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2013 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Nov 18 2013 // State Specialists are often an independent agent’s most reliable and consistent market. These companies are focused on a specific geographic area, understand it and consistently strive to serve it. The Demotech...
WCRI: Workers’ Compensation Costs Per Claim Moderating in Pennsylvania
Nov 14 2013 // The costs per workers’ compensation claim in Pennsylvania are moderating, following years of steady growth in previous years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The...
IA&B Service Group Announces New Officers in Del., Md., Penn.
Nov 11 2013 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been...
USG Insurance Appoints Associate Producer in Pennsylvania
Nov 8 2013 // Kelly Morton USG Insurance Services Inc. announced the expansion of their Pennsylvania operations with the addition of Kelly Morton as an associate producer/broker based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Morton has over 20...
U.S. Sen. Toomey Cites Pennsylvania Residents Losing Health Insurance
Nov 8 2013 // U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said thousands of Pennsylvanians are contacting his office with complaints about losing their health insurance because of the federal overhaul, while state insurance regulators put the number of people...
Pennsylvania Diocese: Birth Control Mandate ‘Historic’
Nov 7 2013 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh say the federal government is trying to remove First Amendment religious protections from church-related schools and charities “for the first time in history” by...
Penn. Insurance Department Offers Simple Tips to Prevent Home Fires
Nov 6 2013 // Deaths from fires and burns are the third-leading cause of fatal home injuries, and Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine offered five simple ways to prevent home fires. “Often victims in house fires...
AssuredPartners Acquires Eastern Insurance Agency in Pennsylvania
Nov 1 2013 // AssuredPartners Inc., through its subsidiary AssuredPartners of New Jersey, acquired Eastern Insurance Acquisition Agency (D/B/A Eastern Insurance Group) in Pennsylvania. Eastern Insurance Group specializes in commercial...
In Pennsylvania, New Legislation Allows Doctors to Apologize
Oct 25 2013 // A decade after a back-and-forth legislative battle that saw both doctors and lawyers visiting the state capitol by the hundreds – perhaps thousands – to argue for or against tort reforms that led to state law...
Complaints Mounting Over Pennsylvania’s Online Workers’ Comp System
Oct 22 2013 // Complaints are mounting over Pennsylvania’s new, online system for filing appeals in workers’ compensation cases, with critics saying it often cannot upload documents and sometimes makes paperwork disappear. A...
Pennsylvania Borough Insurer Pays $225K to Stunned Cuffed Man
Oct 9 2013 // A western Pennsylvania man who claimed a police officer used a stun gun on him while he was handcuffed was paid $225,000 by a borough’s insurance carrier to settle a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in July on behalf...
Philadelphia Insurance Names SVP of Field Underwriting in Pennsylvania
Oct 7 2013 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies announced the hiring of Kurt D. Hines as senior vice president of field underwriting. He is based in the company’s Bala Cynwyd, Penn., headquarters. Kurt D. Hines Hines will be...
Ex-Penn State Coach Sandusky’s Conviction Upheld on Appeal
Oct 2 2013 // Former Pennsylvania State University Coach Jerry Sandusky, who was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing boys, failed to persuade a state appeals court that he deserved a new trial. Sandusky said...
Allstate Plans to Hire New Agents in Penn., Conn., Maine, R.I., N.H.
Sep 30 2013 // Allstate Insurance Company announced last week that the company is planning to hire new insurance agents in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The insurer would hire approximately 455 new...
ProAssurance to Acquire Workers’ Comp Insurer Eastern Holdings
Sep 24 2013 // Medical professional liability insurer ProAssurance Corp. said it is acquiring monoline workers’ compensation insurer Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. in an all-cash transaction that values Eastern at $24.50 per...
Pennsylvania’s Eichelberger Brings Business Skills to Legislature
Sep 23 2013 // Pennsylvania State Sen. John H. Eichelberger Jr. (R – Blair) is an insurance professional who has achieved success in two highly competitive worlds: insurance agency business and legislative politics. Eichelberger...
Local Firms in Pennsylvania Take ‘Wait and See’ Approach to Health Care Law
Sep 21 2013 // The mandate that large employers provide health care coverage to their employees has been put off until 2015, but some businesses have already started changing health care benefits. Still, many local employers in Bucks...
Veterans’ Medical Malpractice Costs Rising As More Soldiers Seek Care
Sep 13 2013 // Christopher Ellison went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007. What should have been a routine dentist visit left him permanently incapacitated. The $17.5 million Ellison and...
Insurance Pros in Politics: Insurance Veterans Elect to Also Work in State Legislatures
Sep 10 2013 // Running a successful insurance agency business is tough enough by itself but some insurance pros are taking it one step further. They manage to juggle multiple careers in insurance and politics. Pennsylvania State Sen....
WCRI Study of Penn., Md. Finds Vicodin Much Costlier When Dispensed by Doctors
Sep 9 2013 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) says the average price paid for physician-dispensed Vicodin — a commonly dispensed narcotic pain medication in Pennsylvania and Maryland — was...
