The Massachusetts Senate approved an amendment banning all Internet use while driving as part of its version of the state’s upcoming budget. Drivers would be banned from sending text messages, e-mailing or reading the Internet while behind the wheel under …
A fire chief in northeastern Pennsylvania says a small plane is stuck in a tree about 20 feet above the ground but nobody knows who was flying it. Dingman Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief William Mikulak says a woman in …
Virginia State Police say a two-day traffic safety campaign along Interstates 81 and 95 resulted in more than 6,800 violations. State Police conducted Operation Air, Land & Speed on Sunday and Monday. Along I-81, troopers stopped more than 2,100 speeders …
The Navigators Group Inc. has opened a Pittsburgh office of Navigators Management Co. Inc., its principal underwriting agency subsidiary. The office will serve western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia and will initially be staffed with underwriters handling Directors …
Investigators say a propane leak was the cause of a weekend explosion that leveled a house in Bridgton. Officials say the house exploded around 1 p.m. Sunday while the homeowner was sitting outside after taking his dog for a walk. …
Tim Schott has been named deputy superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance. Schott has been a county attorney in Webster County, Iowa since 2002, and has over a decade of prosecutorial experience – felony and misdemeanor cases – as …
A historic south-central Pennsylvania inn has been destroyed by arson. The fire began at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday at the 181-year-old Amity Hall Inn in Watts Township, Perry County, which is a little over 100 miles west-northwest of Philadelphia. The …
Harleysville Insurance of Pennsylvania has named Jonathan Young senior vice president and chief claims officer. Young will oversee all claims activities for the Harleysville organization, which includes oversight of the company’s home office central claims unit and its four regional …
New York’s second-largest medical malpractice insurer is more than $43 million in the hole, according to new regulatory filings, but state regulators are legally forbidden from initiating the process to liquidate or otherwise overhaul the company. The March 31 quarterly …
A lawsuit says neurosurgeons operated twice on a New York woman for brain and spinal cord problems she didn’t have. Kristy Pirozzolo is suing Long Island doctors Paolo Bolognese and Thomas Milhorat for $10 million. Pirozzolo says she now has …
