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Pennsylvania’s Eichelberger Brings Business Skills to Legislature
Sep 23 2013 // Pennsylvania State Sen. John H. Eichelberger Jr. (R – Blair) is an insurance professional who has achieved success in two highly competitive worlds: insurance agency business and legislative politics. Eichelberger...
Local Firms in Pennsylvania Take ‘Wait and See’ Approach to Health Care Law
Sep 21 2013 // The mandate that large employers provide health care coverage to their employees has been put off until 2015, but some businesses have already started changing health care benefits. Still, many local employers in Bucks...
Veterans’ Medical Malpractice Costs Rising As More Soldiers Seek Care
Sep 13 2013 // Christopher Ellison went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007. What should have been a routine dentist visit left him permanently incapacitated. The $17.5 million Ellison and...
Insurance Pros in Politics: Insurance Veterans Elect to Also Work in State Legislatures
Sep 10 2013 // Running a successful insurance agency business is tough enough by itself but some insurance pros are taking it one step further. They manage to juggle multiple careers in insurance and politics. Pennsylvania State Sen....
WCRI Study of Penn., Md. Finds Vicodin Much Costlier When Dispensed by Doctors
Sep 9 2013 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) says the average price paid for physician-dispensed Vicodin — a commonly dispensed narcotic pain medication in Pennsylvania and Maryland — was...
9/11 Responders Far From NYC Seek Compensation
Sep 9 2013 // They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and...
Premium Increases Under Obamacare Not as High as Expected: Study
Sep 9 2013 // The federal Affordable Care Act will not lead to widespread premium increases in the individual health insurance market. That’s according to a new analysis of 10 states and the United States overall by RAND Corp.,...
Kaufman Financial Group Acquires ISI Insurance Services in Pennsylvania
Aug 13 2013 // The H.W. Kaufman Financial Group announced the acquisition of ISI Insurance Services, a Uniontown, Penn.-based provider of premium audits, loss control and inspection services. ISI will join the team at US-Reports, a...
Pennsylvania Court Sides With Hospitals, Doctors on Malpractice Fund
Aug 13 2013 // A state court overruled Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator in a decision made public Monday, siding with hospital officials and doctors who said a supplemental medical malpractice insurance fund is keeping too...
Integro Appoints Senior VP in Pennsylvania Office
Aug 6 2013 // New York-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro recently hired Neal Wallace as property/casualty senior vice president. Reporting to the Boston office, Wallace joins the Integro Healthcare Practice and...
Fracking Tied to Drinking Water Damage by EPA Regional Official
Jul 31 2013 // Gas drilling caused “significant damage” to drinking-water aquifers in a Pennsylvania town at the center of a fight over the safety of hydraulic fracturing, according to a report prepared by a federal...
Ex-Penn State Officials Hearing Revives Sandusky Abuse Case
Jul 29 2013 // Ex-Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier and two other former officials will be in a court hearing today on whether they must stand trial for hiding information tied to the Jerry Sandusky sexual-abuse...
NCAA Asks Judge to Toss Paterno Suit Over Sandusky Fine
Jul 24 2013 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Joe Paterno’s family challenging penalties levied against Pennsylvania State University and its football program over the Jerry...
IA&B Survey: Agencies Report Slight Decrease in Commercial Carrier Satisfaction
Jul 23 2013 // Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B) — a partnership of three agents’ associations serving Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware — said its latest survey shows its members’ overall satisfaction...
Pennsylvania Agency Hart, McConahy & Martz Joins Keystone Insurers Group
Jul 22 2013 // Keystone Insurers Group has added Erie, Penn.-based agency Hart, McConahy & Martz as a new franchise partner. Established in 1872, Hart, McConahy & Martz is Erie’s oldest insurance agency. Over the years,...
USI Insurance Services Acquires Cohen-Seltzer Agency in Pennsylvania
Jul 17 2013 // USI Insurance Services said it completed its acquisition of Cohen-Seltzer Inc., in Fort Washington, Penn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. A third generation family-owned insurance agency formed in 1926,...
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual, Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Announce Affiliation
Jul 11 2013 // Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company and Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company announced on Wednesday that they have executed agreements to affiliate their respective companies. Once in effect, the...
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hold Hearing on Fatal Building Collapse
Jul 11 2013 // Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering stricter regulations on demolition projects in the wake of a building collapse in downtown Philadelphia last month that killed six people. The House Labor & Industry and the...
Pennsylvania Law Banning Gay Marriage Faces Court Challenge
Jul 10 2013 // The American Civil Liberties Union said it filed the first known legal challenge Tuesday seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that doesn’t...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Gets Dedicated Funding Structure
Jul 9 2013 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced this week that it now has access to a dedicated funding source, thanks to Gov. Tom Corbett’s recently signed 2013-14 budget and newly enacted legislation, Act 46. This...
