Baltimore-based Insurance broker RCM&D acquired the commercial property and casualty insurance division of Philadelphia-based TRION Inc. and has opened a Philadelphia regional office to serve clients throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Dave Haney will serve as managing director …
The southwestern Pennsylvania township where a major concert amphitheater is located plans to charge a 5 percent tax on tickets so it can afford a police force to patrol the venue. The Hanover Township supervisors last year voted to disband …
A bill that would make the Pennsylvania insurance commissioner an elected position has been introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. Legislation sponsored by Rep Neal Goodman, a Democrat from Mahanoy City, would change the insurance commissioner’s job from an …
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has shut down Pittsburgh-based Morry Hoffman Agency Inc. for allegedly misappropriating $1 million in premiums. The agency wrote commercial policies for restaurants including liquor liability coverage. Within a two-year timeframe, the department discovered that the agency …
Pennsylvania lawmakers are once again eyeing a tort reform package — a resurrection of the “Fair Share” act — that many in the insurance industry say would help put downward pressure on premiums and rein in what critics say is …
A 4-foot-long section of natural gas pipe suspected of causing a massive explosion and fire that killed five people has been unearthed and will be transported to an engineering firm for analysis. Workers began removing the piece of cast iron …
An advertising and public relations campaign by the Pennsylvania agency that coordinates insurance fraud prevention activities is increasing the public’s understanding of various kinds of fraud, according to a new study by the group. The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority …
Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Tom Corbett has will nominate lawyer Michael Consedine as the state’s next insurance commissioner. Consedine, 41, is a partner in the Harrisburg office of law firm Saul Ewing, where he serves vice chair of the firm’s insurance practice …
Brown & Brown Inc. reports that Charles H. Charlie Lydecker has been elected regional president responsible for a number of the company’s retail operations in the state of Florida and for certain of its retail operations in Arizona, New Jersey, …
National wholesale broker USG Insurance Services, Inc. has added Jason Holloman as a property broker specializing in large commercial and catastrophe-exposed risks. He will be based in USG’s office outside Atlanta. Holloman most recently held a position as a wholesale …
