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People Moves: Pennsylvania Lumbermens Names Firko Operating Officer, Promotes 6

Jan 9 2025 // Steve Firko Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM), headquartered in Philadelphia, named Steve Firko as executive vice president and chief operating officer overseeing all front-line customer-focused...

Union Bay Acquires Pennsylvania’s Loyalhanna Insurance Group

Dec 30 2024 // Loyalhanna Insurance Group of Latrobe, Pennsylvania has been acquired by Union Bay Acquisition LLC, an aggregator of insurance agencies based in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Terms were not disclosed. This acquisition is Union...

Third Circuit Finds Pennsylvania’s JUA — and Its Surplus— Are Public, Not Private

Dec 19 2024 // Pennsylvania’s facility that insures high risk medical professionals is a public agency, not a private entity, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled.The ruling by a three-judge panel opens the door for...

Schrager Hampson Aviation Expands With Acquisition of Pennsylvania’s Bilella Agency

Dec 18 2024 // Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance Agency LLC, a division of Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance Group, has announced the acquisition of Charles W. Bilella Agency Ltd, its sixth aviation insurance acquisition. The Charles...

Parts of New York, Pennsylvania Buried by Up to 4 Feet of ‘Lake-Effect’ Snow

Dec 2 2024 // The governors of New York and Pennsylvania have declared disaster emergencies in areas hit with as much as three and four feet of “lake-effect” snow from a fierce winter storm.New York Governor Hochul declared...

Two Hospitalized After Small Plane Hits Another at Pennsylvania Airport

Nov 21 2024 // Two people were taken to hospitals after a small plane struck an unoccupied plane at an eastern Pennsylvania airport, authorities said. Police in Bucks County’s Buckingham Township said first responders were sent to...

Pennsylvania Home Health Care Agency to Pay $810K in Back Wages, Damages

Nov 8 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring a Wyncote, Pennsylvania, home health care agency and its owner, Dominique Conner, to pay 196 direct care employees a total of $810,320 in back wages...

Pennsylvania Prohibits Fires on State Lands as Dry Conditions Persist

Nov 7 2024 // Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) announced that it is prohibiting campfires on state park and forest lands until further notice. The department also encouraged...

DOL Seeks Reinstatement, Back Wages From Pennsylvania Manufacturer

Nov 5 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has filed suit against a York, Pennsylvania, manufacturing company alleging the company wrongly terminated an employee who raised safety concerns when directed to use a ladder to move...

Lawsuits Claim Children Were Sexually Abused in Pennsylvania Juvenile Facilities

Oct 28 2024 // A set of lawsuits was filed last Wednesday by people who claim they were sexually abused inside Pennsylvania juvenile detention and treatment facilities, making more than 200 people to have launched such cases since...

Pennsylvania’s Enders Insurance Joins Unison Risk Advisors

Oct 17 2024 // Unison Risk Advisors (URA) has acquired Enders Insurance, a family-run property/casualty insurance agency based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Enders has more than 60 employees throughout its central Pennsylvania office...

Pennsylvania Contractor Ordered to Pay $85K Owed to 6 Workers on Federal Projects

Oct 16 2024 // An administrative law judge has ordered a Pennsylvania-based federal contractor to pay $85,284 in back wages for failing to pay prevailing wages, fringe benefits and overtime pay owed to workers employed on multiple...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Yanks Dentist’s COVID Insurance Coverage Win

Oct 4 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reversed lower court rulings and denied a dentist’s bid for insurance coverage for loss of use of his offices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The high court concluded in a case...

Jury Awards $24M to Pennsylvania Man Injured in Botched Spinal Surgery

Oct 1 2024 // A Pennsylvania jury has awarded a $23.87 million verdict to James Spangler, a 58-year-old Harley Davidson mechanic from Manchester who suffered catastrophic injuries following a botched spinal surgery.The verdict...

US Court Says Man Can Sue Pennsylvania Over 26 Years of Solitary Confinement

Sep 27 2024 // A man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement despite a history of mental illness can sue Pennsylvania prison officials for alleged cruel and unusual punishment, a U.S. appeals court said in reviving the man’s...

Pennsylvania AG Launches Website for Reporting Data Breaches as Required by Law

Sep 20 2024 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced the launch of an online portal for companies and other entities reporting data breaches.The site is for reporting breaches impacting more than 500 Pennsylvania...

Propane Blast Levels Pennsylvania Home, Kills Woman and Injures Man

Aug 22 2024 // An explosion that leveled a home in northeastern Pennsylvania, killing a woman and leaving a man seriously injured, was apparently caused by a propane leak, state police said.The blast in Jefferson Township, near Scranton,...

Hub Acquires Pennsylvania Commercial Lines Agency IMC

Aug 6 2024 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited announced it has acquired Insurance Management Company (IMC).Located in Erie, Pennsylvania, IMC provides commercial insurance and risk management services to commercial,...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Review Stabbing Death Ruled Homicide Then Suicide

Aug 6 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the family of a Philadelphia woman whose 2011 stabbing death was initially ruled a homicide before the medical examiner switched it to suicide after police...

Pennsylvania Says U.S. Deal With Norfolk Southern Falls Short

Aug 5 2024 // Pennsylvania officials contend that a $310 million federal government settlement reached with Norfolk Southern Railway Co. over the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio does not adequately meet the needs of...