East News for April 2002
- W.R. Berkley Reports Record $31 Million Q1 Operating Earnings
 - Prudential Agents Reject Union
 - Arrest of Two NY Agents Prompts Fraud Warnings
 - Harleysville Reports Q1 Operating Earnings Up 13%, Net Income Rises 33%
 - Insurers Expected to Pay $15 Billion to Clean Up, Rebuild NYC
 - Study Finds Mass Still Has Lowest Workers’
 - Penn-America Reports $2 Million Q1 Operating Income
 - Zurich Offers Home Environmental Protection Insurance for Homeowners with a Residential Fuel Oil Tan
 - Study Finds Penn. Workers’ Comp Gives More Services for Less Cost
 - NY Man Arrested for Disability Fraud
 - Erie Posts Strong Q1 Income Gains
 - Donegal Group’s Q1 Revenues Off 26%
 - Albert Beer Receives PIANY’s Executive of the Year Award
 - Philadelphia Consolidated Posts 38% Q1 Net Income Gain to $10.7 Million
 - Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires NiiS/Apex Group
 - Serio Appoints Joseph A. DeMauro Deputy Superintendent
 - Highlands Reported Considering Chapter 11
 - Serio Names Peter J. Molinaro, Louis W. Pietroluongo to NYSID Posts
 - John D’Agostino to represent PIANJ on DOBI Auto Reform Committee
 - OneBeacon to Host PIANY Education Classes
 - PIANJ Applauds Surplus Lines Proposals
 - NY Contractors Finding Coverage Hard to Obtain
 - Liberty International Underwriters Offering Cyber Insurance through Cogentric Alcon Software
 - Silverstein and GMAC Settle WTC Dispute
 - NJ Insurance Commissioner Faces State Farm Deadline
 - Two NY Doctors Plead Guity to Insurance Fraud
 - Penn-America Group Announces 3-for-2 Stock Split
 - Funeral Services Held for Neil D. Levin – Former NYSID Superintendent Headed Port Authority
 - John Kessock Jr. Resigns as President, Director of Mutual Risk Management
 - Suspicious Lightning Strikes Lead to Arrest of NY Man for Fraud
 - PID Sets Hearing Date for Provident Mutual’s Proposed Sponsored Demutualization
 - NJ Industry and Consumer Groups Launch Campaign for Auto Insurance Reform
 - NY’s Serio Sees Federal Auto Fraud Bill as Supporting State Efforts
 - Brown Brown Acquires NJ’s Turner Agency
 - NY Court Lifts Stay on Applying Reg 68 Rules
 - Conn. Court Upholds Exclusive Right of Tribal Council to Hear Lawsuit
 - Brooklyn Man Arrested in WTC Fraud; Tried to Insure Destroyed Auto
 - Penn-America Names John D. Curry, Nancy M. Rankin VP’s for Two Subsidiaries
 - American Re’s Albert Beer to Keynote PIANY’s RAP Meeting
 - Highlands Group Reports $277 Million Q4 Loss, Plans Reorganization
 - NYSID to Hold Consumer Forum in Buffalo April 11
 - Rochester Man Charged with Auto Insurance Fraud
 - NYSID to Hold Public Forum in Rochester April 12
 - Allcity Posts $18 Million Loss for 2001
 - Betsy A. Magnuson Named President of Herbert H. Landy Agency
 - Copart Opens New Location in Maine
 - NYSID Approves 19.5% Rise in Assigned Risk Plan