Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Start Debating Medical Marijuana Bill
Mar 17 2016 // The Pennsylvania House of Representatives took up a proposal this week to permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes, a potential breakthrough for supporters who have worked for several years to get legalization...
Penn. Hails House Committee Passage of Private Flood Insurance Bill
Mar 17 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller hailed a recent vote by the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee approving the Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act (H.R. 2901). Miller...
Pennsylvania Families Win $4.24M Verdict Against Gas Driller
Mar 11 2016 // Two couples were awarded nearly $4.25 million on Thursday after a federal jury found one of the largest natural gas producers in Pennsylvania was responsible for the contamination of their well water, capping a six-year...
Pennsylvania Reclaimed $185M for Consumers in 2015
Mar 7 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department reclaimed $185,055,050 for insurance consumers in the state during 2015. The commissioner said that throughout 2015,...
Penn. Fracking Trial Begins; Driller Accused of Contaminating Drinking Water
Feb 24 2016 // Cabot Oil & Gas Co contaminated drinking water for two Pennsylvania families in its rush to begin fracking operations during the state’s natural gas boom, a lawyer told a federal jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania,...
Pennsylvania Reclaimed $185M for Insurance Consumers in 2015
Feb 24 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department reclaimed $185,055,050 for insurance consumers throughout the state during 2015. The commissioner said that throughout...
Pennsylvania Highlights Private Flood Insurance
Feb 22 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department has created a new “one-stop shop” webpage to make information on private market flood insurance more...
AssuredPartners Acquires Encompass Risk Solutions in Pennsylvania
Feb 18 2016 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced Thursday that it has acquired Encompass Risk Solutions Inc., an independent agency based in Warminster, Pennsylvania, with two additional offices in York, Pennsylvania, and Marietta, Georgia....
Alliant Hires Harper for Employee Benefits Group in Pennsylvania
Feb 18 2016 // Specialty insurance broker Alliant Insurance Services has hired Craig Harper as first vice president within its Employee Benefits Group. He will be based in Alliant’s King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, office. In his...
Pennsylvania OKs Average Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease of 0.9%
Feb 12 2016 // The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB) said the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved PCRB’s filing which calls for an overall average workers’ compensation loss cost decrease of 0.90...
P/C Retail, Wholesale Agency 2015 M&A Highlights by Region, State
Feb 10 2016 // When agency consultants at Reagan Consulting hosted more than 150 industry leaders at a workshop on agent/broker mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recently, the mood was upbeat, since brokers are enjoying their best...
P/C Retail, Wholesale Agency M&A Activity Brisk in 2015
Feb 8 2016 // When agency consultants at Reagan Consulting hosted more than 150 industry leaders at a workshop on agent/broker mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recently, the mood was upbeat, since many brokers have continued to enjoy...
Pennsylvania Eyes an End to ‘Surprise’ Medical Bills
Feb 8 2016 // Pennsylvania’s insurance regulator is floating a proposal to protect Pennsylvanians against expensive medical bills at out-of-network rates, including emergency care. Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller said on Jan....
Pennsylvania Police Challenged in Catching Texting Motorists
Feb 4 2016 // Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Assistant District Attorney Heath Long could not prove that a young man was texting when he careened his pickup into another, killing a grandfather and his teenaged granddaughter. “What...
Penn. Encourages Homeowners to Look at Private Market Flood Coverage
Feb 4 2016 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has created a new “one-stop shop” webpage to make information on private market flood insurance more accessible to Pennsylvania homeowners and renters. In announcing the...
Penn. Commissioner Proposes Measures to Stop Surprise Medical Bills
Jan 20 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller has announced a proposal to protect health care consumers from surprise balance bills and is soliciting public comment. Surprise balance bills happen when a consumer...
AssuredPartners Acquires Roehrs & Co. in Pennsylvania
Jan 19 2016 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that it has acquired Roehrs & Company Inc., an independent agency based in Exton, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Roehrs & Company was founded in 1923 by...
Former Pennsylvania Theater Owner Gets Prison for Insurance Fraud
Jan 13 2016 // A former Pennsylvania theater owner convicted of falsifying insurance claims involving a flood at one playhouse and a fire at another has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Federal investigators say New Hope,...
Obama Nominates 4 to NARAB National Producer Licensing Governing Board
Jan 12 2016 // President Barack Obama has nominated four individuals to sit on the 13-member governing board of a new national insurance producer licensing system. They are state insurance regulators from South Carolina and Minnesota and...
Pennsylvania’s Donegal Buys Out Activist Investor for $70M
Jan 11 2016 // Gregory M. Shepard, an activist investor who’s been a major stockholder of Pennsylvania-based Donegal Group and a frequent critic of the company, has sold off his shares. Shepard’s stake consisted of 3.675...
