Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Frederick Mutual Exiting Personal Lines; Signs Renewal Deal With Farmers of Salem
Nov 8 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...
Lawmakers Advance Bill to Increase Transparency of Pennsylvania’s Universities
Nov 3 2023 // An effort supporters say will boost transparency in several leading Pennsylvania universities passed the House of Representatives on Monday, while the universities’ annual state subsidies remain snarled in the...
Spending Passes $17 Million in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Race
Nov 2 2023 // Millions more dollars are flowing into Pennsylvania`s race for an open state Supreme Court seat, as labor unions, trial lawyers and billionaires are spending heavily in the campaign to influence a court that has been...
Pennsylvania Restaurant to Pay $269K for Illegal Pay Practices, Child Labor Violations
Oct 25 2023 // A Collegeville, Pennsylvania restaurant and its owners must pay $268,660 in back wages, liquidated damages and punitive damages to satisfy a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation...
Rutter’s Stores Pays $1 Million for Payment Card Data Breach
Oct 16 2023 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced a settlement with York-based convenience store chain, Rutter’s, regarding cybersecurity attacks that exposed information from more than a million customer...
OSHA Fines Pennsylvania Candy Factory for Not Evacuating Before Fatal Explosion
Oct 10 2023 // A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people. R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed...
Pennsylvania Borough Settles Lawsuits Over Shooting at High School for $11M
Oct 3 2023 // An $11 million settlement has been reached in federal lawsuits over police gunfire outside a high school football game near Philadelphia in 2021 that killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded others, an attorney for the girl`s...
Employer Hosting Golf Outing Not Liable for Drunk Driver, Pennsylvania High Court Says
Oct 2 2023 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to extend the state’s liquor liability law to social hosts. The high court cited a half-century of precedent in upholding lower courts in a case where an employer hosting a...
Information Security Issue Stalls Federal Probe of Fatal Pennsylvania Candy Factory Blast
Sep 29 2023 // After months of discussion, federal safety officials and the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (PUC) remain at odds over release of documents that the National Transportation Safety Board says it needs for a...
Pennsylvania’s McConkey Insurance Acquires Gallen Agency of Berks County
Sep 5 2023 // McConkey Insurance & Benefits, a locally owned independent insurance agency based in York, Pennsylvania, announced its recent acquisition of Gallen Insurance Agency, located in Berks County. According to Michael...
Employee Impersonators Scam $2M from Pennsylvania Banks’ Customers, Officials Say
Aug 28 2023 // A theft ring stole nearly $2 million from bank customers in central Pennsylvania in an elaborate scheme in which the scammers, posing as bank employees, tricked people into giving up their account information, the attorney...
Pennsylvania Court Says State Police Must Show How They Monitor Social Media
Aug 25 2023 // Pennsylvania`s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state police can`t hide from the public its policy on how it monitors social media. Advocates for civil liberties cheered the decision. The law enforcement agency had...
Employer Hosting Golf Outing Not Liable for Drunk Driver, Pennsylvania High Court Says
Aug 24 2023 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to extend the state’s liquor liability law to social hosts. The high court cited a half-century of precedent in upholding lower courts in a case where an employer hosting a...
Cause Still Unknown in Pennsylvania House Explosion That Killed 6
Aug 23 2023 // Three houses at the center of a recent explosion near Pittsburgh that killed six people will need to be torn down and 10 others are not currently inhabitable, county officials said over the weekend. The Aug. 12 blast in...
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Study Suggests Links Between Fracking and Asthma, Lymphoma in Children
Aug 17 2023 // Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma...
Homeowners Had Issues with Hot Water Tank Before Deadly Blast in Pennsylvania
Aug 17 2023 // The owners of a home that exploded in western Pennsylvania last weekend were having issues with their hot water tank, authorities said, but the cause of the blast that killed five people — including two municipal...
Four Dead, Another Missing After Blast Destroys 3 Structures in Pennsylvania
Aug 14 2023 // Four people were dead and a fifth was unaccounted for following a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others Saturday morning, authorities said. Allegheny...
Philadelphia Archdiocese Settles Child Sex Abuse Claim for $3.5 Million
Aug 14 2023 // The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will pay $3.5 million to settle a civil case alleging a now-deceased priest sexually assaulted a teenage boy nearly two decades ago, and church officials knew of similar reports about the...
5 Killed in Pennsylvania When RV Blows Tire, Crashes into Tractor-Trailer
Aug 11 2023 // A recreational vehicle blew a tire on an interstate highway in Pennsylvania, crossed the median and collided head-on with a tractor- trailer, killing four people in the RV and the truck driver, authorities said. The crash...
