All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2013 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh say the federal government is trying to remove First Amendment religious protections from church-related schools and charities “for the first time in history” by...
Nov 6 2013 // Deaths from fires and burns are the third-leading cause of fatal home injuries, and Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine offered five simple ways to prevent home fires.“Often victims in house fires...
Nov 1 2013 // AssuredPartners Inc., through its subsidiary AssuredPartners of New Jersey, acquired Eastern Insurance Acquisition Agency (D/B/A Eastern Insurance Group) in Pennsylvania.Eastern Insurance Group specializes in commercial...
Oct 25 2013 // A decade after a back-and-forth legislative battle that saw both doctors and lawyers visiting the state capitol by the hundreds – perhaps thousands – to argue for or against tort reforms that led to state law...
Oct 22 2013 // Complaints are mounting over Pennsylvania’s new, online system for filing appeals in workers’ compensation cases, with critics saying it often cannot upload documents and sometimes makes paperwork disappear.A...
Oct 9 2013 // A western Pennsylvania man who claimed a police officer used a stun gun on him while he was handcuffed was paid $225,000 by a borough’s insurance carrier to settle a lawsuit.The lawsuit was filed in July on behalf of...
Oct 7 2013 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies announced the hiring of Kurt D. Hines as senior vice president of field underwriting. He is based in the company’s Bala Cynwyd, Penn., headquarters.Kurt D. HinesHines will be...
Oct 2 2013 // Former Pennsylvania State University Coach Jerry Sandusky, who was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing boys, failed to persuade a state appeals court that he deserved a new trial.Sandusky said his...
Sep 30 2013 // Allstate Insurance Company announced last week that the company is planning to hire new insurance agents in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The insurer would hire approximately 455 new...
Sep 24 2013 // Medical professional liability insurer ProAssurance Corp. said it is acquiring monoline workers’ compensation insurer Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. in an all-cash transaction that values Eastern at $24.50 per...
Sep 23 2013 // Pennsylvania State Sen. John H. Eichelberger Jr. (R – Blair) is an insurance professional who has achieved success in two highly competitive worlds: insurance agency business and legislative politics.Eichelberger has...
Sep 21 2013 // The mandate that large employers provide health care coverage to their employees has been put off until 2015, but some businesses have already started changing health care benefits.Still, many local employers in Bucks...
Sep 13 2013 // Christopher Ellison went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007. What should have been a routine dentist visit left him permanently incapacitated.The $17.5 million Ellison and his...
Sep 10 2013 // Running a successful insurance agency business is tough enough by itself but some insurance pros are taking it one step further. They manage to juggle multiple careers in insurance and politics.Pennsylvania State Sen. John...
Sep 9 2013 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) says the average price paid for physician-dispensed Vicodin — a commonly dispensed narcotic pain medication in Pennsylvania and Maryland — was...
Sep 9 2013 // They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and...
Sep 9 2013 // The federal Affordable Care Act will not lead to widespread premium increases in the individual health insurance market. That’s according to a new analysis of 10 states and the United States overall by RAND Corp.,...
Aug 13 2013 // The H.W. Kaufman Financial Group announced the acquisition of ISI Insurance Services, a Uniontown, Penn.-based provider of premium audits, loss control and inspection services.ISI will join the team at US-Reports, a...
Aug 13 2013 // A state court overruled Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator in a decision made public Monday, siding with hospital officials and doctors who said a supplemental medical malpractice insurance fund is keeping too...
Aug 6 2013 // New York-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro recently hired Neal Wallace as property/casualty senior vice president. Reporting to the Boston office, Wallace joins the Integro Healthcare Practice and...