All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2018 // Officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and the Insurance Department have commended U.S. Congress for including a patient brokering provision in the recently passed Substance Use Disorder...
Nov 28 2018 // Investigators say a broken rail caused a freight train derailment in Pittsburgh over the summer that disrupted service for weeks.Norfolk Southern issued the findings Wednesday in a report to the Federal Railroad...
Nov 19 2018 // Pennsylvanians have dealt with their first taste of wintry weather this season, and the storm brought much more snow than predicted, making roads around the state icy and treacherous.A meteorologist told the Allentown...
Nov 19 2018 // Criminal charges have been announced against 60 Pennsylvanians following investigations by the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section. As a result, 23 people were charged in Eastern Pennsylvania, 10 in Central...
Nov 14 2018 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has received two mid-year workers’ compensation loss cost filings with a proposed effective date of January 1, 2019, from the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB). The...
Nov 13 2018 // Chicago-based ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., has partnered with the Indiana Osteopathic Association (IOA) and the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA) on a medical professional liability insurance...
Nov 8 2018 // Criminal charges have been announced against 60 Pennsylvanians following investigations by the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section. As a result, 23 people were charged in Eastern Pennsylvania, 10 in Central...
Nov 5 2018 // An Amtrak engineer charged with manslaughter in a deadly high-speed derailment in Philadelphia won’t go on trial until next year because of delays in getting evidence from federal investigators.A lawyer for Brandon...
Nov 2 2018 // PMA Companies, a Pennsylvania-headquartered provider of workers’ compensation, casualty insurance, and TPA and risk services, has named Josephine Copeland as vice president of Managed Care.In this role, Copeland is...
Oct 25 2018 // Arthur Hall Insurance, a West Chester, Penn.-based insurance agency, has hired Cynthia Hernandez as a commercial lines account manager. In this role, Hernandez will be responsible for all client management services for the...
Oct 24 2018 // NJM Insurance Group (NJM), a property and casualty insurer in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., has hired Jeneen M. Callahan to lead the expansion of its Teen Driver Safety Program into Pennsylvania.In her role,...
Oct 23 2018 // Businesses and homeowners in Lancaster, York and surrounding Pennsylvania counties affected by flooding in August will be eligible for low-interest federal loans.Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said Friday those areas have...
Oct 22 2018 // USI Insurance Services (USI), a provider of insurance brokerage and risk management services, has acquired Philadelphia, Penn.-based Beneficial Insurance Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Beneficial Bancorp...
Oct 22 2018 // An Amtrak engineer charged with manslaughter in a deadly high-speed derailment in Philadelphia won’t go on trial until next year because of delays in getting evidence from federal investigators.A lawyer for Brandon...
Oct 15 2018 // With automotive officials estimating that as many as 40,000 vehicles were damaged by flooding from Hurricane Florence, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) are...
Oct 11 2018 // Erie Insurance, an Erie, Penn.-based insurer, has named Sean Dugan as vice president and corporate human resources officer. His new role begins October 25.In this role, Dugan will have oversight of the Talent Acquisition,...
Oct 4 2018 // A construction crew repairing a water line accidentally struck a gas main in western Pennsylvania, sparking a fire that injured one worker.The blast in Bethel Park occurred around 2 a.m. Wednesday and burned for about two...
Oct 3 2018 // With automotive officials estimating that as many as 40,000 vehicles were damaged by flooding from Hurricane Florence, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) are...
Oct 3 2018 // A car explosion that rocked downtown Allentown, Penn., left three males dead, including the likely “perpetrator,” officials said Sunday as federal authorities who are leading the investigation looked ahead to...
Oct 1 2018 // Federal investigators say speed and a lack of awareness were likely to blame for an accident last year near Philadelphia, Penn., involving three out-of-service SEPTA trains.A train rear-ended a stopped train near the 69th...