Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Fire Science Throws Arson Convictions Across the Nation into Doubt
Dec 11 2006 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, while her father survived. Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the...
Report Recommends Phase-Out of Pa. Med Mal Abatement Program
Dec 8 2006 // Pennsylvania should get out of the medical malpractice insurance business and return the medical malpractice market to the private sector as soon as possible, according to a report. Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken...
Pa. High Court Revives Suits on Non-Profit Insurers’ Surplus
Dec 4 2006 // Pennsylvania’s highest court has breathed new life into lawsuits that ask the state’s four nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurers to use some of their cash surpluses to lower health-insurance...
Harleysville Worcester in Mass. Seeks to Switch Domicile to Pennsylvania
Nov 29 2006 // Harleysville Worcester Insurance Co. in Worcester, Mass. has requested the approval of the Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance to transfer corporate domicile to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Harleysville Worcester...
People and Places
Nov 20 2006 // Greg Thompson, president and chief executive officer of Thomco, is the new president of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association, a national organization serving program managers. Thomco, headquartered in...
News Currents
Nov 20 2006 // Newly elected Democratic governors in Massachusetts, New York and Maryland are expected to name their own insurance commissioners, although it’s to early to know who the successors might be, according to insurance...
People
Nov 19 2006 // Greg Thompson, president and chief executive officer of Thomco, is the new president of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association, a national organization serving program managers. Thomco, headquartered in...
With new governors could come new commissioners in Mass., Md., N.Y.
Nov 19 2006 // Newly elected Democratic governors in Massachusetts, New York and Maryland are expected to name their own insurance commissioners, although it’s to early to know who the successors might be, according to insurance...
Pa. Creates Fund for Injured Workers of Employers Without Workers’ Comp
Nov 15 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed legislation creating a fund to pay injured workers whose employers lack workers compensation coverage. The same bill — HB 2738 — increases the minimum amount an injured worker...
Pa. Man Caught Selling Dead Wife’s Ring Faces Fraud Charge
Nov 13 2006 // A suburban Philadelphia man was charged with insurance fraud after authorities said he reported his dead wife’s ring stolen and then tried to sell it online. Police said Gary Blank, 37, of Bensalem, Bucks County,...
N.J. Indicts Pa. Man for Alleged Role in ‘Give Up’ Auto Fraud
Nov 9 2006 // A Pennsylvania man has been indicted for his alleged role in an auto theft and insurance fraud ring in New jersey, accrding to state officials. New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Division of Criminal Justice...
Businessman Wins $3.5 Million in Defamation Suit Against Pa. Newspaper
Nov 1 2006 // A judge awarded $3.5 million in damages to a businessman and one of his companies in a defamation lawsuit against The Citizens’ Voice, a newspaper in Wilkes-Barre. Thomas A. Joseph alleged he and his business...
Pa. Renews Insurance Subsidies for Doctors for Fifth Year
Oct 30 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed a bill to continue state subsidies for a fifth straight year to help tens of thousands of physicians and other health care specialists pay their medical malpractice insurance...
Pennsylvania pursues backup role as ‘Wall Street West’
Oct 23 2006 // Pennsylvania is trying to convince the nation’s top financial services and insurance companies to establish backup operations in the state so that markets can recover quickly in the event of another terror strike on...
6 Pennsylvania: Wall Street West?
Oct 23 2006 // State makes pitch to be Wall Street’s backup location 6 Making Hartford shine again Conn. sees talent pool giving it edge in competition for insurance jobs 8 Mass. weighs jail time for workplace safety...
Pa., Del., Md. Agents Name Board Members
Oct 19 2006 // The Insurance Agents and Brokers of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland announced its new board members for the upcoming 2006-07 term at its annual board meeting in Baltimore. In addition to appointing board members to...
ProLawyer Insurance, LLC Announces MGA Appointment for an Admitted Lawyers Professional Liability Product in DE, MD & PA
Oct 16 2006 // Newtown, PA – ProLawyer Insurance, LLC is pleased to announce their Managing General Agent appointment with an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rated carrier for Lawyers Professional Liability in Delaware,...
States go global for new ideas to improve transportation safety
Oct 9 2006 // Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad. Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on...
8 Pa. court rebuffs Republicans on
Oct 9 2006 // liability award law Law will not be reinstated as they hoped 8 Bad buying habits in N.H. Audit blasts state insurance purchasing and risk management 10 Oh, deer it’s that season One insurer is bucking trend of deer...
States go global for new ideas to improve transportation safety
Oct 9 2006 // Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad. Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on...
