All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2014 // Robert L. Nash, president of the New Hampshire Association of Insurance Agents (NHAIA), has announced his retirement effective Dec. 31, 2014. Nash, president of NHAIA since 2001, has spent 43 years in association...
Nov 12 2014 // C&R Insurance Services Inc. in Wayne, Pennsylvania, has acquired Garden State Professional Insurance Agency, a professional liability agency based in Freehold, New Jersey, and its affiliate FLAG Insurance Services....
Nov 5 2014 // A western Pennsylvania doctor serving more than 11 years in federal prison for writing phony painkiller prescriptions has been scheduled to plead guilty to health care fraud charges. Forty-three-year-old Oliver Herndon was...
Nov 3 2014 // Keith E. Foster Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B), a tri-state trade organization based in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, has hired Keith E. Foster, CPA, as chief financial officer/chief operating officer. Foster...
Nov 3 2014 // Health care providers will be getting $200 million from the state of Pennsylvania in a settlement announced on Oct. 16 over litigation about a massive fund set up to help doctors pay malpractice insurance...
Oct 31 2014 // Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced the assessment for the state’s Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Fund — a medical liability coverage fund run by the state — will decrease 48...
Oct 22 2014 // Nothing says “Lancaster County” in Pennsylvania like the sight and sound of a lathered horse pulling a square, black buggy down the road.The county undoubtedly has more of the horse-powered vehicles than any...
Oct 17 2014 // Health care providers will be getting $200 million from the state of Pennsylvania in a settlement announced Thursday over litigation about a massive fund set up to help doctors pay malpractice insurance premiums.Gov. Tom...
Oct 17 2014 // Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is defending itself from a civil suit alleging it is partly at fault for a car crash that killed a 15-year-old girl in northeastern Pennsylvania.The Citizens’ Voice...
Oct 14 2014 // Millions of gallons of crude oil are passing through western Pennsylvania — up to 75 trains each week on their way to refineries in the East — according to records released by state emergency management...
Oct 10 2014 // First Commonwealth Insurance Agency, an Indiana, Pennsylvania-based insurance agency and a subsidiary of First Commonwealth Financial Corp., acquired Thompson/McLay Insurance Associates, an agency also based in Indiana,...
Oct 7 2014 // Reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Co. is launching a new cyber privacy and network protection product with Ridge Insurance Solutions Co., a new Lloyd’s managing agency led by Tom Ridge, former U.S. secretary...
Sep 25 2014 // Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane announced this week the arrest of 27 individuals across the state for a variety of unrelated insurance fraud offenses.The recent sweep was the result of investigations...
Sep 22 2014 // Penn National Insurance in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, said Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Christine Sears has been elected president and CEO-elect by the company’s board of directors.She succeeds...
Sep 8 2014 // KMRD Partners, a property/casualty insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm in Warrington, Pennsylvania, has hired Keith Boyer as managing partner. Boyer’s role as managing partner will include...
Sep 2 2014 // Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Penn., and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania announced officers for the new administrative year...
Aug 29 2014 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, a medical professional liability insurance carrier domiciled in San Francisco, said it is now offering its medical professional liability coverage to healthcare professionals in Delaware...
Aug 15 2014 // The accidental drowning death of a Leacock Township, Pennsylvania, teen on August 9 was tragic, but unfortunately, not unique.Fifteen-year-old Jonas King was operating a skid loader when it overturned into a manure pit,...
Aug 13 2014 // Motorists breezing through parts of Pennsylvania are now able to set their cruise control at 70 mph without having to worry about getting a speeding ticket.Pennsylvania is the latest state to join the 70 mph club. A...
Aug 4 2014 // Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro appointed Ruth Kilduff as chairman, and Anne Anderson as president of its United States operations, Integro USA.Both Kilduff and Anderson are Integro veterans. Kilduff...