Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania County Reaches $3M Strip-Search Settlement
Sep 16 2010 // Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over strip searches for nonviolent offenders. County solicitor Michael Wojcik tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the county agreed to...
Jury Sets Home Values in Pennsylvania Town Hit by Mine Fire
Sep 14 2010 // A Central Pennsylvania jury has set values for homes in a central Pennsylvania town decimated by a mine fire at values far below those sought by homeowners who are challenging the state’s condemnation of their...
People
Sep 6 2010 // Aon Consulting has named Shelly Blackstone as vice president of business development in its Richmond, Virginia office. In her new role, Blackstone will develop new products and services clients in Central and Southern...
Pennsylvania Ponders Increased Auto Liability Limits
Sep 3 2010 // A new bill introduced to the Pennsylvania senate would double the minimum liability amounts of auto insurance policies in the state. Current laws set minimum liability limits for bodily injury at $15,000 per person, and...
Judge: Pennsylvania School District Must Pay $260K in Spying Case
Sep 1 2010 // A federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family’s lawyer about $260,000. Lower Merion School District was ordered Monday to pay attorney Mark...
IA&B Groups Elects New Officers and Directors
Aug 27 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors. Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in...
Forfeiture Postponed in Ex-Pennsylvania Judge’s Fraud Case
Aug 27 2010 // A federal court forfeiture hearing has been postponed in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud, because the judge’s wife has hired a new attorney to try to prevent their...
Pennsylvania Indicts Agency Execs, Spouses in $7.5M Pyramid Scheme
Aug 25 2010 // Two Pennsylvania insurance agency execs and their spouses have been charged in what prosecutors say is a massive pyramid scheme that swindled local colleges, businesses and other organizations of more than $7.5...
Pennsylvania Jury Awards $6.8M in 2007 DUI Crash
Aug 23 2010 // An eastern Pennsylvania jury has awarded $6.8 million in damages to a woman who was injured in a 2007 drunken driving crash. A Chester County jury found a Coatesville restaurant liable for having continued to serve a man...
Forfeiture Set in Ex-Pennsylvania Judge’s Fraud Case
Aug 19 2010 // A federal judge has set a forfeiture hearing for a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge who is serving a 46-month prison sentence for insurance fraud. Michael Joyce, of Millcreek Township, was convicted of mail fraud...
Pennsylvania Man Arrested for Fabricating $1.4M Insurance Claim
Aug 17 2010 // Pennsylvania authorities have arrested a man who allegedly fabricated a $1.4 million insurance claim for storm damage to eight modular homes he owned in Pottstown. Attorney General Tom Corbett said that Kevin Paul Kollar...
Pennsylvania Commissioner Ario Steps Down
Aug 10 2010 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario has stepped down as the state’s top insurance regulator to take a position with the federal government as director of federal Office of Insurance Exchanges. Robert L....
Pennsylvania Mother Sues over Son’s Fatal Fire at Gas Pump
Aug 5 2010 // A woman sued Toyota Motor Corp., BP America Inc. and others, claiming their actions contributed to a March fire at a gasoline pump that killed her son. The wrongful-death and product liability action filed in Philadelphia...
Pennsylvania Sees Increase in Insurance Fraud
Aug 4 2010 // Pennsylvania saw a 22 percent increase in fraud complaints in the first half of the year, in a continuation of a trend that started two years ago, according to the Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority...
Pennsylvania Approves PMA Acquisition
Aug 4 2010 // Pennsylvania insurance regulators have given their OK to a planned acquisition of PMA Capital Cos. by Old Republic International Corp. Pennsylvania is the statutory regulator for PMA, which is based in Blue...
Pennsylvania May Use Traffic Cameras to Confirm Insurance
Aug 2 2010 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says a network of surveillance cameras could be used to identify uninsured drivers and help raise money for the state treasury. Rendell brought up the idea last week in urging state senators to...
Two Die in Pittsburgh-area Well Explosion
Jul 26 2010 // An oil storage tank at a natural gas well exploded Friday morning, killing two workers, leaving a third man remarkably uninjured and sparking a smoky well fire that smoldered for hours. A team of oil- and gas-well...
Pennsylvania Arsonist Pleads Guilty
Jul 23 2010 // A suburban Philadelphia man who authorities say tried to pass himself off as a firefighter has pleaded guilty to intentionally setting a fire at a diner. Twenty-one-year-old Mark Gilliam, of West Bradford, was sentenced...
Explosion at Pennsylvania Coke Plant Under Investigation
Jul 16 2010 // Investigators were looking for clues Thursday into what caused an oven at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh to explode, injuring 20 workers and starting a fire that burned for hours. The powerful blast in the coke oven at...
UPMC WorkPartners Offers Workers’ Compensation in Pennsylvania
Jul 7 2010 // UPMC WorkPartners, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has announced a new workers’ compensation product line offering dollar one coverage for Pennsylvania companies. “Health care reform is...
