Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pa. Limits Liability of Horse Stable Owners
Dec 27 2005 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed a bill limiting lawsuits against the owners of horse stables. Supporters say the legislation, which goes into effect in 60 days, was crucial to protect the state’s nearly $10...
Costs Lower When Employers Choose, Says Study that Included Mass., Pa. Systems
Dec 19 2005 // Costs Lower When Employers Choose, Says Study that Included Mass., Pa. Systems The choice of medical care providers to treat injured workers by either workers or their employer not only impacts medical costs but also a...
Pennsylvania Renews Doctors’ Subsidy
Dec 19 2005 // About 30,000 health care providers would receive a state subsidy for a fourth straight year to help them pay their medical malpractice insurance bills, under legislation sent to Gov. Ed Rendell for his signature. The...
News Briefs
Dec 18 2005 // Massachusetts Auto Producer Reassignments Delayed: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has asked that a plan for reassignment of auto insurance producers doing business with the state’s residual...
Pennsylvania Sets Up Farm Risk Management Program
Dec 13 2005 // Pennsylvania is setting up programs to help educate some 4,000 farmers about crop insurance and risk management issues. Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff announced that Pennsylvania won a $754,000 grant from the U.S....
Pa. Senate Votes to Revive ‘Fair Share’ Lawsuit Reform Act
Dec 7 2005 // The Pennsylvania state Senate has voted to restore the “Fair Share Act” lawsuit reform in a 32-18 vote. State Sen. Jake Corman (R-34), the bill’s author, said that Senate Bill 435 brings Pennsylvania in...
Catholic Church in Pa. Fights Change to Allow New Sex Abuse Suits
Dec 6 2005 // Roman Catholic Church officials in Pennsylvania say a proposal that would allow sexual-abuse victims from decades ago to file lawsuits could lead to financial ruin for dioceses across the state. Some Harrisburg lawmakers...
GMI of Pa. Named Managing General Underwriter for XL Insurance
Dec 6 2005 // GMI Insurance Services of Valley Forge, Pa. has been appointed as nationwide managing general underwriter on behalf of the XL Insurance companies in their Auto Rental and Business Auto Programs.
LEADER IN DEER CRASHES:
Dec 5 2005 // Pennsylvania motorists are reporting more deer-vehicle collisions than any other state. More than 150 people are killed each year in the estimated 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions that occur across the country, State...
News Briefs
Dec 4 2005 // CONNECTICUT Work-Related Deaths: The number of deaths in Connecticut due to work-related injuries increased by 50 percent last year, rising from 36 to 54, according to a state report. Connecticut is one of 27 states to...
Pa. Governor Hails Improvements in Med-Mal Insurance Market
Oct 24 2005 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell said that his state has turned the corner on improving its medical malpractice insurance market thanks in part to recent legislative and court reforms and he urged legislators to...
NSM Insurance of Pa. Acquires Reich Coastal Condo/Hotel Program
Oct 19 2005 // NSM Insurance Group of Conshohocken, Pa. is buying the coastal condominium, hotel and motel insurance program of Reich Insurance Associates, announced Geof McKernan, chief executive officer of NSM. CHAMP, as the program is...
Pa. Insurer Will Not Raise Medical Malpractice Rates for 2006
Sep 28 2005 // Physicians in Pennsylvania will get a break from rising malpractice insurance premiums next year, as the Pennsylvania Medical Society Liability Insurance Company has indicated it will not seek a rate hike in 2006. The...
Pa. Hospital Risk Manager Says Malpractice Documents Were Altered
Sep 28 2005 // The chief executive officer and another top official of a city hospital knowingly gave dozens of altered documents to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a medical malpractice case, according to recent testimony in a...
Pa. Town’s Insurer Pays to Settle ‘Officer NASCAR’ Suit
Sep 25 2005 // The insurance carrier for the city of Erie, Pa. will pay $600,000 to the parents of a woman left brain damaged by a car crash involving a police officer whose driving earned him the nickname “NASCAR” among his...
Pa. Measure Would Grant Premium Break for Reducing Medical Errors
Sep 23 2005 // Pennsylvania State Rep. Phyllis Mundy this week explained to fellow lawmakers why they should approve a bill she has introduced to cut down on medical errors and rein in health-care inflation. Mundy’s legislation...
Pa. Man Accused of Stealing $400,000 from Universal Underwriter’s
Sep 22 2005 // A man in McKees Rocks, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury this week on charges of embezzling $400,000 from an insurance company and using the money to buy sports cards, sports memorabilia and vehicles. Richard...
Pa. Court Nixes Suit Against Doctor by Blackout Driver
Sep 21 2005 // A neurologist can’t be sued over a car crash in which his patient, who had a seizure disorder, blacked out and caused a car crash that killed a woman and her pregnant daughter, an appeals court ruled. The...
Pa. Officials Accept Waddell & Reed $11M Restitution for Annuity ‘Switching’
Sep 15 2005 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken has reached a settlement that requires the brokerage firm Waddell & Reed to pay $11 million in restitution to consumers nationwide whose variable annuities were switched...
Pa. Planners Turn Focus to How to Handle Potential Katrina-like Crisis
Sep 14 2005 // The size and complexity of the Hurricane Katrina disaster are forcing Pennsylvania’s emergency planners to confront new questions about how well the state might handle a civil emergency of similar magnitude. Floods...
