Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Nov 2 2015 // Kelso, Risk Strategies Risk Strategies Co., a Boston-Based insurance and benefits brokerage, and Kelso & Co., a New York-based private equity firm, have signed a definitive agreement whereby Kelso will acquire a...
Insurance Agents & Brokers in Penn. Announces Newly Elected Directors
Oct 29 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The...
Trial Ordered for Penn. Homeowner Accused of Arson, Brother’s Death
Oct 26 2015 // A Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on charges that he paid his brother to set fire to his northeastern Pennsylvania home as part of an insurance scam, a blaze that claimed his brother’s life. A...
Erie Indemnity CEO Cavanaugh to Retire at End of 2016
Oct 26 2015 // Erie Indemnity Co. announced that Terrence W. Cavanaugh, president and chief executive officer, will retire at the close of 2016. Erie Indemnity Company provides management services to the member companies of the Erie...
HM Insurance Group Announces 2 New Hires in Pennsylvania
Oct 23 2015 // HM Insurance Group in Pittsburgh announced the hiring of Alex Fickes as marketing underwriter, Workers’ Compensation, for HM Insurance’s central and eastern Pennsylvania territories. Fickes previously worked as...
Penn. Reminds Drivers: Insurers Can’t Add Surcharge for Deer-Related Crash
Oct 20 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is reminding drivers that their insurance company cannot add a surcharge to their auto premium for a crash involving a deer. The commissioner also urged drivers to be alert...
Ensuring Fair Treatment for Pennsylvania Consumers
Oct 19 2015 // That consumers get a fair deal when buying insurance is crucial for families’ financial well-being and peace of mind, and also why I have recently taken two actions to ensure policyholders are treated fairly. One...
Church Mutual to Acquire Penn. School Boards Association Insurance Holdings
Oct 15 2015 // Church Mutual Insurance Company, a Merrill, Wisconsin-based insurer of religious organizations, announced that it has agreed to acquire the insurance operations of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. Terms of the...
EEOC Sues Penn.’s Open Records Office for Alleged Age Discrimination
Oct 13 2015 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Oct. 7 that it has filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s Office of Public Records for allegedly violating federal law when it refused to hire an...
AssuredPartners Acquires Wilson H. Flock Insurance in Pennsylvania
Oct 12 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that its subsidiary, AssuredPartners of New Jersey, has acquired Wilson H. Flock Insurance Inc., an independent agency based in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not...
Pennsylvania Holds Hearing on Issue of Surprise Medical Bills
Oct 5 2015 // Advocates for consumers, insurers, hospitals and doctors clashed on Oct. 1 at a Pennsylvania hearing on surprise bills for expensive out-of-network health care services sent to patients who thought their treatments were...
Pennsylvania Reminds Health Insurers to Keep Provider Directories Up to Date
Sep 24 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is reminding health insurers that they must keep their provider directories up to date and that consumers should not pay higher out-of-network costs if they use a health...
Engle-Hambright & Davies Announces 2 Appointments in Pennsylvania
Sep 22 2015 // Engle-Hambright & Davies Inc. (EHD), an independent insurance agency based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, hired Matthew Swanick as Construction and Surety Practice group leader in the Commercial Department. Prior to...
Pennsylvania to Hold Hearing on Health Insurer Balance Billing
Sep 21 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department will hold a public hearing in October on the issue of “balance billing” of health insurance...
IA&B in Pennsylvania Announces Officers for 2015-16 Administrative Year
Sep 18 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for the Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations. The following directors have...
Pennsylvania Commissioner Issues Consumer Alert on ‘Widow’s Penalty’
Sep 18 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller issued a consumer alert announcing that she will not approve auto insurance rate filings that contain the so-called “widow’s penalty,” under which a widow...
Intellectual Property News: KitKat, Williams Sonoma, Whole Foods, Skechers, Segway, GoDaddy, Apple
Sep 18 2015 // This wrap-up of recent intellectual property cases covers chocolate bar shapes, cookware designs, sneaker similarities, Korean TV copyright device, Quizno’s commercials, personal transporter technology, Oscar award...
Odds of Drivers Having Collision with Animal: 1 Out of 169
Sep 14 2015 // The odds drivers will have a claim from hitting a deer, elk or moose is 1 out of 169, the same as in 2014. That likelihood more than doubles during October, November and December, when deer collisions are most prevalent,...
Penn. to Hold Hearing on Balance Billing of Health Insurance Consumers
Sep 10 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that her department will hold a public hearing on the issue of “balance billing” of health insurance consumers. Balance billing occurs when a patient...
District of Columbia, Maine, Pennsylvania Nix Price Optimization
Sep 7 2015 // The District of Columbia, Maine and Pennsylvania have recently joined a growing number of states and jurisdictions that issued directives prohibiting the use of price optimization. In Washington, D.C., the Department of...
