All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2014 // Ryan Axe flashes a few pictures of his family on the big screen in front of his students.“Now, all of you have seen my family more than my brother ever did, and my brother was my best friend,” he says....
May 6 2014 // Declaration Brokerage, LLC, a Mahwah, N.J.-based insurance agency, has acquired the business of RBLA of PA, a Stroudsburg, Penn.-based agency that offers commercial and personal lines coverages.Declaration Brokerage was...
May 5 2014 // AssuredPartners, CBS Coverage GroupLake Mary, Fla.-based AssuredPartners Inc., through its subsidiary Assured SKCG Inc., has acquired CBS Coverage Group Inc. in Plainview, N.Y. CBS Coverage Group specializes in commercial...
Apr 30 2014 // Walmart has partnered with AutoInsurance.com to offer car insurance to its customers at “everyday low prices.”The new arrangement provides an auto insurance comparison service through the AutoInsurance.com...
Apr 16 2014 // The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation announced that, as of April 15, its office will officially relocate from Columbus, Ohio, to Malvern, Penn.In 2012, The Griffith Foundation affiliated with The Institutes, an...
Apr 10 2014 // Consolidated Insurance Agents, a network of independent insurance agencies in New Jersey, is changing its name to ANE, Agency Network Exchange. It also unveiled a plan to add resources and staff to expand its network of...
Apr 7 2014 // North Dakota, California, Texas and Florida did well in job growth in 2013 while Arkansas and Pennsylvania lagged and West Virginia was the only state to lose jobs.Overall, 12 states showed job growth of at least two...
Apr 3 2014 // Mercury Insurance said the company is lowering its homeowners insurance rates for Pennsylvania residents by an average of 10 percent. The Los Angeles-based insurer said the rate reduction would help attract more...
Apr 1 2014 // The Pennsylvania Departments of Insurance and Labor & Industry on Monday announced a 5.15 percent workers’ compensation rate reduction, effective April 1. The officials said the reduction would save millions of...
Mar 31 2014 // Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on March 26 reaffirmed statutory employer defense in a general contractor liability case, in which a subcontractor was injured during construction work. The high court’s decision...
Mar 27 2014 // Jeff King had put his house in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., up for sale for $90,000 last year, put off by the city’s struggles with crime and the desire for a better school district for his four children, when he got a...
Mar 13 2014 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (IFPA) announced this week that the reporting of insurance fraud in Pennsylvania increased to an all-time record-high in 2013.Reporting jumped by 9 percent to 3,582...
Mar 6 2014 // Millers Mutual, a regional commercial property/casualty insurer based in Harrisburg, Penn., named Scott A. Orndorff as president and chief executive officer. Orndorff succeeds Bob Lyon who left Millers Mutual to pursue...
Mar 4 2014 // In 1977, there were 300,000 volunteer firefighters. Today, the number is closer to 50,000.Recruiting and retaining firefighters and emergency medical service providers is a growing concern in Pennsylvania and lawmakers are...
Feb 24 2014 // Kemper Corp.Kemper Corp. is realigning its property/casualty business. This realignment will result in one property/casualty segment for financial reporting purposes, beginning with the first quarter 2014. The new Kemper...
Feb 14 2014 // AssureStart, a Seattle-based start-up direct company that sells small business insurance on the Internet, has opened for business in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Owned primarily by American Family Insurance, AssureStart...
Feb 13 2014 // A Norfolk Southern Corp. train carrying crude oil derailed in Vandergrift in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, the company confirmed.There were as yet no reports of injuries or fire at the scene, after twenty-one tank cars...
Feb 10 2014 // The Hartford Financial Services Group recently announced the election of Julie Richardson to its board of directors. Richardson will serve on the board’s audit committee as well as the finance, investment and risk...
Feb 7 2014 // Utility crews were working feverishly to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the eastern U.S. that were still in the dark and cold on Thursday after an ice storm knocked out electricity to...
Feb 5 2014 // The Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (PAMIC) announced that Ron Gallagher will become the next president of PAMIC.Gallagher will assume the duties of that office on March 10, overlapping for three...