Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Cybersecurity Agency Warns Water Utilities About Hackers After Pennsylvania Attack
Dec 1 2023 // Hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities, potentially threatening water supplies, the top U.S. cyberdefense agency said after a Pennsylvania water authority was...
Declarations
Nov 20 2023 // Ransomware Payments “As long as there is money flowing to ransomware criminals, this is a problem that will continue to grow.” — Anne Neuberger, U.S. deputy national security adviser for cyber and...
In Pennsylvania, Workers’ Compensation Now Pays for CBD Oil Treatment
Nov 17 2023 // Eight months after it ruled that medical marijuana is covered under workers’ compensation, a Pennsylvania appeals court has concluded that an injured worker’s cost of CBD oil is also reimbursable. A...
Are Expensive Judicial Races the New Normal in Pennsylvania After High Court Campaign?
Nov 15 2023 // The race for an open seat on Pennsylvania`s highest court initially resembled the sleepy contests that had played out for decades: low turnout, little media coverage and just enough spending to afford some biographical TV...
Democrats Preserve Majority With Win in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Race
Nov 9 2023 // Democrat Dan McCaffery won an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court in Tuesday’s general election, preserving a strong Democratic majority on a panel that has produced several critical election-related...
Frederick Mutual Exiting Personal Lines; Signs Renewal Deal With Farmers of Salem
Nov 8 2023 // Frederick Mutual, which is exiting the personal lines market and focusing strictly on commercial lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, has reached a renewal rights agreement with another insurer for the bulk of...
Lawmakers Advance Bill to Increase Transparency of Pennsylvania’s Universities
Nov 3 2023 // An effort supporters say will boost transparency in several leading Pennsylvania universities passed the House of Representatives on Monday, while the universities’ annual state subsidies remain snarled in the...
Spending Passes $17 Million in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Race
Nov 2 2023 // Millions more dollars are flowing into Pennsylvania`s race for an open state Supreme Court seat, as labor unions, trial lawyers and billionaires are spending heavily in the campaign to influence a court that has been...
Pennsylvania Restaurant to Pay $269K for Illegal Pay Practices, Child Labor Violations
Oct 25 2023 // A Collegeville, Pennsylvania restaurant and its owners must pay $268,660 in back wages, liquidated damages and punitive damages to satisfy a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation...
Rutter’s Stores Pays $1 Million for Payment Card Data Breach
Oct 16 2023 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced a settlement with York-based convenience store chain, Rutter’s, regarding cybersecurity attacks that exposed information from more than a million customer...
OSHA Fines Pennsylvania Candy Factory for Not Evacuating Before Fatal Explosion
Oct 10 2023 // A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people. R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed...
Pennsylvania Borough Settles Lawsuits Over Shooting at High School for $11M
Oct 3 2023 // An $11 million settlement has been reached in federal lawsuits over police gunfire outside a high school football game near Philadelphia in 2021 that killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded others, an attorney for the girl`s...
Employer Hosting Golf Outing Not Liable for Drunk Driver, Pennsylvania High Court Says
Oct 2 2023 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to extend the state’s liquor liability law to social hosts. The high court cited a half-century of precedent in upholding lower courts in a case where an employer hosting a...
Information Security Issue Stalls Federal Probe of Fatal Pennsylvania Candy Factory Blast
Sep 29 2023 // After months of discussion, federal safety officials and the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (PUC) remain at odds over release of documents that the National Transportation Safety Board says it needs for a...
Pennsylvania’s McConkey Insurance Acquires Gallen Agency of Berks County
Sep 5 2023 // McConkey Insurance & Benefits, a locally owned independent insurance agency based in York, Pennsylvania, announced its recent acquisition of Gallen Insurance Agency, located in Berks County. According to Michael...
Employee Impersonators Scam $2M from Pennsylvania Banks’ Customers, Officials Say
Aug 28 2023 // A theft ring stole nearly $2 million from bank customers in central Pennsylvania in an elaborate scheme in which the scammers, posing as bank employees, tricked people into giving up their account information, the attorney...
Pennsylvania Court Says State Police Must Show How They Monitor Social Media
Aug 25 2023 // Pennsylvania`s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state police can`t hide from the public its policy on how it monitors social media. Advocates for civil liberties cheered the decision. The law enforcement agency had...
Employer Hosting Golf Outing Not Liable for Drunk Driver, Pennsylvania High Court Says
Aug 24 2023 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to extend the state’s liquor liability law to social hosts. The high court cited a half-century of precedent in upholding lower courts in a case where an employer hosting a...
Cause Still Unknown in Pennsylvania House Explosion That Killed 6
Aug 23 2023 // Three houses at the center of a recent explosion near Pittsburgh that killed six people will need to be torn down and 10 others are not currently inhabitable, county officials said over the weekend. The Aug. 12 blast in...
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