Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Gas Tank Explosion Sparks Massive Fire at Pennsylvania Salvage Yard
Jul 17 2017 // Police say one employee has been injured after a gas tank explosion caused a massive fire at a Pennsylvania salvage yard. York Area Regional Police Detective Don Hopple Jr. says an employee was using a grinder to remove...
Pennsylvania Court Rules Section of State Workers’ Comp Act Unconstitutional
Jul 11 2017 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month found a section of the state Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) unconstitutional in a move that challenges the way Pennsylvania has assessed workplace injuries for the past...
Pennsylvania Doctor Surrenders to Authorities for Role in Insurance Fraud
Jul 10 2017 // A Pennsylvania doctor has surrendered to federal authorities to spend up to seven years in prison for his part in an insurance fraud scheme involving a defunct drug laboratory. Fifty-five-year-old John Johnson, of...
Business Moves
Jul 10 2017 // Cross Insurance, Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine-based subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., has acquired Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency, making it the 16th Massachusetts...
Pennsylvania a Leader in National Investigation into Sale of Opioids
Jul 10 2017 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is working with a bipartisan coalition of a majority of attorneys general from across the country in an ongoing investigation to evaluate whether manufacturers have engaged in...
Pennsylvania Introduces Legislation to Limit Surprise Balance Bills
Jul 10 2017 // Pennsylvania House Health and Insurance Committee Chairs Matt Baker and Tina Pickett have introduced legislation to protect health care consumers from surprise balance bills in a move Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner...
Pennsylvania Utility Worker Killed by Debris from Home Blast
Jul 7 2017 // A coroner says a utility worker was killed by flying debris when a Pennsylvania house exploded while he was responding to a reported natural gas leak. The National Transportation Safety Board continues to lead the...
Alliant Hires Pennsylvania’s Hill as Employee Benefits Group Expands in East
Jul 6 2017 // Alliant has hired Martin Hill as it continues to expand the presence of its Employee Benefits Group throughout the eastern U.S. As vice president, Hill, who is based in Pennsylvania, will leverage his background in...
NTSB Heading Investigation into Fatal Pennsylvania Natural Gas Explosion
Jul 5 2017 // The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation into an apparent natural gas explosion that destroyed a Pennsylvania home and killed a utility worker. The UGI Utilities worker was checking out a...
Burns & Wilcox Expands Footprint in Pennsylvania, Plans More Hires
Jun 29 2017 // Burns & Wilcox, a wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager, has increased its footprint in Pennsylvania with an office move and expansion for its Pittsburgh office to accommodate its growing team and...
Pennsylvania’s Penn Community Bank Hires Three
Jun 28 2017 // Penn Community Bank, a Bucks County, Penn.-based independent, mutual financial organization, has hired three professionals to its administrative, lending, and insurance teams. Peter R. Palumbo joins Penn Community Bank as...
Pennsylvania Introduces Legislation to Limit Surprise Balance Bills
Jun 22 2017 // Pennsylvania House Health and Insurance Committee Chairs Matt Baker and Tina Pickett have introduced legislation to protect health care consumers from surprise balance bills in a move Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner...
Governor Wolf Calls for Pennsylvania to Keep Fighting Fatal Overdoses
Jun 19 2017 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) statistics on fatal overdoses that showed an incerease in Pennsylvania again last year are a call for the state and federal government...
Penn. Insurance Commissioner to be Nominated for New Health, Human Services Agency
Jun 19 2017 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has announced his intention to nominate current Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller to serve as the inaugural secretary of the prospective unified Department of Health and Human...
Pennsylvania’s Venture Programs Promotes Mulhern
Jun 14 2017 // Venture Programs, a West Chester, Penn.-based insurance program administrator, has promoted Robert Mulhern to executive vice president of sales for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. In this new role, Mulhern is...
Pennsylvania’s Element Risk Management Acquires Rhodes Insurance Agency
Jun 2 2017 // West Chester, Penn.-based Element Risk Management has finalized the acquisition of Rhodes Insurance Agency Inc., also located in West Chester. The acquisition is expected to strengthen Element Risk’s footprint in...
Pennsylvania Insurance Chief Would Lead New Health, Human Services Agency
May 31 2017 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said last week that he would nominate his insurance commissioner, Teresa Miller, to lead a new agency he is proposing to oversee the public health and social and human services programs...
USI Acquires Employee Benefits Business from Pennsylvania’s The Hartman Group
May 30 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Hartman Employee Benefits Inc. (Hartman Employee Benefits) from The Hartman Group. Hartman Employee Benefits and its employees will remain at the current Williamsport and State...
Pennsylvania’s Lacher & Associates Acquires Brunner Insurance
May 23 2017 // Lacher & Associates of Souderton, Penn., has acquired Brunner Insurance of Richlandtown, Penn. Founded by Gus Brunner in 1960, Brunner Insurance specializes in providing for the insurance needs of families and...
Pennsylvania’s IA&B Announces New CEO Following Russell’s Retirement
May 22 2017 // Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B), a Mechanicsburg, Penn.-based professional trade association, will have a new president and CEO at the helm beginning in January 2018. Deputy CEO and Counsel Jason Ernest will take...
