Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Bus Carrying 26 Pennsylvania Students on Field Trip to D.C. Overturns on I-95
May 17 2017 // A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were...
Amtrak Engineer Won’t be Charged in Deadly Pennsylvania Crash
May 15 2017 // The speeding Amtrak engineer involved in a derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200 others in Philadelphia won’t face criminal charges, the city district attorney’s office said. Prosecutors...
Business Moves
May 15 2017 // Validus, Crop Insurance Agency Validus Holdings Ltd. has completed its acquisition of Crop Risk Services business (CRS), a primary crop insurance managing general agent, from Archer Daniels Midland Co. In the deal that was...
Chubb’s Oldest Active Subsidiary Receives Pennsylvania Historical Marker
May 15 2017 // Chubb, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), has dedicated a Pennsylvania historical marker to the Insurance Company of North America (INA), Chubb’s oldest subsidiary...
Alera Group Acquires Pennsylvania’s Striewig Bonding Agency
May 9 2017 // Alera Group, based in Deerfield, Ill, has acquired Striewig Bonding Agency Inc. of Wormleysburg, Penn., effective May 1, 2017. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Since 1952, Striewig Bonding Agency has managed...
Regulators Link Hoverboard to Deadly Pennsylvania Fire
May 5 2017 // Federal safety regulators believe a hoverboard is to blame for a fire that killed two girls in Pennsylvania. The girls, ages 10 and 3, were killed March 10 in Harrisburg. They are believed to be the first in the U.S. to...
One Floodgate Fails to Automatically Stop Traffic During Pennsylvania Storm
May 4 2017 // Pittsburgh, Penn., public safety officials are trying to determine why a rain-activated gate failed to automatically stop traffic from entering a low-lying roadway during a storm Monday afternoon. Instead, a police patrol...
Pennsylvania’s Insurance Services United Purchases Lewis Casualty
May 3 2017 // Insurance Services United (ISU), a full-service insurance agency in York, Penn., has purchased Lewis Casualty, an insurance services company based in Quarryville, Penn. The purchase of Lewis Casualty is the second recent...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Becomes Partner in PA Forward Initiative
May 2 2017 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller recently joined with leaders of the Pennsylvania Library Association and the York County Library System to announce a partnership to provide consumer information on...
Pennsylvania Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty in $8.2M Promissory Note Scam
May 1 2017 // An insurance agent pleaded guilty Thursday in a promissory note scam that bilked nearly 80 clients out of $8.2 million. John Hogan, 77, of Swissvale, Penn., entered his pleas to five counts of mail fraud in the scheme run...
Chubb’s Oldest Active Subsidiary Receives Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Apr 28 2017 // Chubb, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), has dedicated a Pennsylvania historical marker to the Insurance Company of North America (INA), Chubb’s oldest subsidiary...
Motorists Mutual, BrickStreet Mutual Finalize Joint Venture
Apr 24 2017 // Ohio-based property/casualty insurer Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. and West Virginia-based workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. Inc., have been granted regulatory approvals to affiliate...
Pennsylvania Says It Busted Up Fraudulent License Plate Ring
Apr 21 2017 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general’s office on Wednesday charged a dozen people as part of an organized crime ring that it said had made millions of dollars renting out fraudulently obtained license plates,...
Pioneer Expands Miscellaneous E&O Division with 2 Pennsylvania Appointments
Apr 20 2017 // Pioneer Underwriters (Pioneer) has appointed Milan Devetak as senior underwriter and Andrew Nowlan as underwriter in the Miscellaneous E&O, Technology & Cyber division of its U.S. underwriting platform, Pioneer...
Reports Describe How Pennsylvania Firefighter Died, Oxygen Hose Burned
Apr 19 2017 // Investigators say a Philadelphia, Penn., firefighter died because a hose supplying her with oxygen had burned through and they found problems with how her colleagues responded to her seven emergency distress signals. The...
Insurance Waivers in Pennsylvania and Other States Sometimes Missed Violations
Apr 18 2017 // Waivers granted in Pennsylvania and many other states to allow convicted felons to become insurance agents have sometimes missed ongoing violations, a newspaper reported. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that since 2004...
Pennsylvania’s Keystone Insurers Hires Craig from The Beacon Group
Apr 12 2017 // Keystone Insurers Group, a Northumberland, Penn.-headquartered property and casualty insurance partnership, has named Charles A. “Tripp” Craig III director of business development. Craig has 30 years of...
Pennsylvania’s V3 Insurance Partners Hires 2, Promotes 1
Apr 7 2017 // V3 Insurance Partners LLC (V3), a Newtown, Penn.-based specialty program administrator offering insurance programs targeted at middle market companies, has added two senior executives to its professional lines practice –...
Pennsylvania’s Venture Programs Hires Wright and Starr
Apr 6 2017 // Venture Programs, a West Chester, Penn.-based national insurance program administrator, has added Janet Wright as a risk manager and Jeanne Starr as a SUITELIFE regional underwriter. In this new role, Wright will be...
Pennsylvania’s Penn Community Insurance Hires Frentzen and Roberts
Apr 5 2017 // Penn Community Insurance, a Perkasie, Penn.-based wholly owned subsidiary of Penn Community Bank, has hired Peter Frentzen and Robert J. Roberts. Frentzen and Roberts bring additional skills and capabilities to Penn...
