Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Delaware River States Agree to Joint Flood Control Study
Oct 5 2006 // Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey have agreed to share the costs of a $500,000 study to examine the effects of operational changes at major reservoirs throughout the entire Delaware River basin. The state...
Officials Explore Asbestos Clean-Up at Historic Valley Forge in Pa.
Oct 3 2006 // Valley Forge National Historical Park officials are exploring ways to clean up asbestos from beneath the ground where George Washington and his troops camped and trained during the winter of 1777-1778. The chemicals,...
OSHA Seeking $84K Fine in Pa. Workplace Elevator Death
Oct 3 2006 // A contractor faces $63,000 in federal workplace safety fines for an accident in which a subcontractor’s employee was decapitated by an elevator. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed the...
Pa. High Court Denies Reinstatement of Liability Award Law
Oct 2 2006 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected an effort by two high-ranking Republican lawmakers to revive a business-friendly law that would have altered how civil lawsuit awards are paid. In a one-sentence order released...
