All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2013 // Erie Insurance appointed Keith Kennedy as senior vice president for strategic and integrated services with the company’s Information Technology division. Kennedy’s responsibilities include overseeing the IT...
Feb 21 2013 // The U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania ruled last week that multiple claims that arose from allegedly defective drywall that the insured entity imported in one single shipment from China should be considered a...
Feb 21 2013 // The University of Pennsylvania Health System says it plans to stop hiring smokers and tobacco users.The policy starts in July at a system that includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Applicants must be...
Jan 28 2013 // Marsh, the insurance broking division of N.Y.-based Marsh & McLennan Cos., appointed Brenda Shelly as the firm’s new U.S. directors and officers liability (D&O) product leader. Shelly, who has relocated from...
Jan 23 2013 // Jimcor Agencies has appointed Christopher Hofmann to the position of branch manager of the Plymouth Meeting, Penn., office. Hofman brings with him over 15 years of insurance experience, having worked on the agency and...
Jan 23 2013 // GMI Insurance, a Valley Forge, Penn.-based managing general agency specializing in commercial transportation exposures, named Angela Milks as its underwriting director. Milks has more than a decade of experience writing...
Jan 11 2013 // A new risk management consulting firm recently opened its doors for business in Pennsylvania. Auspice Risk is an independent risk management consulting firm based in West Chester, near Philadelphia. Girija Shaffer, chief...
Jan 9 2013 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced on Tuesday that the state’s regulators collected a record of nearly $18 million in fines and $13.4 million in restitution in 2012.The collections were from enforcement...
Jan 4 2013 // Keystone Insurers Group has appointed Julie Webb as its Pennsylvania state vice president. Webb has spent the majority of her career with GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company), where she served as underwriting...
Jan 3 2013 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said on Wednesday he will ask a federal court to throw out the multimillion-dollar sanctions levied by the NCAA against Penn State University over the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal,...
Dec 19 2012 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers of Pennsylvania announced Joseph Pastor, CEO of Barr’s Insurance in Oil City, Penn., has joined the association’s statewide board.Joseph PastorThe Insurance Agents &...
Dec 14 2012 // A new high-resolution climate study by University of Massachusetts Amherst climate scientists — the first to apply regional climate models to examine likely near-term changes in temperature and precipitation across...
Dec 13 2012 // Pennsylvania will not set up its own health care exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act, at least not for now, Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday, putting the state on a course to join others led by Republicans that...
Nov 29 2012 // GMI Insurance — a Valley Forge, Penn.-based managing general agent for transportation insurance nationwide — announced the launch of Norman Specialty Insurance Group, a wholesale brokerage unit for specialty...
Nov 26 2012 // First National Insurance Agency, a unit of First National Bank of Pennsylvania, recently hired Michael Barbarita as managing director and chief operating officer. In this role, Barbarita will oversee marketing, risk...
Nov 26 2012 // Northwest Savings Bank agreed to acquire The Bert Insurance Group, an employee benefits and property/casualty insurance agency. The Bert Insurance Group specializes in commercial and personal insurance planning as well as...
Nov 7 2012 // Pennsylvania insurance department officials recently held a conference call with public insurance adjuster associations to discuss issues that have arisen in the aftermath of Sandy.The department has had a similar meeting...
Nov 6 2012 // Sandy-related claims are coming in at a fast pace, major insurers say. State Farm Insurance said it received approximately 90,000 Sandy-related claims (76,100 property claims and 13,900 auto claims) as of end of day Nov....
Nov 4 2012 // [Update: Maine also announced this week that hurricane deductibles would not apply for Sandy-related claims in the state. The Maine Bureau of Insurance told Insurance Journal Monday, Nov. 5, that hurricane deductibles will...
Nov 2 2012 // Insurers said Sandy-related claims have been pouring in at a rapid pace in the immediate days after the storm — and that as some sense of normalcy returns, many more claims are expected.The Progressive Corp. CEO...