granted regulatory approvals to affiliate...
Pennsylvania Says It Busted Up Fraudulent License Plate Ring
Apr 21 2017 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general’s office on Wednesday charged a dozen people as part of an organized crime ring that it said had made millions of dollars renting out fraudulently obtained license plates,...
Pioneer Expands Miscellaneous E&O Division with 2 Pennsylvania Appointments
Apr 20 2017 // Pioneer Underwriters (Pioneer) has appointed Milan Devetak as senior underwriter and Andrew Nowlan as underwriter in the Miscellaneous E&O, Technology & Cyber division of its U.S. underwriting platform, Pioneer...
Reports Describe How Pennsylvania Firefighter Died, Oxygen Hose Burned
Apr 19 2017 // Investigators say a Philadelphia, Penn., firefighter died because a hose supplying her with oxygen had burned through and they found problems with how her colleagues responded to her seven emergency distress signals. The...
Insurance Waivers in Pennsylvania and Other States Sometimes Missed Violations
Apr 18 2017 // Waivers granted in Pennsylvania and many other states to allow convicted felons to become insurance agents have sometimes missed ongoing violations, a newspaper reported. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that since 2004...
Pennsylvania’s Keystone Insurers Hires Craig from The Beacon Group
Apr 12 2017 // Keystone Insurers Group, a Northumberland, Penn.-headquartered property and casualty insurance partnership, has named Charles A. “Tripp” Craig III director of business development. Craig has 30 years of...
Pennsylvania’s V3 Insurance Partners Hires 2, Promotes 1
Apr 7 2017 // V3 Insurance Partners LLC (V3), a Newtown, Penn.-based specialty program administrator offering insurance programs targeted at middle market companies, has added two senior executives to its professional lines practice –...
Pennsylvania’s Venture Programs Hires Wright and Starr
Apr 6 2017 // Venture Programs, a West Chester, Penn.-based national insurance program administrator, has added Janet Wright as a risk manager and Jeanne Starr as a SUITELIFE regional underwriter. In this new role, Wright will be...
Pennsylvania’s Penn Community Insurance Hires Frentzen and Roberts
Apr 5 2017 // Penn Community Insurance, a Perkasie, Penn.-based wholly owned subsidiary of Penn Community Bank, has hired Peter Frentzen and Robert J. Roberts. Frentzen and Roberts bring additional skills and capabilities to Penn...
Maximum Acquires Starpoint General Agency in Pennsylvania
Apr 5 2017 // Maximum, an independent, Chicago, Ill.-based excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has acquired Philadelphia, Penn.-based transportation specialist Starpoint General Agency. Kevin Long, who manages the Philadelphia office,...
Pennsylvania Businesses to See Workers’ Comp Insurance Rate Cut
Apr 3 2017 // Pennsylvania businesses will see another cut in workers’ compensation insurance rates while maintaining benefit levels for injured workers, Wolf Administration cabinet secretaries for the Pennsylvania Insurance...
Pennsylvania Construction Worker Crushed by Safe Deposit Box
Mar 29 2017 // Authorities in suburban Philadelphia, Penn., say a construction worker was crushed to death by a safety deposit box. Cheltenham Township police say the incident happened at an old Wells Fargo in the Cheltenham Mall around...
Vandals Contaminated Pennsylvania Mobile Home Park’s Water System
Mar 21 2017 // Authorities say vandals contaminated the private water system of a mobile home park in western Pennsylvania, leaving about 50 homes without water service. State police in Westmoreland County say someone entered the...
Cashier Admits Stealing $13M at Pennsylvania Monuments Firm
Mar 20 2017 // The former cashier at a Pennsylvania monuments and engraving firm has acknowledged stealing nearly $13 million over 16 years and is hoping a judge will approve a seven-and-a-half-year federal prison sentence for her...
Pennsylvania Court Approves Liquidation of Two Insurance Companies
Mar 20 2017 // The Commonwealth Court in Pennsylvania has approved petitions to liquidate Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company and American Network Insurance Company, with policyholder claims set to be paid through the state...
Plunging Temperatures in Northeast Lead to Icy Conditions Following Storm
Mar 16 2017 // Concerns about falling temperatures and icy conditions on roads and sidewalks across the Northeast followed a late-season storm that plastered the region with sleet and snow. Tuesday’s powerful nor’easter...
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Offers Advice for Winter Storm Damage
Mar 16 2017 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is offering tips to consumers whose home or automobile may have sustained damage from this week’s winter storm, according to a press release issued by the...
Pennsylvania-Headquartered Cohen & Grigsby Hires Anderson as a Director
Mar 16 2017 // Cohen & Grigsby P.C., a law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Penn., has hired Roberta D. Anderson as a director. Anderson’s practice is concentrated on insurance recovery and emerging cybersecurity and data...
Fire Marshal Says Pennsylvania Lumber Mill Suffered at Least $7M in Damage
Mar 15 2017 // A fire at a hardwoods lumber mill in north-central Pennsylvania has caused $7 million to $10 million in damage. That’s the assessment of the state police fire marshal investigating early Saturday’s fire at...
