Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Jewelry Expert Testifies in Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud-Fires Case
Apr 1 2015 // A local GOP fundraiser in Pennsylvania charged in a $20 million insurance scheme after three mansion fires in five years cursed and discussed the Mafia while meeting with a jewelry appraiser about her claims, the appraiser...
Pennsylvania Program Focuses on Firefighters’ Health
Apr 1 2015 // The heart-attack death of a Somerset, Pennsylvania, volunteer firefighter in February served as a grim reminder of the hidden hazards of an already dangerous job. Forty-eight-year-old Edward Roddy collapsed while fighting...
Pennsylvania Workers’ Comp Rate to Decline for 4th Year
Mar 28 2015 // The cost of workers’ compensation insurance is declining for the fourth consecutive year in Pennsylvania. The state departments of Insurance and Labor & Industry said on Friday, March 27, that overall rates will...
N.J. Senate OKs Electronic Proof of Insurance, Reverse Rate Evasion Bills
Mar 19 2015 // New Jersey’s state Senate on March 16 passed a bill (A-3905) that would allow motorists to display proof of auto insurance in either physical or electronic format. The bill was previously approved by the state...
AmTrust to Acquire ARI Mutual Insurance in Pennsylvania
Mar 18 2015 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement, pending regulatory and policyholder approval, to acquire ARI Mutual Insurance Company in Newtown, Pennsylvania, following the...
Progressive is Rolling Out TNC Coverage in Pennsylvania
Mar 11 2015 // Slowly but surely, more of the major U.S. auto insurers are rolling out custom products designed to cover the unique risks presented by the emerging market of transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft. Latest to...
CBIZ Acquires Model Consulting in Pennsylvania
Mar 4 2015 // CBIZ Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio, announced that it has acquired Model Consulting Inc. in Trevose, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1990, Model Consulting provides employee benefit...
Glatfelter Promotes Williams to VFIS Senior VP in Pennsylvania
Feb 23 2015 // Edmund Williams Glatfelter Insurance Group in York, Pennsylvania, has promoted Edmund Williams from vice president and program manager to senior vice president and program manager for VFIS, a Glatfelter division that...
Low Minimum Limits Unfairly Shift Financial Responsibility
Feb 23 2015 // For years, we’ve listened to those who beat the drum to maintain minimum liability insurance limits that have been in place for decades. They frame their viewpoint as pro-consumer, and on its surface, their message...
Business Moves
Feb 23 2015 // Majesco, Agile Insurance technology firm Majesco has completed the acquisition of the insurance business of Agile Technologies, a technology consulting firm with revenues of more than $9 million. Terms of the deal were not...
Lyft Joins Uber in Getting Final OK for Pennsylvania Service
Feb 13 2015 // Pennsylvania’s regulators say they’re satisfied with the plan by the ridesharing service Lyft to comply with conditions for a two-year license for experimental service to operate everywhere in the state except...
Pennsylvania College Loses Obamacare Contraceptive Challenge
Feb 12 2015 // The Obama administration won a reversal of a court ruling that would have shielded a Christian college in Pennsylvania from a provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring religious nonprofits to indirectly facilitate...
Cal U. of Pennsylvania Teaches Tricky Science of Predicting Snow
Feb 10 2015 // Predicting winter weather is a slippery slope. People depend on weather forecasters to tell them when to stock up on milk and bread, but if a predicted blizzard doesn’t materialize, a flurry of complaints surface on...
Brown & Brown Acquires Liberty Insurance Brokers in Philadelphia
Feb 9 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown of Pennsylvania LP has acquired certain assets of Liberty Insurance Brokers Inc. and its related affiliate companies in Philadelphia. Terms of the...
Penn. Defense Attorney Fights $1M Fine Over Banned Testimony
Feb 4 2015 // A single word of testimony at a medical-malpractice trial has cost a Pennsylvania lawyer a nearly $1 million fine she says threatens her home, her family and her small law firm. Insurance defense attorney Nancy Raynor says...
IA&B Adds to Sales Center Staff in Pennsylvania
Jan 27 2015 // Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B), a tri-state trade organization based in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, hired John Angstadt as business development specialist and Cheryl Shiffer as professional lines account...
Glatfelter Insurance Group Announces 2 Promotions in Pennsylvania
Jan 22 2015 // Glatfelter Insurance Group (GIG) in York, Pennsylvania, promoted John Solari to president of Glatfelter Underwriting Services and chief underwriting officer for Glatfelter Programs, and Jim Partridge to president of...
Penn. Insurance Dept.: 2014 Was a Banner Year for Consumer Protection
Jan 21 2015 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department said 2014 was a banner year for consumer protection. The department said its Office of Market Regulation concluded 2014 by collecting more than $4 million in penalties and fines and...
Northwest Savings Bank Acquires B.J. Petruso Agency in Penn.
Jan 13 2015 // Northwest Savings Bank in Warren, Pennsylvania, announced the acquisition of B.J. Petruso Agency, a property/casualty and life insurance agency located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not...
Pennsylvania Store Manager Robbed at Gunpoint Wins Workers’ Comp
Jan 8 2015 // Is being robbed at gunpoint in a Pennsylvania state liquor store an “abnormal working condition” or not? Since 2008, Gregory Kochanowicz has claimed it is, and now that the Commonwealth Court agrees, he’s...
