Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Arkansas Suspends Lincoln General Insurance Company
Apr 1 2010 // Arkansas regulators have suspended the Certificate of Authority of Lincoln General Insurance Company, domiciled in Pennsylvania, due to the company’s “financially hazardous condition.” In a March 24...
John Yurconic Agency Signs 10-Year Lease at Pennsylvania Mall
Mar 31 2010 // John Yurconic Agency Insurance agency has signed a 10-year lease extension for its office inside the 25th Street Shopping Center in Easton, Pennsylvania. The agency relocated to the western side of the shopping center,...
Pennsylvania Electrical Worker Hospitalized After Blast
Mar 30 2010 // A northeastern Pennsylvania utility worker has been burned in an underground fire that occurred while he worked to restore service during a power outage. Officials from PPL say the unidentified man was hospitalized in...
Pennsylvania Highway Deaths Decline to Record Low
Mar 17 2010 // The number of deaths on Pennsylvania’s highways has plunged to its lowest level since Model Ts still chugged along the roads of the commonwealth, and officials are crediting years of safety programs but cannot rule...
West Pennsylvania Couple Sues Target over Toy Box Injury
Mar 11 2010 // A suburban Pittsburgh couple is suing Target, claiming their daughter sustained a brain injury when a toy box lid fell on her. Eric and Laura Surman, of Cranberry, claim 2-year-old Camryn Surman had her air supply cut off...
Tractor-Trailer Cargo Thefts on the Rise in Pennsylvania
Mar 4 2010 // Authorities say thieves are increasingly targeting tractor-trailers in Pennsylvania to steal their loads of electronics, food or drink, later abandoning the trailers at the side of the road. Sometimes the culprits steal...
‘Snowed-In’ Ohio Man Charged in Western Pennsylvania Arson
Feb 25 2010 // An Ohio man is charged with setting fire to a western Pennsylvania mobile home he used to rent after police say heavy snows kept him from driving away. Thirty-three-year-old Robert Lee Armstrong, of Warren, Ohio, is...
17 People in Charged in Pennsylvania Insurance Scam
Feb 22 2010 // The U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI in Philadelphia say 17 people are facing charges of mail fraud in what authorities call a scheme that defrauded insurance companies of more than $630,000. Authorities on Friday...
Heavy Snows Plaguing Roofs in Western Pennsylvania County
Feb 17 2010 // Fire trucks and sheep are the latest things to be endangered by roofs sagging or collapsing beneath heavy snows in one western Pennsylvania county. The Amwell Township Volunteer Fire Department on Monday had to move $1...
Cause of Pennsylvania Feed Storage Building Blaze Probed
Feb 16 2010 // Fire investigators will start today to try to find out what sparked a blaze that destroyed a feed storage building at the Cumberland Valley Business Park in central Pennsylvania. Firefighters from the nearby Letterkenny...
Collapse Concerns Grow as Snowstorm Slams Eastern States
Feb 8 2010 // Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. were particularly battered by a weekend snowstorm that caused massive power outages and resulted in moderate structural damage to areas in the region. At least two deaths were...
Police: Pennsylvania Arsonist Leaves Trail of Playing Cards
Feb 5 2010 // Police say a serial arsonist is leaving behind playing cards and taunting notes for investigators at the scenes of a string of car fires in central Pennsylvania. Police in York County say a trail of playing cards have been...
USG Adds Two to Pennsylvania Staff
Feb 2 2010 // USG Insurance Services Inc, a national wholesale broker of commercial insurance, has promoted Lucas Bacon to branch manager of its Canonsburg, Pennsylvania office. Bacon joined USG’s team in 2003, and was most...
Pennsylvania Sting Nets 24 Arrests for Auto Insurance Fraud
Jan 10 2010 // Twenty-four people, including 17 New York residents, six from New Jersey and one Pennsylvania resident, have been charged with insurance fraud and other related offenses after falsely claiming to be Pennsylvania residents...
Pennsylvania Insurance Agents Accused of Stealing $1M
Jan 8 2010 // Two Pennsylvania insurance agents accused of stealing more than $1 million that was supposed to pay for workers’ compensation and liability insurance for six Berks County public school districts, have been arrested...
Pennsylvania Zinc Plant Settles Pollution Lawsuit
Jan 4 2010 // The largest zinc producer in the United States and an environmental group have settled a federal lawsuit claiming the company polluted the Ohio River. Under the settlement with Clean Water Action, Horsehead Holding Corp....
Pennsylvania Sting Nets 24 Arrests for Auto Insurance Fraud
Dec 30 2009 // Twenty-four people, including 17 New York residents, six from New Jersey and one Pennsylvania resident, have been charged with insurance fraud and other related offenses after falsely claiming to be Pennsylvania residents...
Experimenting Workers Start Pennsylvania Candy Company Fire
Dec 21 2009 // Experimenting workers at a western Pennsylvania candy company started a fire that left one employee injured. The blaze broke out Thursday evening at the New Castle Candy Company. Fire officials say employees were...
$4.7M Settlement in Pennsylvania Convention Center Collapse
Dec 21 2009 // The authority that operates Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center is getting $4.78 million from firms to settle claims over a floor collapse. In February 2007, a concrete slab crashed to a walkway about 30...
2009 P/C Insurance Mergers, Acquisitions Large and Small
Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....
