All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2019 // After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has entered a consent judgment ordering...
Feb 27 2019 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman said the number of private market flood insurance policies in Pennsylvania jumped 72 percent from February 2018, as she continued urging homeowners, business owners and...
Feb 27 2019 // Utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of Pennsylvania customers following high winds that roared through the commonwealth, knocking down trees and power lines. PPL Electric reported more than 20,000...
Feb 26 2019 // High winds have been bringing down trees and power lines in western Pennsylvania, leaving tens of thousands of utility customers without power.The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning covering many areas of...
Feb 19 2019 // The son of a suburban Philadelphia woman convicted in a multi-million-dollar insurance fraud case following fires at her Bucks County property has been sentenced to four years’ probation. Forty-seven-year-old Carl...
Feb 14 2019 // Ascinsure Specialty Risk LLC has promoted Steve Keinard as its assistant vice president and underwriting manager.Within this new role, Keinard will provide leadership, support and guidance to Ascinsure’s underwriting...
Feb 12 2019 // Brown & Brown Metro LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Smith Insurance Associates Inc.Smith Insurance is a family owned agency with more than 35 years of...
Feb 11 2019 // A suburban Philadelphia woman has been convicted of most charges in a multi-million-dollar insurance fraud case following fires at her Bucks County property. Jurors in Bucks County deliberated for more than four hours...
Feb 1 2019 // A U-Haul subsidiary and the former general manager of one of its Philadelphia stores have pleaded guilty after a food truck explosion that killed a woman and her teenage daughter.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the...
Jan 31 2019 // Pennsylvania’s State Workers Insurance Fund (SWIF), the largest writer of workers’ comp insurance in Pennsylvania, has filed a plan to retroactively correct charges to employers for their workers’...
Jan 8 2019 // Officials say service has mostly been restored to hundreds of Pennsylvania utility customers who had their natural gas service temporarily shut off.Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania shut off service Saturday to about 1,700...
Jan 7 2019 // Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania says it’s in the process of shutting off service to about 1,700 customers in Washington County.The utility company said Saturday that the decision to suspend service has been made...
Jan 7 2019 // From big data and blockchain to autonomous vehicles and new technology that isn’t yet on the radar, “change is inevitable” for the insurance industry in 2019.“Insurance companies, insurance...
Jan 4 2019 // GMG Insurance Agency (GMG), an independent insurance and risk management agency offering nationwide coverage and services, has acquired Superior Benefits Plans LLC, an independent employee benefits insurance brokerage...
Jan 3 2019 // A judge in Pennsylvania is considering whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the widow of a high school football team volunteer who died in 2016 after a player ran into him.Attorneys for the Valley View School District...
Dec 31 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Conshohocken, Penn.-based Preston-Patterson Co. Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1947, Preston-Patterson is a retail property and casualty insurance...
Dec 31 2018 // As Insurance Journal looks back on the most popular stories of 2018, its readers in the East region showed interest in a variety of topics from auto insurance to the September gas explosions in Massachusetts to state...
Dec 21 2018 // A federal judge is again ruling against Pennsylvania legislation that would take at least $200 million from a state-chartered medical malpractice insurer of last resort.U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner said the state...
Dec 19 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc received approval from Pennsylvania to resume self-driving car testing on public roads this week, state records show, nine months after it suspended the program following a deadly accident in...
Dec 17 2018 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved two mid-year workers’ compensation loss cost filings, effective January 1, 2019.The fillings are from the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB), an...