Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Penn. Reminds Drivers: Insurers Can’t Add Surcharge for Deer-Related Crash
Oct 20 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is reminding drivers that their insurance company cannot add a surcharge to their auto premium for a crash involving a deer. The commissioner also urged drivers to be alert...
Ensuring Fair Treatment for Pennsylvania Consumers
Oct 19 2015 // That consumers get a fair deal when buying insurance is crucial for families’ financial well-being and peace of mind, and also why I have recently taken two actions to ensure policyholders are treated fairly. One...
Church Mutual to Acquire Penn. School Boards Association Insurance Holdings
Oct 15 2015 // Church Mutual Insurance Company, a Merrill, Wisconsin-based insurer of religious organizations, announced that it has agreed to acquire the insurance operations of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. Terms of the...
EEOC Sues Penn.’s Open Records Office for Alleged Age Discrimination
Oct 13 2015 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Oct. 7 that it has filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s Office of Public Records for allegedly violating federal law when it refused to hire an...
AssuredPartners Acquires Wilson H. Flock Insurance in Pennsylvania
Oct 12 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that its subsidiary, AssuredPartners of New Jersey, has acquired Wilson H. Flock Insurance Inc., an independent agency based in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not...
Pennsylvania Holds Hearing on Issue of Surprise Medical Bills
Oct 5 2015 // Advocates for consumers, insurers, hospitals and doctors clashed on Oct. 1 at a Pennsylvania hearing on surprise bills for expensive out-of-network health care services sent to patients who thought their treatments were...
Pennsylvania Reminds Health Insurers to Keep Provider Directories Up to Date
Sep 24 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is reminding health insurers that they must keep their provider directories up to date and that consumers should not pay higher out-of-network costs if they use a health...
Engle-Hambright & Davies Announces 2 Appointments in Pennsylvania
Sep 22 2015 // Engle-Hambright & Davies Inc. (EHD), an independent insurance agency based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, hired Matthew Swanick as Construction and Surety Practice group leader in the Commercial Department. Prior to...
Pennsylvania to Hold Hearing on Health Insurer Balance Billing
Sep 21 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department will hold a public hearing in October on the issue of “balance billing” of health insurance...
IA&B in Pennsylvania Announces Officers for 2015-16 Administrative Year
Sep 18 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for the Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations. The following directors have...
Pennsylvania Commissioner Issues Consumer Alert on ‘Widow’s Penalty’
Sep 18 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller issued a consumer alert announcing that she will not approve auto insurance rate filings that contain the so-called “widow’s penalty,” under which a widow...
Intellectual Property News: KitKat, Williams Sonoma, Whole Foods, Skechers, Segway, GoDaddy, Apple
Sep 18 2015 // This wrap-up of recent intellectual property cases covers chocolate bar shapes, cookware designs, sneaker similarities, Korean TV copyright device, Quizno’s commercials, personal transporter technology, Oscar award...
Odds of Drivers Having Collision with Animal: 1 Out of 169
Sep 14 2015 // The odds drivers will have a claim from hitting a deer, elk or moose is 1 out of 169, the same as in 2014. That likelihood more than doubles during October, November and December, when deer collisions are most prevalent,...
Penn. to Hold Hearing on Balance Billing of Health Insurance Consumers
Sep 10 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that her department will hold a public hearing on the issue of “balance billing” of health insurance consumers. Balance billing occurs when a patient...
District of Columbia, Maine, Pennsylvania Nix Price Optimization
Sep 7 2015 // The District of Columbia, Maine and Pennsylvania have recently joined a growing number of states and jurisdictions that issued directives prohibiting the use of price optimization. In Washington, D.C., the Department of...
Penn. Advises Homeowners to Reduce Property Hazards, Avoid Coverage Loss
Sep 1 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is advising consumers that the Pennsylvania Insurance Department is available to help homeowners adhere to reasonable requests by insurers to make their properties safer...
Pennsylvania Says Insurers Are Prohibited From Using Price Optimization
Aug 24 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller has issued an official notice warning the state’s insurers that they are prohibited from using the price optimization techniques in property/casualty insurance...
Beneficial Insurance Services Acquires Pye Karr Ambler & Co. in Pennsylvania
Aug 13 2015 // Beneficial Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Beneficial Bank in Philadelphia, announced that it has acquired Pye Karr Ambler & Co. Inc. (PKA), an independent insurance agency in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Terms of...
Pennsylvania’s Mill Creek Flood of 1915 Re-Examined
Aug 11 2015 // Erie, Pennsylvania, has had some tragic days, but Aug. 3, 1915, ranks at the top. At 8:45 p.m. that Tuesday, a wall of water tore through the city at 25 mph, lifting houses from their foundations, ripping pavement from...
GEICO Expands Ridesharing Coverage to Pennsylvania
Aug 4 2015 // After launching a new ridesharing product in Georgia, Virginia, Maryland and Texas earlier this year, GEICO is now expanding its ridesharing offering to drivers in Pennsylvania. New and existing drivers that have been...
