All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2022 // Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, has made a campaign staple out of the allegation that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing...
Jun 9 2022 // Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor released audit reports for 43 volunteer firefighters’ relief associations (VFRAs) in 30 Pennsylvania counties. The reports show 28 with no adverse findings and 15 with a...
Jun 7 2022 // On November 24, 2018, Alicia E. Shaffer Stalheim, 25, was murdered by her jealous boyfriend, Luis Rodriguez, seven months after Rodriguez learned Stalheim and her children met for ice cream with another man.Stalheim,...
May 27 2022 // MEMIC Hires White as Senior Underwriter in PennsylvaniaWorkers’ compensation insurer MEMIC Group has hired Curtis White as senior production underwriter, responsible for renewals and new business in Pennsylvania....
May 3 2022 // Organic and free-range chickens have been thrown into lockdown.Egg-laying hens that normally have access to the outdoors can no longer roam as freely or feel the sun on their beaks as some U.S. and European farmers...
Apr 14 2022 // SAN Group Names Fornari as Regional Vice President for MassachusettsSatellite Agency Network (SAN) Group, the alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, welcomed its recent hire Andrew Fornari, who has...
Apr 7 2022 // Workers’ compensation costs for employers in Pennsylvania are going down for the sixth straight year.Acting Insurance Commissioner Michael Humphreys approved a loss-cost filing, including a 6.25% reduction in loss...
Apr 1 2022 // The parents of a 19-year-old man who was killed by state troopers on an overpass in the Pocono Mountains filed a wrongful-death suit Wednesday, saying video that Pennsylvania State Police initially tried to keep secret...
Mar 7 2022 // Travelers, TrōvTrōv, an early insurtech that started life as a creator of micro-duration policies and evolved into an embedded insurance specialist, announced The Travelers Companies will acquire its technology assets....
Mar 4 2022 // Element Risk Management has acquired Ross Insurance, a personal and commercial lines agency located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ross Insurance was founded in 1960 by Bill Ross...
Feb 24 2022 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sided with an insurer seeking subrogation for payments it made to an injured worker before it was determined the insurer was not obligated to make the payments.The state’s highest...
Feb 17 2022 // Specialty insurance brokerage Risk Strategies has acquired the retail brokerage operations and assets of Joyce Insurance Group and associated businesses in Pittston, Pennsylvania.The acquisition of Joyce Insurance Group...
Feb 16 2022 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman will resign her position Feb. 25.Altman has accepted a position as chief executive officer of Covered California, that state’s...
Feb 10 2022 // The Hilb Group announced that it has acquired Wharton Surety Consultants, expanding its growing presence in the Philadelphia area. The transaction became effective December 31, 2021. Based in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Wharton...
Feb 8 2022 // The Biden administration on Monday said $725 million in federal funds would be available to states this year to clean up abandoned coal mines, one of several initiatives aimed at reducing pollution from decades of fossil...
Feb 7 2022 // Marsh McLennan, Affinity AgencyAssociation Member Benefits Advisors, a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, has agreed to acquire the associations business of Mercer, a business of Marsh...
Feb 4 2022 // ALLENTOWN, Pa. —The family of a New Jersey man shot and killed by a police officer near an eastern Pennsylvania amusement park in 2018 will reportedly receive part of a $950,000 settlement of a federal civil rights...
Jan 25 2022 // Pennsylvania-based Element Risk Management has acquired two Pennsylvania insurance agencies and another in Virginia,The Pennsylvania agencies are W.S. Hoffman Insurance located in Phoenixville, and L&B Insurance and...
Jan 21 2022 // Pennsylvania’s state Senate passed a package of legislation on Wednesday aimed at preventing data security breaches and requiring victims and law enforcement officials to be notified when they do happen.The...
Jan 10 2022 // LAKE LYNN, Pa. —The roof of a stone mine in southwestern Pennsylvania collapsed, killing one worker, authorities said.The collapse was reported Friday afternoon at Laurel Aggregates’ Lake Lynn Mine in Springhill...