All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 11 2016 // Two couples were awarded nearly $4.25 million on Thursday after a federal jury found one of the largest natural gas producers in Pennsylvania was responsible for the contamination of their well water, capping a six-year...
Mar 7 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department reclaimed $185,055,050 for insurance consumers in the state during 2015.The commissioner said that throughout 2015,...
Feb 24 2016 // Cabot Oil & Gas Co contaminated drinking water for two Pennsylvania families in its rush to begin fracking operations during the state’s natural gas boom, a lawyer told a federal jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania,...
Feb 24 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department reclaimed $185,055,050 for insurance consumers throughout the state during 2015.The commissioner said that throughout...
Feb 22 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that the state’s Insurance Department has created a new “one-stop shop” webpage to make information on private market flood insurance more...
Feb 18 2016 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced Thursday that it has acquired Encompass Risk Solutions Inc., an independent agency based in Warminster, Pennsylvania, with two additional offices in York, Pennsylvania, and Marietta, Georgia....
Feb 18 2016 // Specialty insurance broker Alliant Insurance Services has hired Craig Harper as first vice president within its Employee Benefits Group. He will be based in Alliant’s King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, office. In his...
Feb 12 2016 // The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB) said the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved PCRB’s filing which calls for an overall average workers’ compensation loss cost decrease of 0.90...
Feb 10 2016 // When agency consultants at Reagan Consulting hosted more than 150 industry leaders at a workshop on agent/broker mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recently, the mood was upbeat, since brokers are enjoying their best...
Feb 8 2016 // When agency consultants at Reagan Consulting hosted more than 150 industry leaders at a workshop on agent/broker mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recently, the mood was upbeat, since many brokers have continued to enjoy...
Feb 8 2016 // Pennsylvania’s insurance regulator is floating a proposal to protect Pennsylvanians against expensive medical bills at out-of-network rates, including emergency care.Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller said on Jan....
Feb 4 2016 // Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Assistant District Attorney Heath Long could not prove that a young man was texting when he careened his pickup into another, killing a grandfather and his teenaged granddaughter.“What...
Feb 4 2016 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has created a new “one-stop shop” webpage to make information on private market flood insurance more accessible to Pennsylvania homeowners and renters.In announcing the new...
Jan 20 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller has announced a proposal to protect health care consumers from surprise balance bills and is soliciting public comment.Surprise balance bills happen when a consumer...
Jan 19 2016 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that it has acquired Roehrs & Company Inc., an independent agency based in Exton, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Roehrs & Company was founded in 1923 by...
Jan 13 2016 // A former Pennsylvania theater owner convicted of falsifying insurance claims involving a flood at one playhouse and a fire at another has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.Federal investigators say New Hope,...
Jan 12 2016 // President Barack Obama has nominated four individuals to sit on the 13-member governing board of a new national insurance producer licensing system. They are state insurance regulators from South Carolina and Minnesota and...
Jan 11 2016 // Gregory M. Shepard, an activist investor who’s been a major stockholder of Pennsylvania-based Donegal Group and a frequent critic of the company, has sold off his shares.Shepard’s stake consisted of 3.675...
Dec 28 2015 // Kyle McClellan NSM Insurance Group, a program administrator based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, has hired Kyle McClellan as a producer on the NSM Retail sales team. Most recently, McClellan worked at Creative Financial...
Dec 23 2015 // Gregory M. Shepard, an activist investor who’s been a major stockholder of Pennsylvania-based Donegal Group and a frequent critic of the company, has sold off his shares Tuesday, according to securities...