Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania County Suing Oil Industry Over Climate Change
Apr 2 2024 // A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in...
Business Moves
Apr 1 2024 // National Novatae Risk Group, Bretton Woods International Dallas-based Novatae Risk Group is acquiring the Lloyd’s broker Bretton Woods International (BWI) of London. The transaction is subject to applicable...
Automated Braking Would Not Have Prevented Pennsylvania Train Crash
Mar 28 2024 // The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the circumstances the National...
Lawmakers Want Investigations Into Deaths of Older Adults in Abuse or Neglect Cases
Mar 28 2024 // Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania are pushing Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration to do more to investigate the deaths of older adults who are the subject of an abuse or neglect complaint after Pennsylvania...
Investigation Underway Into Cause of Pennsylvania House Fire That Killed Five
Mar 25 2024 // Investigators were searching Thursday for the cause of a fire that tore through a house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, killing a man and four children and spreading to another house before the flames were...
Supreme Court Opinion on Maritime Law Solidifies Insurer’s Choice-of-Law Clause
Mar 18 2024 // A dispute between an insurer and a yacht owner that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court resulted in a decision — the first of its kind on marine insurance in about 70 years — to clarify federal maritime...
Cleanup and Track Repair Underway After Train Collision and Derailment in Pennsylvania
Mar 6 2024 // Norfolk Southern crews and contractors are working on cleanup and track repair after a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend involving three trains that left some railroad cars scattered along a...
Three Trains in Collision and Derailment in Pennsylvania; No Injuries Reported
Mar 4 2024 // Authorities say three trains were involved in a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday morning that caused no reported injuries or evacuations but left some railroad cars scattered along a riverbank...
People & Places
Mar 4 2024 // National Xceedance, headquartered in Boston, appointed Peter Flynn as senior vice president, personal lines, Americas. Flynn brings 25 years of insurance experience, having spent the first 15 years of his career various...
Supreme Court Opinion on Maritime Law Solidifies Insurer’s Choice-of-Law Clause
Mar 1 2024 // A dispute between an insurer and a yacht owner went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with a decision recently—the first of its kind on marine insurance in about 70 years—to clarify federal maritime law and state...
Woman Gets 5-10 Years for Workers’ Comp Scam of Family Dollar, Restaurant
Mar 1 2024 // A Delaware woman will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison for a workers’ compensation scam that spanned 2.5 years, two states, and cost a Pennsylvania employer more than $170,000, according to Pennsylvania Attorney...
Pennsylvania’s State Courts Restore Website Services Disrupted by Cyber Attack
Feb 16 2024 // The Pennsylvania state court system has restored all of its digital platforms that were disrupted by a February 4 cyber attack. In an update, Chief Justice Debra Todd reported that the system’s news, statistics,...
Pennsylvania Courts’ Cyber Battle With an ‘Unknown Opponent’ Enters Third Day
Feb 7 2024 // Pennsylvania’s court system is in a “virtual battle with an unknown opponent” that attacked and shut down key portions of the courts’ online services last Sunday and then again on Tuesday after they...
Pennsylvania State Courts Dealing With Cyberattack
Feb 6 2024 // Pennsylvania’s court system was hit with a cyberattack on Sunday that shut down access to key online services including those used to file documents with appellate courts and guardianship reports, as well as to view...
Pennsylvania’s 7.8% Workers’ Compensation Cut Takes Effect in April
Feb 5 2024 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation rates will be going down for employers beginning April 1. Insurance Commissioner Mike Humphreys on January 23 approved an overall decrease in loss costs of -7.88%, more than...
Business Moves
Feb 5 2024 // East Arthur J. Gallagher, Hughes Insurance Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired the Queensbury, New York-based independent insurance agency, Hughes Insurance Agency Inc. From its headquarters in Queensbury and an office...
2 Pennsylvania Homeowners Urged to Evacuate Due to Landslide
Feb 2 2024 // Authorities have urged two western Pennsylvania homeowners to evacuate their residences due to a nearby landslide. The slide in the Sonoma Ridge development in Allegheny County’s Moon Township closed part of a road...
Pennsylvania High Court Backs ‘Regular Use’ Exclusion for Underinsured Motorist Cover
Feb 2 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a “regular use” exclusion in an auto insurance policy that prohibits underinsured motorist coverage for injuries involving a non-owned vehicle that an insured used...
Pennsylvania Counties Still Restoring Systems After Cyber Incidents
Feb 1 2024 // Two Pennsylvania county governments — Bucks and Washington— reported some progress this week restoring computer systems and overcoming the effects of cyber incidents. But both still have work to do to return to...
Pennsylvania Counties Dealing With Cyber Incidents
Jan 26 2024 // Pennsylvania’s Bucks County reported that it is continuing to investigate a cybersecurity incident that caused an extended outage of the Emergency Communications’ Department’s computer-aided dispatch...
