Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Altman Says Private Market Flood Insurance Has Grown in Pennsylvania
Feb 27 2019 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman said the number of private market flood insurance policies in Pennsylvania jumped 72 percent from February 2018, as she continued urging homeowners, business owners and...
Utility Crews Work to Restore Power to Thousands in Pennsylvania After Winds
Feb 27 2019 // Utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of Pennsylvania customers following high winds that roared through the commonwealth, knocking down trees and power lines. PPL Electric reported more than 20,000...
High Winds Down Trees, Power Lines, Cut Power to Thousands in Pennsylvania
Feb 26 2019 // High winds have been bringing down trees and power lines in western Pennsylvania, leaving tens of thousands of utility customers without power. The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning covering many areas of...
Pennsylvania Woman’s Son Pleads Guilty, Gets Probation in Mansion Fire Fraud Case
Feb 19 2019 // The son of a suburban Philadelphia woman convicted in a multi-million-dollar insurance fraud case following fires at her Bucks County property has been sentenced to four years’ probation. Forty-seven-year-old Carl...
Pennsylvania’s Ascinsure Specialty Risk Promotes Keinard
Feb 14 2019 // Ascinsure Specialty Risk LLC has promoted Steve Keinard as its assistant vice president and underwriting manager. Within this new role, Keinard will provide leadership, support and guidance to Ascinsure’s...
Brown & Brown Metro Acquires Pennsylvania’s Smith Insurance Associates
Feb 12 2019 // Brown & Brown Metro LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Smith Insurance Associates Inc. Smith Insurance is a family owned agency with more than 35 years of...
Pennsylvania Woman Convicted of Six Counts in Insurance Fraud Case
Feb 11 2019 // A suburban Philadelphia woman has been convicted of most charges in a multi-million-dollar insurance fraud case following fires at her Bucks County property. Jurors in Bucks County deliberated for more than four hours...
U-Haul, Former Manager Plead Guilty After Food Truck Blast in Pennsylvania
Feb 1 2019 // A U-Haul subsidiary and the former general manager of one of its Philadelphia stores have pleaded guilty after a food truck explosion that killed a woman and her teenage daughter. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the...
Pennsylvania’s Largest Workers’ Comp Insurer Files Plan to Correct Charges
Jan 31 2019 // Pennsylvania’s State Workers Insurance Fund (SWIF), the largest writer of workers’ comp insurance in Pennsylvania, has filed a plan to retroactively correct charges to employers for their workers’...
Natural Gas Service Mostly Back for Hundreds in Pennsylvania
Jan 8 2019 // Officials say service has mostly been restored to hundreds of Pennsylvania utility customers who had their natural gas service temporarily shut off. Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania shut off service Saturday to about 1,700...
Columbia Gas Halts Service to About 1,700 in Pennsylvania
Jan 7 2019 // Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania says it’s in the process of shutting off service to about 1,700 customers in Washington County. The utility company said Saturday that the decision to suspend service has been made...
East States See Health, Flood Coverages as Key in 2019 with Insurtech, Recruitment Raising Concerns
Jan 7 2019 // From big data and blockchain to autonomous vehicles and new technology that isn’t yet on the radar, “change is inevitable” for the insurance industry in 2019. “Insurance companies, insurance...
GMG Insurance Agency Acquires Pennsylvania’s Superior Benefits Plans
Jan 4 2019 // GMG Insurance Agency (GMG), an independent insurance and risk management agency offering nationwide coverage and services, has acquired Superior Benefits Plans LLC, an independent employee benefits insurance brokerage...
Pennsylvania Judge to Rule on Suit Over Sideline Death at Football Game
Jan 3 2019 // A judge in Pennsylvania is considering whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the widow of a high school football team volunteer who died in 2016 after a player ran into him. Attorneys for the Valley View School District...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Pennsylvania’s Preston-Patterson Co.
Dec 31 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Conshohocken, Penn.-based Preston-Patterson Co. Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1947, Preston-Patterson is a retail property and casualty insurance...
Insurance Journal East’s Top Stories for 2018: Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, Auto Insurance, Mass. Gas Explosions
Dec 31 2018 // As Insurance Journal looks back on the most popular stories of 2018, its readers in the East region showed interest in a variety of topics from auto insurance to the September gas explosions in Massachusetts to state...
Judge Again Rules Against $200M Raid on Pennsylvania Insurance Surplus
Dec 21 2018 // A federal judge is again ruling against Pennsylvania legislation that would take at least $200 million from a state-chartered medical malpractice insurer of last resort. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner said the...
Pennsylvania Says Uber Can Resume Self-Driving Car Testing on Public Roads
Dec 19 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc received approval from Pennsylvania to resume self-driving car testing on public roads this week, state records show, nine months after it suspended the program following a deadly accident in...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Approves Mid-Year Workers’ Comp Filings
Dec 17 2018 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved two mid-year workers’ compensation loss cost filings, effective January 1, 2019. The fillings are from the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB), an...
Penn. High Court Rules Employer Has Duty to Safeguard Employees’ Personal Info
Dec 17 2018 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that an employer has a legal duty to use reasonable care in safeguarding its employees’ sensitive personal information stored on an internet-accessible computer. This vacates...
