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Pennsylvania Whistleblower Claims Hospital Medicare Fraud
Jan 24 2012 // A former northwestern Pennsylvania cardiologist says in a lawsuit a hospital improperly paid doctors who performed unnecessary procedures on patients, including two who died. The suit filed this month by Dr. Tullio...
Report: Liberty Mutual Failed in Bid to Buy Harleysville
Jan 23 2012 // It turns out there was another player in last year’s merger deal between Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. According to a news report, Liberty Mutual also made an offer last...
Key Risk Expands to Pennsylvania, Opens Harrisburg Office
Jan 19 2012 // Key Risk, a workers’ comp insurer and a member company of W. R. Berkley Corp., said it is expanding operations to Pennsylvania and is opening a new office in Harrisburg. Key Risk focuses solely on providing...
Swett & Crawford Appoints Transportation Underwriter in Pennsylvania
Jan 18 2012 // Wholesale intermediary Swett & Crawford appointed David Pohle as Media, Penn.-based transportation underwriter for its transportation practice group. David Pohle Pohle joins Swett & Crawford after eight years at...
Company Cautions Against Linking Well, Ohio Quakes
Jan 13 2012 // Boos, applause and the occasional outburst marked a gathering of about 500 Ohio residents seeking explanations for a series of earthquakes that has hit their area since deep injection drilling came to town. At a news...
Report: Liberty Mutual Failed in Bid to Buy Harleysville
Jan 6 2012 // It turns out there was another player in last year’s merger deal between Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. According to a news report, Liberty Mutual also made an offer last...
Penn. Senator Asks Flood Insurers to Quickly Process Remaining Claims
Dec 29 2011 // U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) is asking flood insurance companies to quickly process remaining claims from Irene and Lee. He says some 25 percent of the claims in Pennsylvania are still not...
Pennsylvania’s Rhyming Justice Pens Insurance Fraud Opinion
Dec 27 2011 // This judge’s rulings, for better or worse, are poetic justice because they’re in verse. A state Supreme Court justice known for opinions written in rhyme has done it again, producing six pages of verse last...
Insurer for Sandusky Charity in Pennsylvania Argues Over Payouts
Dec 27 2011 // An insurance company for a charity founded by Jerry Sandusky argued in a federal complaint last Friday that it should not have to pay legal expenses or claims for the former Penn State assistant football coach now accused...
Pennsylvania Gets $420M in Disaster Aid, NFIP Settled $196M in Claims
Dec 21 2011 // The federal government has approved $420 million in disaster aid for Pennsylvanians hit by the one-two punch of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Updated figures from federal and state emergency management officials...
Pennsylvanians Face Sinkhole Threat, But Many Lack Insurance Coverage
Dec 19 2011 // A U.S. senator is enlisting the help of Pennsylvania insurance commissioner to help protect the Keystone State’s homeowners from sinkhole damages. In a letter to Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine,...
Pennsylvania Receives $349 Million in Disaster Aid So Far
Dec 5 2011 // Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency say nearly $349 million in disaster aid has been approved so far for Pennsylvania residents affected by two recent storms. According to updated figures released by...
Whistleblower Laws, Lucrative for Some States, Stall in Others
Nov 28 2011 // For many states, a law intended to root out corruption also has been good for the bottom line. Over the last decade, more than 20 states have passed a version of the federal anti-corruption law known as the False Claims...
25 Sickened by Carbon Monoxide at Pennsylvania Tractor Pull Event
Nov 22 2011 // Fire officials had to close down a tractor pull event at the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex after carbon monoxide sickened more than two dozen people. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reports the Mid-Atlantic Antique Tractor...
Pennsylvania, Delaware Agent Groups Part Ways With PIA National
Nov 21 2011 // Two independent agent associations in the northeast said in November they will discontinue their affiliations with the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA). The Insurance Agents & Brokers of...
The Demotech Company Classification System Reveals State Specialist Property/Casualty Insurers
Nov 7 2011 // Company Name State of Speciality 2010 TOTAL DPW Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 596,191 Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 575,100 SAIF Corporation OR 327,373 St. Johns Insurance Co. Inc. FL 257,106 Brickstreet...
Pennsylvania Agency Owners Indicted for Fraud
Nov 4 2011 // Penn. Agency Owners Indicted Insurance agency owners from Pennsylvania were indicted this week with 13 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Bruce and Irene Gardner, of Richboro,...
Pennsylvania, Delaware Agent Groups Part Ways With PIA National
Nov 2 2011 // Two independent agent associations in the northeast said they will discontinue their affiliations with the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA). The Insurance Agents & Brokers of Pennsylvania...
Swett & Crawford Adds Casualty Broker in Pennsylvania
Nov 2 2011 // Atlanta-headquartered wholesale intermediary Swett & Crawford hired Chris Hendrix as a new casualty broker at its Philadelphia-North office. Hendrix comes to Swett from Southern Cross Underwriters (CRC) where he spent...
National Flood Insurance Program Offers Free Seminars for Penn. Agents
Nov 1 2011 // The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) said it is offering insurance agents free training seminars on flood insurance in several locations across Pennsylvania. The seminars will cover basic insurance issues and also...
