Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Penn. Encourages Consumers to Buy Flood Insurance as Spring Approaches
Mar 12 2012 // Pennsylvania insurance regulators are encouraging homeowners to consider buying flood insurance before the start of spring, citing the higher risk of severe flooding during warmer months. Pennsylvania is one of the most...
Federal Flood Aid to Pennsylvania Passes $550M Mark
Mar 9 2012 // Federal aid to victims of the historic flooding that struck eastern Pennsylvania last year has topped the half-billion-dollar mark. A photo of destroyed homes on Sept. 19, 2011, in Falls, Penn., caused by severe flooding...
Ban on Texting While Driving in Pennsylvania Goes Into Effect
Mar 8 2012 // A new state law requiring Pennsylvania drivers to pull over and stop if they want to use text-based communications went into effect at midnight Thursday, although it remains legal to use a hand-held cellphone behind the...
Pennsylvania High Court Overturns Malpractice Fund Ruling
Mar 2 2012 // Pennsylvania’s highest court is handing the Corbett administration a major victory in a dispute over a malpractice insurance fund. The state Supreme Court’s Wednesday decision overturned a Commonwealth Court...
Penn. Insurance Department Forms New Health Insurance Assistance Unit
Feb 28 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced last week it has formed a new consumer unit to respond to questions about health insurance. “This new unit supplements our health insurance complaint-handling...
Ratings Roundup: McMillan-Warner, Republic, School Boards
Feb 24 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Wisconsin-based McMillan-Warner...
Pennsylvania Township, Schools Pay $63K to Banned Fan Mom
Feb 24 2012 // A Pittsburgh-area suburb and its school district will pay $63,500 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she was wrongfully barred from watching her daughter’s seventh-grade basketball practices...
Pennsylvania Christian College Sues Over Birth Control Regs
Feb 22 2012 // A Christian college in western Pennsylvania has sued the federal government saying regulations that require employers to offer birth control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are “directly at...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department to Liquidate First Sealord Surety
Feb 13 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department Commissioner Michael Consedine announced last week that the Commonwealth Court has approved the department’s petition to liquidate First Sealord Surety Insurance. First Sealord,...
Pennsylvania Woman Gets Probation for Fake Cancer Claims
Feb 9 2012 // A Pennsylvania woman who submitted nearly $100,000 worth of fake cancer treatment insurance claims for herself and her husband must repay the money while she serves nearly nine years on probation. The Observer-Reporter of...
Penn. Regulators Approve 5.7% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Costs
Feb 3 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved a 5.7 percent decrease in overall workers’ compensation costs that will result in $160 million in savings for Pennsylvania employers. Regulators said employers can...
Penn. Regulators Recovered $3.2M in Restitution for Consumers in 2011
Feb 1 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department said its office of market regulation completed 334 enforcement actions and market conduct examinations in 2011. In all, the department issued 141 orders and adjudications, collected...
Nationwide Calls Harleysville Deal ‘Fair and Compelling’
Jan 25 2012 // Nationwide is brushing off Liberty Mutual’s allegation that Nationwide’s pending acquisition of Harleysville Mutual would unfairly benefit subsidiary Harleysville Group’s stock shareholders at the expense...
Pennsylvania Whistleblower Claims Hospital Medicare Fraud
Jan 24 2012 // A former northwestern Pennsylvania cardiologist says in a lawsuit a hospital improperly paid doctors who performed unnecessary procedures on patients, including two who died. The suit filed this month by Dr. Tullio...
Report: Liberty Mutual Failed in Bid to Buy Harleysville
Jan 23 2012 // It turns out there was another player in last year’s merger deal between Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. According to a news report, Liberty Mutual also made an offer last...
Key Risk Expands to Pennsylvania, Opens Harrisburg Office
Jan 19 2012 // Key Risk, a workers’ comp insurer and a member company of W. R. Berkley Corp., said it is expanding operations to Pennsylvania and is opening a new office in Harrisburg. Key Risk focuses solely on providing...
Swett & Crawford Appoints Transportation Underwriter in Pennsylvania
Jan 18 2012 // Wholesale intermediary Swett & Crawford appointed David Pohle as Media, Penn.-based transportation underwriter for its transportation practice group. David Pohle Pohle joins Swett & Crawford after eight years at...
Company Cautions Against Linking Well, Ohio Quakes
Jan 13 2012 // Boos, applause and the occasional outburst marked a gathering of about 500 Ohio residents seeking explanations for a series of earthquakes that has hit their area since deep injection drilling came to town. At a news...
Report: Liberty Mutual Failed in Bid to Buy Harleysville
Jan 6 2012 // It turns out there was another player in last year’s merger deal between Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. According to a news report, Liberty Mutual also made an offer last...
Penn. Senator Asks Flood Insurers to Quickly Process Remaining Claims
Dec 29 2011 // U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) is asking flood insurance companies to quickly process remaining claims from Irene and Lee. He says some 25 percent of the claims in Pennsylvania are still not...
