Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania Insurance Department to Liquidate First Sealord Surety
Feb 13 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department Commissioner Michael Consedine announced last week that the Commonwealth Court has approved the department’s petition to liquidate First Sealord Surety Insurance. First Sealord,...
Pennsylvania Woman Gets Probation for Fake Cancer Claims
Feb 9 2012 // A Pennsylvania woman who submitted nearly $100,000 worth of fake cancer treatment insurance claims for herself and her husband must repay the money while she serves nearly nine years on probation. The Observer-Reporter of...
Penn. Regulators Approve 5.7% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Costs
Feb 3 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved a 5.7 percent decrease in overall workers’ compensation costs that will result in $160 million in savings for Pennsylvania employers. Regulators said employers can...
Penn. Regulators Recovered $3.2M in Restitution for Consumers in 2011
Feb 1 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department said its office of market regulation completed 334 enforcement actions and market conduct examinations in 2011. In all, the department issued 141 orders and adjudications, collected...
Nationwide Calls Harleysville Deal ‘Fair and Compelling’
Jan 25 2012 // Nationwide is brushing off Liberty Mutual’s allegation that Nationwide’s pending acquisition of Harleysville Mutual would unfairly benefit subsidiary Harleysville Group’s stock shareholders at the expense...
Pennsylvania Whistleblower Claims Hospital Medicare Fraud
Jan 24 2012 // A former northwestern Pennsylvania cardiologist says in a lawsuit a hospital improperly paid doctors who performed unnecessary procedures on patients, including two who died. The suit filed this month by Dr. Tullio...
Report: Liberty Mutual Failed in Bid to Buy Harleysville
Jan 23 2012 // It turns out there was another player in last year’s merger deal between Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. According to a news report, Liberty Mutual also made an offer last...
Key Risk Expands to Pennsylvania, Opens Harrisburg Office
Jan 19 2012 // Key Risk, a workers’ comp insurer and a member company of W. R. Berkley Corp., said it is expanding operations to Pennsylvania and is opening a new office in Harrisburg. Key Risk focuses solely on providing...
Swett & Crawford Appoints Transportation Underwriter in Pennsylvania
Jan 18 2012 // Wholesale intermediary Swett & Crawford appointed David Pohle as Media, Penn.-based transportation underwriter for its transportation practice group. David Pohle Pohle joins Swett & Crawford after eight years at...
Company Cautions Against Linking Well, Ohio Quakes
Jan 13 2012 // Boos, applause and the occasional outburst marked a gathering of about 500 Ohio residents seeking explanations for a series of earthquakes that has hit their area since deep injection drilling came to town. At a news...
Report: Liberty Mutual Failed in Bid to Buy Harleysville
Jan 6 2012 // It turns out there was another player in last year’s merger deal between Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. According to a news report, Liberty Mutual also made an offer last...
Penn. Senator Asks Flood Insurers to Quickly Process Remaining Claims
Dec 29 2011 // U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) is asking flood insurance companies to quickly process remaining claims from Irene and Lee. He says some 25 percent of the claims in Pennsylvania are still not...
Pennsylvania’s Rhyming Justice Pens Insurance Fraud Opinion
Dec 27 2011 // This judge’s rulings, for better or worse, are poetic justice because they’re in verse. A state Supreme Court justice known for opinions written in rhyme has done it again, producing six pages of verse last...
Insurer for Sandusky Charity in Pennsylvania Argues Over Payouts
Dec 27 2011 // An insurance company for a charity founded by Jerry Sandusky argued in a federal complaint last Friday that it should not have to pay legal expenses or claims for the former Penn State assistant football coach now accused...
Pennsylvania Gets $420M in Disaster Aid, NFIP Settled $196M in Claims
Dec 21 2011 // The federal government has approved $420 million in disaster aid for Pennsylvanians hit by the one-two punch of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Updated figures from federal and state emergency management officials...
Pennsylvanians Face Sinkhole Threat, But Many Lack Insurance Coverage
Dec 19 2011 // A U.S. senator is enlisting the help of Pennsylvania insurance commissioner to help protect the Keystone State’s homeowners from sinkhole damages. In a letter to Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine,...
Pennsylvania Receives $349 Million in Disaster Aid So Far
Dec 5 2011 // Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency say nearly $349 million in disaster aid has been approved so far for Pennsylvania residents affected by two recent storms. According to updated figures released by...
Whistleblower Laws, Lucrative for Some States, Stall in Others
Nov 28 2011 // For many states, a law intended to root out corruption also has been good for the bottom line. Over the last decade, more than 20 states have passed a version of the federal anti-corruption law known as the False Claims...
25 Sickened by Carbon Monoxide at Pennsylvania Tractor Pull Event
Nov 22 2011 // Fire officials had to close down a tractor pull event at the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex after carbon monoxide sickened more than two dozen people. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reports the Mid-Atlantic Antique Tractor...
Pennsylvania, Delaware Agent Groups Part Ways With PIA National
Nov 21 2011 // Two independent agent associations in the northeast said in November they will discontinue their affiliations with the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA). The Insurance Agents & Brokers of...
