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Lyft Joins Uber in Getting Final OK for Pennsylvania Service
Feb 13 2015 // Pennsylvania’s regulators say they’re satisfied with the plan by the ridesharing service Lyft to comply with conditions for a two-year license for experimental service to operate everywhere in the state except...
Pennsylvania College Loses Obamacare Contraceptive Challenge
Feb 12 2015 // The Obama administration won a reversal of a court ruling that would have shielded a Christian college in Pennsylvania from a provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring religious nonprofits to indirectly facilitate...
Cal U. of Pennsylvania Teaches Tricky Science of Predicting Snow
Feb 10 2015 // Predicting winter weather is a slippery slope. People depend on weather forecasters to tell them when to stock up on milk and bread, but if a predicted blizzard doesn’t materialize, a flurry of complaints surface on...
Brown & Brown Acquires Liberty Insurance Brokers in Philadelphia
Feb 9 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown of Pennsylvania LP has acquired certain assets of Liberty Insurance Brokers Inc. and its related affiliate companies in Philadelphia. Terms of the...
Penn. Defense Attorney Fights $1M Fine Over Banned Testimony
Feb 4 2015 // A single word of testimony at a medical-malpractice trial has cost a Pennsylvania lawyer a nearly $1 million fine she says threatens her home, her family and her small law firm. Insurance defense attorney Nancy Raynor says...
IA&B Adds to Sales Center Staff in Pennsylvania
Jan 27 2015 // Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B), a tri-state trade organization based in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, hired John Angstadt as business development specialist and Cheryl Shiffer as professional lines account...
Glatfelter Insurance Group Announces 2 Promotions in Pennsylvania
Jan 22 2015 // Glatfelter Insurance Group (GIG) in York, Pennsylvania, promoted John Solari to president of Glatfelter Underwriting Services and chief underwriting officer for Glatfelter Programs, and Jim Partridge to president of...
Penn. Insurance Dept.: 2014 Was a Banner Year for Consumer Protection
Jan 21 2015 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department said 2014 was a banner year for consumer protection. The department said its Office of Market Regulation concluded 2014 by collecting more than $4 million in penalties and fines and...
Northwest Savings Bank Acquires B.J. Petruso Agency in Penn.
Jan 13 2015 // Northwest Savings Bank in Warren, Pennsylvania, announced the acquisition of B.J. Petruso Agency, a property/casualty and life insurance agency located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not...
Pennsylvania Store Manager Robbed at Gunpoint Wins Workers’ Comp
Jan 8 2015 // Is being robbed at gunpoint in a Pennsylvania state liquor store an “abnormal working condition” or not? Since 2008, Gregory Kochanowicz has claimed it is, and now that the Commonwealth Court agrees, he’s...
AssuredPartners Acquires A.J. Lupas Insurance Agency in Pennsylvania
Jan 7 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired A.J. Lupas Insurance Agency Inc. in Plains, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. A.J. Lupas provides coverage for individuals, businesses, and life and health...
Police: Fewer Pennsylvania Crashes, Injuries Over Christmas Weekend
Dec 31 2014 // Happy holidays meant safer driving this year in Pennsylvania. State police say they investigated 728 crashes during the five-day Christmas holiday driving period, Dec. 24 through Dec. 28. That’s 172 fewer crashes...
Lyft Gets Pennsylvania Regulatory Nod, Except in Philadelphia
Dec 22 2014 // Ride-sharing service Lyft received regulatory approval on Dec. 18 to operate for two years everywhere in Pennsylvania except for Philadelphia, giving it 30 days to accept conditions required by the Pennsylvania Public...
PCRB Proposes 5.99% Average Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease in Penn.
Dec 19 2014 // The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB) has submitted a filing of Pennsylvania loss costs and related rating values with a proposed effective date of April 1, 2015. PCRB said in its Circular No. 1636 on Dec. 15...
Northwest Insurance Services in Pennsylvania Joins The Iroquois Group
Dec 9 2014 // Erie, Pennsylvania-based Northwest Insurance Services, a division of Northwest Savings Bank, has joined agency network The Iroquois Group, according to Douglas Bert, president of Northwest Insurance Services. Northwest...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
2 AIG Carriers File for Redomestication
Dec 1 2014 // Two subsidiaries of the American International Group – Granite State Insurance Co. and New Hampshire Insurance Co. — recently filed for approval a plan of redomestication that would change their state of domicile...
2 AIG Subsidiaries File to Redomesticate From Pennsylvania to Illinois
Nov 24 2014 // Two subsidiaries of the American International Group — Granite State Insurance Company and New Hampshire Insurance Company — recently filed for approval a plan of redomestication that would change their state...
Montana’s Lindeen Elected NAIC President
Nov 20 2014 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected 2015 officers who will assume their duties on Jan. 1, 2015. President: Montana State Auditor and Commissioner of Securities and Insurance...
People – East
Nov 17 2014 // Robert L. Nash, president of the New Hampshire Association of Insurance Agents (NHAIA), has announced his retirement effective Dec. 31, 2014. Nash, president of NHAIA since 2001, has spent 43 years in association...
