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#1 Democrats Preserve Majority With Win in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Race
Nov 9 2023 // Democrat Dan McCaffery won an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court in Tuesday’s general election, preserving a strong Democratic majority on a panel that has produced several critical election-related...
#2 Pennsylvania Court Says State Police Must Show How They Monitor Social Media
Aug 25 2023 // Pennsylvania`s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state police can`t hide from the public its policy on how it monitors social media. Advocates for civil liberties cheered the decision. The law enforcement agency had...
#3 Employer Hosting Golf Outing Not Liable for Drunk Driver, Pennsylvania High Court Says
Aug 24 2023 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to extend the state’s liquor liability law to social hosts. The high court cited a half-century of precedent in upholding lower courts in a case where an employer hosting a...
#4 Study Suggests Links Between Fracking and Asthma, Lymphoma in Children
Aug 17 2023 // Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma...
#5 Pennsylvania High Court Rejects Damages Cap in Insurance Agency Poaching Case
Jul 26 2023 // A jury’s $2.8 million punitive damage award against an insurance agency and broker that tried to poach a competitor’s staff and book of business was not excessive even though it was more than 10 times the...
#6 Homeowners Had Issues with Hot Water Tank Before Deadly Blast in Pennsylvania
Aug 17 2023 // The owners of a home that exploded in western Pennsylvania last weekend were having issues with their hot water tank, authorities said, but the cause of the blast that killed five people — including two municipal...
#7 Pennsylvania Socialite, Convicted of Millions in Insurance Fraud, Dies at 71
Aug 4 2023 // The judge called it a “spectacular” fall from grace after a well-known Pennsylvania socialite was convicted in 2019 of more than $13 million in insurance fraud. Four years later, the Bucks County woman, Claire...
#8 New Jersey Brings Civil Suits Against 3 Gun Dealers Over Visibility, Security, Ghost Guns
Dec 14 2023 // New Jersey`s attorney general sued three firearms dealers Tuesday, alleging one illegally stored firearms that were visible from outside a store and that the two others tried to sell “ghost guns.” The suits...
#9 Four Dead, Another Missing After Blast Destroys 3 Structures in Pennsylvania
Aug 14 2023 // Four people were dead and a fifth was unaccounted for following a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others Saturday morning, authorities said. Allegheny...
#10 Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States
Dec 4 2023 // A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made,...
#11 Employee Impersonators Scam $2M from Pennsylvania Banks’ Customers, Officials Say
Aug 28 2023 // A theft ring stole nearly $2 million from bank customers in central Pennsylvania in an elaborate scheme in which the scammers, posing as bank employees, tricked people into giving up their account information, the attorney...
#12 Frederick Mutual Exiting Personal Lines; Signs Renewal Deal With Farmers of Salem
Nov 8 2023 // Frederick Mutual, which is exiting the personal lines market and focusing strictly on commercial lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, has reached a renewal rights agreement with another insurer for the bulk of...
#13 Philadelphia Archdiocese Settles Child Sex Abuse Claim for $3.5 Million
Aug 14 2023 // The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will pay $3.5 million to settle a civil case alleging a now-deceased priest sexually assaulted a teenage boy nearly two decades ago, and church officials knew of similar reports about the...
#14 Pennsylvania Borough Settles Lawsuits Over Shooting at High School for $11M
Oct 3 2023 // An $11 million settlement has been reached in federal lawsuits over police gunfire outside a high school football game near Philadelphia in 2021 that killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded others, an attorney for the girl`s...
#15 World Insurance Purchases Exchange Underwriters From Pennsylvania Bank
Dec 4 2023 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates has purchased the personal and commercial insurance agency Exchange Underwriters, Inc. from CB Financial Services, Inc., the holding company for Pennsylvania-based Community...
#16 States and Congress Wrestle With Cybersecurity at Water Utilities
Jan 3 2024 // The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its...
#17 Cause Still Unknown in Pennsylvania House Explosion That Killed 6
Aug 23 2023 // Three houses at the center of a recent explosion near Pittsburgh that killed six people will need to be torn down and 10 others are not currently inhabitable, county officials said over the weekend. The Aug. 12 blast in...
#18 Banned for 12 Years, Fracking Poised to Make a Comeback in Pennsylvania’s ‘Gasland’
Dec 22 2023 // A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the...
#19 Storm in Northeast Take 5 Lives; Causes Power Outages, Floods, Road Damage
Dec 21 2023 // Just days before the Christmas holiday, people across the northeastern U.S. were mopping up Tuesday after a major storm dumped torrential rains and brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to Maine, as some rivers in the...
#20 Supreme Court Opinion on Maritime Law Solidifies Insurer’s Choice-of-Law Clause
Mar 1 2024 // A dispute between an insurer and a yacht owner went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with a decision recently—the first of its kind on marine insurance in about 70 years—to clarify federal maritime law and state...
