All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 19 2012 // A state-run health insurance exchange is unlikely to be ready for a scheduled January 2014 rollout, Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator said Wednesday.Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine said development of...
Oct 15 2012 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been elevated...
Oct 3 2012 // Ruth Lape of Somerset, Pennsylvania, decided to stop driving in 1999, but it wasn’t because of any limitations that she felt she had.“It was when we moved to Somerset (from Ohio),” she said. “I...
Sep 17 2012 // The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA), a national alliance of over 4,000 independent insurance agencies, said four new agency members signed up in the Northeast region last month. The new members are: Capital...
Sep 13 2012 // Testifying before Congress this week, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine offered a blistering critique of the way the federal government is coordinating the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.In...
Sep 5 2012 // When Donald Yost tried to refinance his home about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh in January, he met a roadblock. It wasn’t his credit score — he had a solid rating — or the appraisal he’d paid almost...
Aug 31 2012 // “A drunk driver killed someone I love,” reads a sign on the Interstate 80 East exit ramp onto Route 611 in Stroud Township.It’s the same area where Raymond Gelormini Jr., 49, of Hackettstown, N.J., was...
Aug 30 2012 // An Ohio couple has settled their lawsuit against a northwestern Pennsylvania hospital they accused of killing their son to harvest his organs for transplant.The parents of 18-year-old Gregory Jacobs had claimed Hamot...
Aug 24 2012 // Erie, Pennsylvania-based Erie Insurance announced three officer appointments.Richard Burt has been promoted to executive vice president of product. In this role, Burt will oversee Erie’s three business lines –...
Jul 27 2012 // Violent thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic regions of the eastern United States late on Thursday, killing two people and cutting power to more than 130,000 homes and businesses in New York,...
Jul 23 2012 // State Farm has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania last Thursday against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.In its complaint, State Farm asked a judge to declare that the insurer’s...
Jul 23 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited King of Prussia, Pa.-based Arkema Inc. with 12 serious, one repeat and one other-than-serious violations for exposing workers to...
Jul 23 2012 // Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed into law late last month Senate Bill 388 that mandates all dentists in the state to purchase professional liability insurance. Pennsylvania is now one of 10 states in the country...
Jul 17 2012 // Two former cocktail servers at a Philadelphia-area casino say they lost their jobs after becoming pregnant because of an unfair weight policy.The complaint filed earlier this month against Parx Casino in Bensalem says the...
Jul 16 2012 // Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry-operated State Workers’ Insurance Fund (SWIF) said today that it is consolidating the SWIF claims division and field operations division into the claims...
Jul 10 2012 // The National Weather Service says a violent storm that downed trees, damaged homes and left 1,200 residents without power in west-central Pennsylvania this past Saturday, July 7, was a microburst, not a tornado. The...
Jul 2 2012 // New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company has promoted Treasurer Charles Prall to chief financial officer. He will also serve on the insurer’s board of directors. Being named to the CFO position is an enhancement of...
Jun 18 2012 // A judge ruled on June 4 that Federal Insurance Co., part of Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, must continue to cover Jerry Sandusky’s defense costs, at least for now.Sandusky is the former Penn State assistant...
Jun 9 2012 // Federal emergency management officials say they’ll demolish dozens of damaged and flood-prone properties in eastern and central Pennsylvania.Residents in Mahoopany, Wyoming County, Pa., cleaning up after flooding on...
Jun 7 2012 // A judge ruled on Monday that Federal Insurance Co., part of Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, must continue to cover Jerry Sandusky’s defense costs, at least for now.Sandusky is the former Penn State assistant...