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School Transit Company, Owner Charged with Insurance Fraud in Pennsylvania
Dec 27 2016 // A school transit company with a $2.4 million contract to provide rides to special needs students in a Pittsburgh-area charter school network has been charged with failing to properly insure some vehicles and hiring drivers...
Ex-Nanny for Penguins Player in Pennsylvania Gets 5-Year Federal Sentence
Dec 22 2016 // The former nanny of Pittsburgh Penguins player Chris Kunitz was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for setting fire to her rental residence and then filing fraudulent insurance claims for the contents. The...
Court Order Can’t Stop Stray Golf Balls from Hitting Pennsylvania Home
Dec 20 2016 // A couple who live next to a Pennsylvania golf course says errant balls are still hitting their property despite a previous court order. The (Allentown) Morning Call says Jerzy and Halina Wisniewski returned to Northampton...
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Advises Preparation for Winter Weather
Dec 19 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller has advised consumers to plan ahead and review their homeowners and auto insurance policies as winter weather conditions like snow, sleet and ice become more...
Rapid Repairs Sought After Pennsylvania Creek Flood Wall Section Collapse
Dec 14 2016 // Authorities city say they will seek funding for rapid repairs following the collapse of a section of a creek flood wall in a northeastern Pennsylvania city. Wilkes-Barre city administrator Ted Wampole says a 40-foot...
Appeals Court Allows Suit Against Firm in Pennsylvania Flood Deaths
Dec 13 2016 // An appeals court has cleared the way for refiling of a lawsuit against an engineering firm in the deaths of four people killed in flash flooding in Pittsburgh more than five years ago. Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. earlier...
Feds Charge 18 People in Pennsylvania Prescription Fraud
Dec 12 2016 // Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh have charged 18 people in 13 separate indictments with fraudulently obtaining prescription painkillers from government insurance programs then re-selling them on the street. Most of the...
NAIC Taps Former Pennsylvania Commissioner, Transamerica Exec Consedine as CEO
Dec 12 2016 // Ten months after its last chief executive officer departed, the national organization of state insurance regulators has named former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael F. Consedine as its new CEO. Consedine will...
Reinsurer Beechwood Seeks Buyer in Wake of Backlash Over Platinum Ties: Reuters
Dec 11 2016 // The Beechwood group of reinsurance companies is in talks to sell most or all of itself after a backlash from some clients due to its relationship with troubled hedge fund manager Platinum Partners, according to a person...
Uber Wants Pennsylvania to Delay Rules for Driverless Cars
Dec 9 2016 // Ride-sharing company Uber wants the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to delay policy recommendations that govern the testing of driverless cars. Uber, which has been testing the driverless cars in Pittsburgh for...
Private Flood Insurance a Focus for Pennsylvania Insurance Department in 2017
Dec 8 2016 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has a plan to continue furthering its initiatives within the private flood insurance market in 2017. This comes after the North Central part of the state of Pennsylvania saw flooding...
Pennsylvania’s Odell Studner Hires Pittounicos as Director of Personal Lines
Dec 8 2016 // Odell Studner, a King of Prussia, Penn., based provider of risk consulting and insurance brokerage services to middle market companies, has hired Linda Pittounicos as director of personal lines. In this role, Pittounicos...
County Coroner in Pennsylvania Sounds Alarm After Cluster of Heroin ODs
Dec 6 2016 // York County’s coroner is sounding the alarm after reporting three suspected heroin overdoses in a span of five hours. Coroner Pamela Gay took to Twitter to report the suspect overdoses, writing, “If you or a...
2016 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed: Demotech
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
National Study Finds Pennsylvania Improved in State Workers’ Comp Costs
Nov 30 2016 // A national study conducted by The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services shows Pennsylvania has improved its standing among states under Governor Tom Wolf’s administration in workers’ compensation...
Ex-Fire Company Treasurer in Pennsylvania Charged with Stealing Nearly $400K
Nov 21 2016 // A former Pennsylvania volunteer fire company treasurer who received a $400 annual stipend has been accused of stealing nearly 1,000 times that much from the organization. Fifty-one-year-old Agnes Patterson, of Hellertown,...
Woman Convicted in $7M Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Scheme Charged Anew
Nov 21 2016 // A woman who spent more than seven years in prison for a $7 million insurance fraud and the unrelated death of a patient at her now-defunct Pennsylvania nursing home is in trouble with the law again. This time, the...
Pennsylvania Files Consumer Protection Lawsuit Against Nursing Home Company
Nov 9 2016 // A company with 11 skilled nursing homes in Pennsylvania doesn’t have enough staff to provide basic patient care – and faked it when state Department of Health inspectors were around, the state attorney general...
Pennsylvania’s Henderson Brothers Hires Brodsky
Nov 3 2016 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Penn., based independent broker, has hired Braden Brodsky as a senior financial analyst in the employee benefits department. In this role, Brodsky will use his three years of industry...
Pennsylvania Drivers Third Most Likely in U.S. to Have Deer-Related Accidents
Nov 3 2016 // Figures compiled by State Farm Insurance show that Pennsylvania drivers are the third most likely of motorists in any state to have a collision with a deer, having a one in 67 chance of a deer-related accident. With this...
