Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania MedMal Climate Improving, Governor Says
Oct 12 2010 // A big drop in the size and amount of payouts from Pennsylvania’s Mcare fund show that the state’s medical malpractice climate is improving, Gov. Edward Rendell said. Over the last seven years, Mcare...
Florida Medical Malpractice Insurance Market Found in Good Health
Oct 6 2010 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in Florida earned an average return on surplus of 6.6 percent in 2009, their sixth straight profitable year, although their profits were lower than in 2008. That’s one of the news...
Student Arrested After Fires Again Strike Pennsylvania Dorm
Sep 30 2010 // A student is in custody following a series of fires inside a northeastern Pennsylvania dorm. Nineteen-year-old Ryan Burke was arrested hours after two fires broke out early Tuesday in the dorm on the campus of East...
Pennsylvania Ponders Increased Auto Liability Limits
Sep 20 2010 // A new bill introduced to the Pennsylvania senate would double the minimum liability amounts of auto insurance policies in the state. Current laws set minimum liability limits for bodily injury at $15,000 per person and...
Lawsuit: Gas Drilling Fluid Ruined Pennsylvania Water Wells
Sep 17 2010 // Thirteen families in the heart of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale say their water wells have been contaminated by poisonous fluids blasted deep underground by a drilling company using a technique at the center of a fierce...
Pennsylvania County Reaches $3M Strip-Search Settlement
Sep 16 2010 // Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over strip searches for nonviolent offenders. County solicitor Michael Wojcik tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the county agreed to...
Jury Sets Home Values in Pennsylvania Town Hit by Mine Fire
Sep 14 2010 // A Central Pennsylvania jury has set values for homes in a central Pennsylvania town decimated by a mine fire at values far below those sought by homeowners who are challenging the state’s condemnation of their...
People
Sep 6 2010 // Aon Consulting has named Shelly Blackstone as vice president of business development in its Richmond, Virginia office. In her new role, Blackstone will develop new products and services clients in Central and Southern...
Pennsylvania Ponders Increased Auto Liability Limits
Sep 3 2010 // A new bill introduced to the Pennsylvania senate would double the minimum liability amounts of auto insurance policies in the state. Current laws set minimum liability limits for bodily injury at $15,000 per person, and...
Judge: Pennsylvania School District Must Pay $260K in Spying Case
Sep 1 2010 // A federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family’s lawyer about $260,000. Lower Merion School District was ordered Monday to pay attorney Mark...
IA&B Groups Elects New Officers and Directors
Aug 27 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors. Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in...
Forfeiture Postponed in Ex-Pennsylvania Judge’s Fraud Case
Aug 27 2010 // A federal court forfeiture hearing has been postponed in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud, because the judge’s wife has hired a new attorney to try to prevent their...
Pennsylvania Indicts Agency Execs, Spouses in $7.5M Pyramid Scheme
Aug 25 2010 // Two Pennsylvania insurance agency execs and their spouses have been charged in what prosecutors say is a massive pyramid scheme that swindled local colleges, businesses and other organizations of more than $7.5...
Pennsylvania Jury Awards $6.8M in 2007 DUI Crash
Aug 23 2010 // An eastern Pennsylvania jury has awarded $6.8 million in damages to a woman who was injured in a 2007 drunken driving crash. A Chester County jury found a Coatesville restaurant liable for having continued to serve a man...
Forfeiture Set in Ex-Pennsylvania Judge’s Fraud Case
Aug 19 2010 // A federal judge has set a forfeiture hearing for a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge who is serving a 46-month prison sentence for insurance fraud. Michael Joyce, of Millcreek Township, was convicted of mail fraud...
Pennsylvania Man Arrested for Fabricating $1.4M Insurance Claim
Aug 17 2010 // Pennsylvania authorities have arrested a man who allegedly fabricated a $1.4 million insurance claim for storm damage to eight modular homes he owned in Pottstown. Attorney General Tom Corbett said that Kevin Paul Kollar...
Pennsylvania Commissioner Ario Steps Down
Aug 10 2010 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario has stepped down as the state’s top insurance regulator to take a position with the federal government as director of federal Office of Insurance Exchanges. Robert L....
Pennsylvania Mother Sues over Son’s Fatal Fire at Gas Pump
Aug 5 2010 // A woman sued Toyota Motor Corp., BP America Inc. and others, claiming their actions contributed to a March fire at a gasoline pump that killed her son. The wrongful-death and product liability action filed in Philadelphia...
Pennsylvania Sees Increase in Insurance Fraud
Aug 4 2010 // Pennsylvania saw a 22 percent increase in fraud complaints in the first half of the year, in a continuation of a trend that started two years ago, according to the Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority...
Pennsylvania Approves PMA Acquisition
Aug 4 2010 // Pennsylvania insurance regulators have given their OK to a planned acquisition of PMA Capital Cos. by Old Republic International Corp. Pennsylvania is the statutory regulator for PMA, which is based in Blue...
