Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Business Moves
Feb 5 2024 // East Arthur J. Gallagher, Hughes Insurance Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired the Queensbury, New York-based independent insurance agency, Hughes Insurance Agency Inc. From its headquarters in Queensbury and an office...
2 Pennsylvania Homeowners Urged to Evacuate Due to Landslide
Feb 2 2024 // Authorities have urged two western Pennsylvania homeowners to evacuate their residences due to a nearby landslide. The slide in the Sonoma Ridge development in Allegheny County’s Moon Township closed part of a road...
Pennsylvania High Court Backs ‘Regular Use’ Exclusion for Underinsured Motorist Cover
Feb 2 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a “regular use” exclusion in an auto insurance policy that prohibits underinsured motorist coverage for injuries involving a non-owned vehicle that an insured used...
Pennsylvania Counties Still Restoring Systems After Cyber Incidents
Feb 1 2024 // Two Pennsylvania county governments — Bucks and Washington— reported some progress this week restoring computer systems and overcoming the effects of cyber incidents. But both still have work to do to return to...
Pennsylvania Counties Dealing With Cyber Incidents
Jan 26 2024 // Pennsylvania’s Bucks County reported that it is continuing to investigate a cybersecurity incident that caused an extended outage of the Emergency Communications’ Department’s computer-aided dispatch...
AM Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Farmers Mutual Fire of Pennsylvania
Jan 26 2024 // Ratings firm AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable of Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Marble, Pennsylvania. At the same time, it has affirmed the insurer’s Financial Strength Rating of A...
Pennsylvania Slashes Insurance Licensing Fees, Speeds Up Application Reviews
Jan 24 2024 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) announced the removal of certain fees associated with insurance licensing forms and faster review times for pending applications. “Accelerating our review time for pending...
Declarations
Jan 22 2024 // Auto Severity “Workplace patterns have changed post-pandemic with work-from-home arrangements, reducing the number of vehicles on the road. However, driver inattentiveness and riskier driving habits have become more...
States and Congress Wrestle With Cybersecurity at Water Utilities
Jan 3 2024 // The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its...
Pennsylvania Law Assures Medical Expense Coverage for Injured Unlicensed Driver
Dec 28 2023 // An unlicensed driver exclusion in a Pennsylvania auto insurance policy does not apply to allow an insurer to deny statutorily mandated first party medical expense benefits, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled. The...
Banned for 12 Years, Fracking Poised to Make a Comeback in Pennsylvania’s ‘Gasland’
Dec 22 2023 // A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the...
Storm in Northeast Take 5 Lives; Causes Power Outages, Floods, Road Damage
Dec 21 2023 // Just days before the Christmas holiday, people across the northeastern U.S. were mopping up Tuesday after a major storm dumped torrential rains and brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to Maine, as some rivers in the...
Explosion at Hotel in Pennsylvania’s Amish Community Kills 1 Person
Dec 20 2023 // One person was found dead after an early morning explosion and fire at a hotel in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish-related tourism area, authorities said Monday. State police in Lancaster County said the blast was...
Northeastern Storm Causes Power Outages, Flooded Roads, Fallen Trees, Travel Delays
Dec 20 2023 // A storm barreled up the East Coast on Monday, flooding roads and downing trees in the Northeast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, and forcing flight cancelations and school closures. More than 5 inches (13...
Fire Marshal Investigating Blast That Injured One, Severely Damaged Pennsylvania Home
Dec 18 2023 // One person was injured and a house was severely damaged Friday by an early morning explosion at a home about 10 miles northwest of Reading, Pennsylvania. A male was hospitalized after the blast just before 7 a.m. in...
New Jersey Brings Civil Suits Against 3 Gun Dealers Over Visibility, Security, Ghost Guns
Dec 14 2023 // New Jersey`s attorney general sued three firearms dealers Tuesday, alleging one illegally stored firearms that were visible from outside a store and that the two others tried to sell “ghost guns.” The suits...
Pennsylvania Forms Flood Insurance Affordability Task Force
Dec 7 2023 // Pennsylvania has established a task force to recommend policies to make flood insurance more affordable. The Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force will examine potential programs that provide premium discounts,...
World Insurance Purchases Exchange Underwriters From Pennsylvania Bank
Dec 4 2023 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates has purchased the personal and commercial insurance agency Exchange Underwriters, Inc. from CB Financial Services, Inc., the holding company for Pennsylvania-based Community...
Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States
Dec 4 2023 // A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made,...
Frederick Mutual Exiting Personal Lines; Signs Renewal Deal
Dec 4 2023 // Frederick Mutual, which is exiting the personal lines market and focusing strictly on commercial lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, has reached a renewal rights agreement with another insurer for the bulk of...
