Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Coverage for Late Notice
May 7 2009 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is trumpeting a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that it says upholds the importance of enforcing the plain meaning of insurance contract language. The...
Contractor Appeals in Pennsylvania Electrocution Lawsuit
May 4 2009 // A contractor wants an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the parents of a Pittsburgh-area soldier electrocuted in an Army barracks shower in Iraq. The notice of appeal filed Thursday by KBR Inc., doesn’t...
Pennsylvania Ex-Judge in Federal Prison for Insurance Fraud
May 1 2009 // An ex-judge for the Pennsylvania Superior Court has begun serving his 46-month sentence for insurance fraud at a minimum-security federal prison in West Virginia. Online federal prison record confirm that former judge...
Pennsylvania Man Convicted of $650K Workers’ Comp Swindle
Apr 24 2009 // A federal jury in northeastern Pennsylvania has found a businessman guilty of pilfering nearly $650,000 from a county workers’ compensation fund. Executive Claims Administration president Charles Costanzo of Dunmore...
Pennsylvania Nuke Victims Get $52.5M from Babcock & Wilcox
Apr 22 2009 // People who live near a former nuclear fuel plant in western Pennsylvania will get $52.5 million to settle their 14-year-old lawsuit against Babcock & Wilcox Co.. The settlement, approved Friday by a federal judge in...
Woman Sentenced in Western Pennsylvania Chiropractor’s Fraud
Apr 20 2009 // A North Carolina woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for helping a chiropractor in a $12 million kickback scheme that federal prosecutors called the largest health insurance fraud in western Pennsylvania...
Wife of Convicted Pennsylvania Ex-Judge Challenges Fed Forfeiture
Apr 20 2009 // The wife of a retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud is challenging efforts by federal prosecutors to seize the judge’s home. Prosecutors claim former Judge Michael Joyce bought the...
Pennsylvania Official Warns of Defunct Escrow Company
Apr 13 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general says a Chicago-based escrow company that abruptly halted operations last month may have left homeowners holding the bag. Attorney General Tom Corbett says that some consumers depended...
Pennsylvania Law Gives Prescription Power to Nurse-Midwives
Apr 13 2009 // A Pennsylvania law that empowers hundreds of nurse-midwives to prescribe drugs finally is in effect, ending the Keystone State’s distinction as the only state that barred the practice. Gov. Ed Rendell signed the bill...
Defamation Award Reviewed over Crooked Pennsylvania Judges’ Role
Apr 10 2009 // A $3.5 million defamation verdict against The Citizens’ Voice. newspaper will be reviewed because of the role in the case played by two former judges at the center of a juvenile justice scandal, the Pennsylvania...
Wife of Convicted Pennsylvania Ex-Judge Challenges Fed Forfeiture
Apr 8 2009 // The wife of a retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud is challenging efforts by federal prosecutors to seize the judge’s home. Prosecutors claim former Judge Michael Joyce bought the...
Convicted Pennsylvania Ex-Judge Won’t Get Bond Pending Appeal
Apr 3 2009 // A retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge will not be freed on bond while he appeals his insurance fraud conviction. Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill Jr. says Michael Joyce must report to federal prison once...
Pennsylvania Surplus Lines Association Annual Meeting
Apr 2 2009 // All members of the insurance community are invited to attend the Pennsylvania Surplus Lines Association’s Annual Membership Meeting, on April 8-9, 2009, at the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel in Gettysburg, PA. Highlights...
Keystone Insurers Group Realigns Top Management
Apr 2 2009 // Northumberland, Pennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group has hired five new executives and restructured its top management team in a move aimed at boosting growth and enhancing services, the company said. Ralph...
Allstate Tests Brain Fitness Exercise Software and Driver Safety in Pennsylvania
Mar 31 2009 // Posit Science, a brain fitness company, announced today that it has extended its relationship with auto insurer Allstate. The companies began working together six months ago in a program to determine whether brain fitness...
Tornado May Be Cause of Destroyed Pennsylvania Trailer Homes
Mar 31 2009 // Officials in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania officials say a tornado could have cause the destruction to five trailer homes in Clay Township. Dave Wiker, the county’s emergency services shift supervisor, says three...
Firefighter Investigated in String of Pennsylvania Arsons
Mar 26 2009 // Investigators are trying to determine if a firefighter charged with the latest fires in an arson-plagued suburb of southeast Pennsylvania could be responsible for any other unsolved blazes. Robert Tracey Jr., of...
Deer Blamed for Pennsylvania Crash that Prompted Evacuation
Mar 24 2009 // The driver of a tractor-trailer carrying a hazardous chemical told authorities that he swerved to avoid a deer before his rig overturned, prompting a nine-hour evacuation of about 5,000 people in northeastern...
Pennsylvania Commissioner Approves First-Ever ‘Green’ Discount
Mar 20 2009 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario has approved a first-of-its-kind insurance discount for homeowners who have certain kinds of environmentally friendly technology in their houses. The discount, which goes into...
Pennsylvania Officials Say New Fire is Not Part of Arson String
Mar 17 2009 // Fire has struck in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania area again, but officials says it’s not believed to be connected to the recent string of arsons in that area. The fire erupted just after midnight Monday in what is...
