Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pa. Hikes Maximum Weekly Workers’ Comp Benefit
Dec 29 2004 // Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry Stephen M. Schmerin announced increases in the maximum weekly benefits for new unemployment compensation beneficiaries and new workers compensation claimants, effective the...
Pa. Commissioner Closes Doors on Insurer
Dec 28 2004 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken has shut down the operations of Nation’s Hazard Insurance Agency, which has been doing business as Nation’s Hazard Insurance Company. The company is reportedly an...
Pa. Insurers File for Workers’ Comp Rate Cut
Dec 21 2004 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation rates will be going down next April if a loss cost filing submitted by the industry is approved. The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau has recommended that workers’ comp...
PA. GOV. SIGNS BILLS ON CROP, SURPLUS:
Dec 20 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell has signed into law several bills affecting the insurance industry, including one on crop insurance awareness and another on insurance company surplus contributions. Senate Bill 912,...
Pa. Notes New Contract with Lexington Insurance Co.
Dec 15 2004 // Pennsylvania General Services Secretary Don Cunningham recently announced a new insurance contract that slashes the Commonwealth’s premiums to $5.8 million from almost $10 million over a two-year period, while...
Pa. Governor Signs Bill to Help Doctors Pay for Malpractice Insurance
Dec 13 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed HB 1211 on Monday, the legislation that extends the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Fund abatement program for Pennsylvania health-care providers through...
NAIC Elects 2005 Officers
Dec 6 2004 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected four officers for 2005 during the NAIC Winter meeting in New Orleans, including a newly created position of president-elect to effectively serve a two-year...
Pa. Gov. Rendell Signs Bills on Crop Insurance, Insurance Company Surplus Rules
Dec 1 2004 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell has signed into law several bills affecting the insurance industry, including one on crop insurance awareness and another on insurance company surplus contributions. Senate Bill 912,...
Insurers Pleased with Pa. Legislative Session
Nov 26 2004 // The 2003-04 session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly adjourned in the early hours of Nov. 21 to conclude what the industry’s American Insurance Association (AIA) described as a successful and productive...
Pa. Renews Insurance Subsidy for Doctors
Nov 22 2004 // Subsidies to 30,000 doctors and health care providers who pay into a state-run program that provides catastrophic medical malpractice insurance would be extended for one more year under a bill passed unanimously by...
Pa. Bank Acquires Md.’s Russell Agency
Nov 22 2004 // ACNB Corporation, a bank holding corporation based in Gettysburg, Pa., has agred to acquire the Russell Insurance Group, Inc., a full-service insurance agency in Maryland. Based in Westminster, Md, with a satellite office...
Mutual Risk Management Reports Hancock Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Denied
Nov 22 2004 // Mutual Risk Management Ltd. (MRM) announced on Monday that the federal judge presiding over its multi-million dollar claim for tortious interference against John Hancock Life Insurance Company (Hancock) has denied...
Insurance Fraud Keeps Pa. Candidate Off Ballot
Oct 29 2004 // The state Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court ruling that keeps a candidate convicted of insurance fraud off the ballot for the state’s 51st Legislative District race. Michael J. Cavanagh was running as an...
Pa. AG Sues 16 Including Attorneys Over Alleged Widespread ‘Living Trust’ Sales Scam
Oct 29 2004 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert has filed a civil lawsuit in Commonwealth Court accusing 16 defendants of engaging in an elaborate statewide living trust sales scheme, that deceived older Pennsylvanians into...
PA. REVEALS MED MAL DETAILS:
Oct 25 2004 // Bucking tradition, a Lackawanna County, Pa., judge has ruled against a doctor who sought to keep the details of a medical malpractice settlement under wraps, saying that taxpayers have a right to know because they are...
LIBERTY BELL PAVILION AT PA. COLLEGE:
Oct 25 2004 // The glass-and-steel pavilion that held the Liberty Bell until last year is moving from Independence National Historical Park to an insurance college in the Philadelphia suburbs. The decision by the American College, which...
Pa. House Advances Med-Mal Subsidy
Oct 21 2004 // The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has approved a bill that would extend state subsidies for two years to more than 30,000 doctors and health care providers who pay into a state-run program that provides...
Pa. Gov. Unveils Letter to Congressional Delegation Regarding Flood Relief
Oct 21 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell this week released the following letter to the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation in reference to flood relief for the Commonwealth: Dear Senator Santorum: “As a follow up to our...
President Bush Tackles Medical Liability Reform During Pa. Visit
Oct 21 2004 // President George W. Bush used a visit to the United Sports Training Center in Downingtown, Pennsylvania on Thursday to address the matters of medical liability reform and health care. Joined by his daughter on the campaign...
Pa. Insurers Cleared of Murder Spree Claims
Oct 19 2004 // Two insurance companies are not obligated to pay claims for a shooting rampage that left five people dead and another critically injured four years ago near Pittsburgh, a Superior Court panel recently ruled. The ruling...
