Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA Investigators Probing Western Pennsylvania Storm Toll
Jun 26 2009 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are expected to survey damage in two Pittsburgh-area communities that are seeking disaster aid for severe storm damage last week. The FEMA workers are expected to visit Turtle...
Coal Miner Killed by Falling Rock in Western Pennsylvania
Jun 26 2009 // A coal miner is dead after being hit by falling rock inside a mine in southwestern Pennsylvania. Consol Energy officials say 54-year-old Robert Maust of Uniontown died early Wednesday morning after being struck by falling...
Convicted Pennsylvania Judge Joyce to Keep $82K Pension
Jun 23 2009 // A retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge will not forfeit his $82,000 annual pension for the insurance fraud that landed him in federal prison for 46 months. That’s because the Pennsylvania State Employees’...
Herr Named COO at VIST Insurance in Pennsylvania
Jun 12 2009 // Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based VIST Financial Corp. has named Michael C. Herr as chief operating officer of the company’s insurance division, VIST Insurance. Herr had served previously as senior vice president with...
Keystone Takes Stake in East Coast Risk Management
Jun 9 2009 // Keystone Insurers Group has purchased an equity interest in East Coast Risk Management as part of a deal that will provide the group’s franchised locations with an expanded suite of services. Northumberland,...
Top 100 Profile: Strength in Numbers at Keystone Insurers Group
Jun 4 2009 // As Insurance Journal prepares for another Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agency List, to be published in our Aug. 3, 2009, magazine, the editors wanted to highlight a few of the current Top 100 agencies. Throughout...
Western Pennsylvania Town Tackles Arson Rampage on Vacant Homes
May 28 2009 // A western Pennsylvania town is trying to find an arsonist who has set at least 35 vacant structures on fire in the past 18 months. New Castle Fire Chief Thomas Maciarello says 90 percent of the fires have been in the same...
Historic Pennsylvania Inn Destroyed by Arson
May 22 2009 // A historic south-central Pennsylvania inn has been destroyed by arson. The fire began at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday at the 181-year-old Amity Hall Inn in Watts Township, Perry County, which is a little over 100 miles...
Small Plane Crashes in Pennsylvania Tree, But No Pilot is Found
May 22 2009 // A fire chief in northeastern Pennsylvania says a small plane is stuck in a tree about 20 feet above the ground but nobody knows who was flying it. Dingman Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief William Mikulak says a...
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Coverage for Late Notice
May 18 2009 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is praising a recent decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that it says upholds the plain meaning of insurance contracts. The Supreme Court’s, in Ace...
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Coverage for Late Notice
May 7 2009 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is trumpeting a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that it says upholds the importance of enforcing the plain meaning of insurance contract language. The...
Contractor Appeals in Pennsylvania Electrocution Lawsuit
May 4 2009 // A contractor wants an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the parents of a Pittsburgh-area soldier electrocuted in an Army barracks shower in Iraq. The notice of appeal filed Thursday by KBR Inc., doesn’t...
Pennsylvania Ex-Judge in Federal Prison for Insurance Fraud
May 1 2009 // An ex-judge for the Pennsylvania Superior Court has begun serving his 46-month sentence for insurance fraud at a minimum-security federal prison in West Virginia. Online federal prison record confirm that former judge...
Pennsylvania Man Convicted of $650K Workers’ Comp Swindle
Apr 24 2009 // A federal jury in northeastern Pennsylvania has found a businessman guilty of pilfering nearly $650,000 from a county workers’ compensation fund. Executive Claims Administration president Charles Costanzo of Dunmore...
Pennsylvania Nuke Victims Get $52.5M from Babcock & Wilcox
Apr 22 2009 // People who live near a former nuclear fuel plant in western Pennsylvania will get $52.5 million to settle their 14-year-old lawsuit against Babcock & Wilcox Co.. The settlement, approved Friday by a federal judge in...
Woman Sentenced in Western Pennsylvania Chiropractor’s Fraud
Apr 20 2009 // A North Carolina woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for helping a chiropractor in a $12 million kickback scheme that federal prosecutors called the largest health insurance fraud in western Pennsylvania...
Wife of Convicted Pennsylvania Ex-Judge Challenges Fed Forfeiture
Apr 20 2009 // The wife of a retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud is challenging efforts by federal prosecutors to seize the judge’s home. Prosecutors claim former Judge Michael Joyce bought the...
Pennsylvania Official Warns of Defunct Escrow Company
Apr 13 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general says a Chicago-based escrow company that abruptly halted operations last month may have left homeowners holding the bag. Attorney General Tom Corbett says that some consumers depended...
Pennsylvania Law Gives Prescription Power to Nurse-Midwives
Apr 13 2009 // A Pennsylvania law that empowers hundreds of nurse-midwives to prescribe drugs finally is in effect, ending the Keystone State’s distinction as the only state that barred the practice. Gov. Ed Rendell signed the bill...
Defamation Award Reviewed over Crooked Pennsylvania Judges’ Role
Apr 10 2009 // A $3.5 million defamation verdict against The Citizens’ Voice. newspaper will be reviewed because of the role in the case played by two former judges at the center of a juvenile justice scandal, the Pennsylvania...
