Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania Releases List of Workers’ Compensation Scofflaws
Aug 10 2022 // Pennsylvania officials have identified three dozen employers that are currently not carrying workers’ compensation insurance as required by state law. Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry (L&I)...
Pipeline Agrees to Pollution Remediation, Watersheds Restoration in Pennsylvania
Aug 9 2022 // The developer of a major pipeline system that connects the Marcellus Shale gas field in western Pennsylvania to an export terminal near Philadelphia pleaded no contest Friday to criminal charges that it systematically...
Pennsylvania Store Chain Wawa to Pay $8M Over 2019 Payment Cards Breach
Aug 2 2022 // A Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain will pay $8 million to several states over a 2019 data breach that involved some 34 million payment cards, authorities announced Tuesday. The Pennsylvania attorney...
Pennsylvania’s Auto Insurance ‘Regular Use’ Exclusion Faces State High Court Scrutiny
Jul 27 2022 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that could limit application of the “regular use exclusion” in auto insurance policies. The state’s high court has agreed to review a Superior...
Pennsylvania Increases Penalties for Repeat Drunk Drivers
Jul 19 2022 // Gov. Tom Wolf signed legislation Monday to increase penalties for motorists who have multiple driving-under- the influence (DUI convictions to try to end what critics call Pennsylvania’s “revolving door”...
Pennsylvania Republican Campaigns on False Nursing Home COVID Claim
Jul 7 2022 // Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, has made a campaign staple out of the allegation that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing...
Pennsylvania Audit Finds Issues With 15 of 43 Volunteer Firefighters’ Associations
Jun 9 2022 // Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor released audit reports for 43 volunteer firefighters’ relief associations (VFRAs) in 30 Pennsylvania counties. The reports show 28 with no adverse findings and 15 with a...
Liability of State Police, Casino/Track Owners at Issue in Pennsylvania Murder Case
Jun 7 2022 // On November 24, 2018, Alicia E. Shaffer Stalheim, 25, was murdered by her jealous boyfriend, Luis Rodriguez, seven months after Rodriguez learned Stalheim and her children met for ice cream with another man. Stalheim,...
People Moves: MEMIC Names White Underwriter for Pennsylvania; World Insurance Hires Robb as General Counsel; S&S Adds Loss Control Specialist White
May 27 2022 // MEMIC Hires White as Senior Underwriter in Pennsylvania Workers’ compensation insurer MEMIC Group has hired Curtis White as senior production underwriter, responsible for renewals and new business in...
Bird Flu Forces Free-Range Chickens Into Lockdown, From Pennsylvania to France
May 3 2022 // Organic and free-range chickens have been thrown into lockdown. Egg-laying hens that normally have access to the outdoors can no longer roam as freely or feel the sun on their beaks as some U.S. and European farmers...
People Moves: SAN Group Welcomes Fornari; Alliant Hires Aon’s Hiller in Pennsylvania
Apr 14 2022 // SAN Group Names Fornari as Regional Vice President for Massachusetts Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group, the alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, welcomed its recent hire Andrew Fornari, who has...
Pennsylvania Approves 6.25% Workers’ Compensation Cost Cut
Apr 7 2022 // Workers’ compensation costs for employers in Pennsylvania are going down for the sixth straight year. Acting Insurance Commissioner Michael Humphreys approved a loss-cost filing, including a 6.25% reduction in loss...
Parents of Teen Shot on Bridge Sue Pennsylvania State Police, District Attorney
Apr 1 2022 // The parents of a 19-year-old man who was killed by state troopers on an overpass in the Pocono Mountains filed a wrongful-death suit Wednesday, saying video that Pennsylvania State Police initially tried to keep secret...
Business Moves
Mar 7 2022 // National Travelers, Trōv Trōv, an early insurtech that started life as a creator of micro-duration policies and evolved into an embedded insurance specialist, announced The Travelers Companies will acquire its technology...
Element Risk Management Acquires Pennsylvania’s Ross Insurance
Mar 4 2022 // Element Risk Management has acquired Ross Insurance, a personal and commercial lines agency located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ross Insurance was founded in 1960 by Bill Ross...
Pennsylvania Adopts Exception to Ban on an Insurer Subrogating Against an Insured
Feb 24 2022 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sided with an insurer seeking subrogation for payments it made to an injured worker before it was determined the insurer was not obligated to make the payments. The state’s highest...
Risk Strategies Acquires Joyce Insurance in Pennsylvania
Feb 17 2022 // Specialty insurance brokerage Risk Strategies has acquired the retail brokerage operations and assets of Joyce Insurance Group and associated businesses in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The acquisition of Joyce Insurance Group...
Altman Leaving Pennsylvania Insurance Post to Lead California Health Plan
Feb 16 2022 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman will resign her position Feb. 25. Altman has accepted a position as chief executive officer of Covered California, that state’s...
Hilb Group Acquires Pennsylvania’s Wharton Surety Consultants
Feb 10 2022 // The Hilb Group announced that it has acquired Wharton Surety Consultants, expanding its growing presence in the Philadelphia area. The transaction became effective December 31, 2021. Based in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Wharton...
States Eligible for $725M a Year to Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mines
Feb 8 2022 // The Biden administration on Monday said $725 million in federal funds would be available to states this year to clean up abandoned coal mines, one of several initiatives aimed at reducing pollution from decades of fossil...
