Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
PENN. HALTS ROLE IN AGENTS’ FINGERPRINT AGENCY
Mar 20 2006 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken announced she will stop sending insurance agents’ fingerprints to a national repository, just days after a bill backed by the state’s independent agents that...
Citizens Financial banks on ‘not your typical’ insurance agency sale
Mar 20 2006 // Not Your Typical Bank,” the slogan used by Citizens Financial Group in its consumer ads, seems to apply to the bank’s latest move, the selling off of its respected insurance agencies. It is not a typical sale....
Pa. Gov. Rendell Vetoes Homebuilder Damages Cap Deemed Unconstitutional
Mar 19 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has vetoed legislation that would have capped the damage award homebuilders must pay for faulty work and regulated the ability of property owners to sue. The legislation had been deemed...
Dozens of Firetrucks to be Sold at Pennsylvania Auction
Mar 14 2006 // Dozens of firetrucks collected over more than three decades by a local businessman will be auctioned this week in Denbo, Pa., a sale that has attracted national and international interest. “This will be the...
Pa. Pair Try to Dig Out of Fraud Charges Involving Snowmobile
Mar 3 2006 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett reported that criminal charges were filed against two Solanco High School teachers accused of deceiving State Farm in a fraudulent insurance claim for less than $800 to repair a...
Citizens Bank Selling Insurance Agencies to Hub International
Mar 1 2006 // Citizens Financial Group is selling its considerable insurance agency businesses to Hub International Limited in a deal that includes a strategic alliance between the two for future sales and marketing. Hub will purchase...
Pa. Shuts Down Pro-Tel Prescription Drug Plan Sale to Seniors
Feb 28 2006 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that a Pennsylvania business will refund consumers, pay fines and get out of the health care business following claims that it used deceptive marketing tactics to lure...
Pennsylvania Court Rules Parents’ Homeowners Policy Covers Shootings by Son
Feb 23 2006 // An insurance company might have to pay $1.8 million if the lone survivor and relatives of five other victims of a shooting spree win lawsuits against the attacker’s parents, the Pennsylvania Superior Court...
Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority Notes Top 10 Pa. Fraud Cases of 2005
Feb 22 2006 // An antiques dealer, an auto mechanic and even a couple of insurance agents are among the dishonored on 2005’s Top Ten Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud cases list, released this week by the Insurance Fraud Prevention...
Pa. AG Charges Former Prison Guard and SEPTA Worker with Fraud
Feb 16 2006 // A former SCI Chester Corrections Officer and former SEPTA employee waived his preliminary hearing Monday on charges that he repeatedly forged the signatures of his doctor and a SEPTA Employer Records Clerk, to illegally...
Unhappy Valentine: Wedding’s Off, Pa. Law Says Ring to be Returned
Feb 15 2006 // If the wedding is off, the engagement ring must be returned, state law says, but a broken engagement and ensuing legal battle over a $35,000 ring may change that. Mario Mele, a former Montgomery County commissioner who...
Pennsylvania Again Cuts Workers’ Comp Rates, This Time by 8.5%
Feb 14 2006 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell touted the decision cutting workers’ compensation insurance rates, a decision he said will save the state’s employers approximately $100 million on their 2006...
Insurance Executive Resigns with Eye on Philly Mayoral Race
Jan 24 2006 // The millionaire chief executive of UnitedHealthcare Pennsylvania is resigning to focus on a potential run for mayor. Tom Knox, once a deputy mayor in former Mayor Ed Rendell’s administration, raised eyebrows in...
News Currents
Jan 22 2006 // From New England to Virginia, courts and juries made insurance headlines Up and down the East coast, much of the most interesting local insurance news in 2005 took place in the courts of law and not in the court of public...
Pa. Med-Mal ‘Crisis’ Over But Doctors Still Worried About Costs and Access
Jan 3 2006 // Five years after the latest medical malpractice insurance “crisis” began to roil Pennsylvania and other parts of the nation, some say a balance has returned to the system here. But doctors and hospital...
Pa. Insurers Propose 8.5% Decrease for Workers’ Comp
Jan 2 2006 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation insurers are recommending a decrease in what they charge to cover loss costs. The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau has filed for an overall 8.58 percent decrease in...
Pennsylvania renews medical premium subsidy
Jan 2 2006 // About 30,000 Pennsylvania health care providers would receive a state subsidy for a fourth straight year to help them pay their medical malpractice insurance bills, under legislation signed by Gov. Ed Rendell. The...
Pennsylvania renews medical premium subsidy
Jan 1 2006 // About 30,000 Pennsylvania health care providers would receive a state subsidy for a fourth straight year to help them pay their medical malpractice insurance bills, under legislation signed by Gov. Ed Rendell. The...
From New England to Virginia, Courts Made Insurance Headlines in 2005
Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light. But much of the...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Adds Pa. Brokerage to Roster
Dec 29 2005 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported the acquisition of Brokerage Professionals Inc. of Media, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1982, Brokerage Professionals Inc. (bpi) is a...
