Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania Judge Tosses Burned-by-Price-Scanner Suit
May 3 2010 // An Erie County, Pennsylvania judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the guardian of a 12-year-old girl who claimed the girl was burned and traumatized when a convenience store clerk allegedly aimed a hand-held price...
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May 3 2010 // TD Insurance Inc. in South Portland, Maine, has hired Leah K. Halsey as an account executive in employee benefits. She is responsible for working with employers throughout northern New England to design, implement and...
Pennsylvania Exotic Dancer Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 30 2010 // A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with workers’ comp fraud after authorities found her moonlighting as an exotic dancer while collecting benefits from a waitress job she claimed she couldn’t do. In 2007,...
Norman-Spencer Acquires Pennsylvania-Based JC Stevens
Apr 29 2010 // Pennsylvania-based JC Stevens, a program underwriter specializing in cranes, has been acquired by Norman-Spencer for an undisclosed sum. “JC Stevens has a built a strong reputation as a quality underwriting and...
Ivey Appointed Head of CNA’s Reading, Pa. Branch
Apr 28 2010 // CNA announced that Robert Ivey, who recently joined the company as branch vice president of its Philadelphia office, has also been appointed branch vice president of its Reading, Pennsylvania office. In his new position,...
Insurer Won’t Pay Legal Costs in Pennsylvania Webcam Spying
Apr 26 2010 // An insurance company is balking at paying legal costs for a suburban Philadelphia school district accused of spying on students through laptop webcams. Meanwhile, a lawyer for a student suing the Lower Merion School...
Pennsylvania Judge Tosses Burned-by-Price-Scanner Suit
Apr 22 2010 // An Erie County, Pennsylvania judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the guardian of a 12-year-old girl who claimed the girl was burned and traumatized when a convenience store clerk allegedly aimed a hand-held price...
Pennsylvania Ordered to Add Millions to Malpractice Fund
Apr 19 2010 // A state court has ruled that Pennsylvania has mishandled a fund to help physicians pay malpractice premiums and ordered the state to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of its general fund to resolve a pair of...
Two Hurt in Fire at Pennsylvania Pipe Manufacturing Plant
Apr 15 2010 // Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say two people were injured, one seriously, in a fire at a pipe manufacturing plant. The fire erupted after a furnace burst around 8:30 a.m. Monday at Victaulic Co. in Lower Macungie...
Delestienne Promoted to Corporate Trainer at USG in Pennsylvania
Apr 7 2010 // Commercial insurance broker USG Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Cara Delestienne to corporate trainer, based in the firm’s Pennsylvania office. This is Delestienne’s third promotion since joining USG in...
Arkansas Suspends Lincoln General Insurance Company
Apr 1 2010 // Arkansas regulators have suspended the Certificate of Authority of Lincoln General Insurance Company, domiciled in Pennsylvania, due to the company’s “financially hazardous condition.” In a March 24...
John Yurconic Agency Signs 10-Year Lease at Pennsylvania Mall
Mar 31 2010 // John Yurconic Agency Insurance agency has signed a 10-year lease extension for its office inside the 25th Street Shopping Center in Easton, Pennsylvania. The agency relocated to the western side of the shopping center,...
Pennsylvania Electrical Worker Hospitalized After Blast
Mar 30 2010 // A northeastern Pennsylvania utility worker has been burned in an underground fire that occurred while he worked to restore service during a power outage. Officials from PPL say the unidentified man was hospitalized in...
Pennsylvania Highway Deaths Decline to Record Low
Mar 17 2010 // The number of deaths on Pennsylvania’s highways has plunged to its lowest level since Model Ts still chugged along the roads of the commonwealth, and officials are crediting years of safety programs but cannot rule...
West Pennsylvania Couple Sues Target over Toy Box Injury
Mar 11 2010 // A suburban Pittsburgh couple is suing Target, claiming their daughter sustained a brain injury when a toy box lid fell on her. Eric and Laura Surman, of Cranberry, claim 2-year-old Camryn Surman had her air supply cut off...
Tractor-Trailer Cargo Thefts on the Rise in Pennsylvania
Mar 4 2010 // Authorities say thieves are increasingly targeting tractor-trailers in Pennsylvania to steal their loads of electronics, food or drink, later abandoning the trailers at the side of the road. Sometimes the culprits steal...
‘Snowed-In’ Ohio Man Charged in Western Pennsylvania Arson
Feb 25 2010 // An Ohio man is charged with setting fire to a western Pennsylvania mobile home he used to rent after police say heavy snows kept him from driving away. Thirty-three-year-old Robert Lee Armstrong, of Warren, Ohio, is...
17 People in Charged in Pennsylvania Insurance Scam
Feb 22 2010 // The U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI in Philadelphia say 17 people are facing charges of mail fraud in what authorities call a scheme that defrauded insurance companies of more than $630,000. Authorities on Friday...
Heavy Snows Plaguing Roofs in Western Pennsylvania County
Feb 17 2010 // Fire trucks and sheep are the latest things to be endangered by roofs sagging or collapsing beneath heavy snows in one western Pennsylvania county. The Amwell Township Volunteer Fire Department on Monday had to move $1...
Cause of Pennsylvania Feed Storage Building Blaze Probed
Feb 16 2010 // Fire investigators will start today to try to find out what sparked a blaze that destroyed a feed storage building at the Cumberland Valley Business Park in central Pennsylvania. Firefighters from the nearby Letterkenny...
