All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 5 2012 // Pittsburgh-headquartered health insurance giant Highmark Inc. has named Dr. William Winkenwerder as the company’s new chief executive officer.Dr. William WinkenwerderThe appointment comes two months after previous...
Jun 4 2012 // Tornadoes swept through several counties in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland last Friday, knocking down trees and power lines and damaging dozens of structures and homes. Here are the latest reports from The Associated...
Jun 4 2012 // The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania said on May 21 that it has established a new Wharton/Penn Risk and Insurance Program (WPRIP).The program’s goal is to promote and disseminate cutting-edge research...
Jun 1 2012 // It’s an anniversary the few remaining souls who live here won’t be celebrating. Fifty years ago, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the...
Jun 1 2012 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine announced Thursday that American International Group and its workers comp insurance units will pay Pennsylvania more than $16.8 million in fines and assessments.The...
May 28 2012 // The screen door flew open but the Great Dane just stood there. Twenty-six years of experience told postal worker Victor Torres to remain still, brace for impact, and position his blue mailbag as a makeshift shield. Torres...
May 28 2012 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that civil lawsuit plaintiffs alleging asbestos-related ailments cannot submit scientific testimony asserting that even the smallest exposure to the material could cause cancer. The...
May 25 2012 // Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Thursday approved more than $5.5 million in additional federal funding for property acquisitions in Pennsylvania that will permanently remove flood-prone properties from...
May 23 2012 // The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania said this week it has established a new Wharton/Penn Risk and Insurance Program (WPRIP). The program’s goal is to promote and disseminate cutting-edge research on...
May 7 2012 // The original criteria and objective definition for Super Regional P/C Insurersª was established in the Feb. 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal. Prior to the establishment of an industry-wide definition, a number of...
Apr 26 2012 // Pennsylvania regulators announced on Thursday their quarterly enforcement actions for the 2012 first quarter.The Pennsylvania insurance department said its office of market regulation closed 27 enforcement actions and...
Apr 23 2012 // Jim Rexroth knows what happens when drivers don’t pay attention to large farm equipment traveling on rural roads.The Lower Windsor Township, York County, Penn., farmer and his employees at Rexroth Farms have been...
Apr 20 2012 // Brown & Brown of Pennsylvania Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., said it acquired assets of Moten Associates, an independent agency in Norristown, Penn. Founded in 1970, Moten Associates offers surety...
Apr 18 2012 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. welcomed Pennsylvania regulators’ approval this week of the insurer’s proposed merger with Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co.Regulatory approval from Pennsylvania, where...
Apr 16 2012 // The insurance employment market in the East and Northeast regions — as in most other parts of the country — can be summed up the following way: hiring is “slightly elevated” compared to last year, but there...
Apr 2 2012 // A western Pennsylvania insurance company has fired the chief executive officer who was arrested a week ago after a fight with the husband of an employee with whom he was having an affair. Highmark Inc. announced Sunday...
Mar 30 2012 // The chief executive officer of a major western Pennsylvania insurance company is facing charges of simple assault and defiant trespass relating to a fight with the husband of an employee he was having an affair...
Mar 22 2012 // The law giving the Pennsylvania Insurance Department authority to review and disapprove rate increases in the small group health insurance market took effect on Wednesday.The law, Act 134, was signed into law by Governor...
Mar 21 2012 // Erie Insurance Group, the 20th largest P/C insurer in the country based on total lines net premium written, announced several officer appointments and promotions.Andrew Erman has been appointed as vice president and chief...
Mar 21 2012 // A supervisor in Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation program has been charged with bribery.Agents from the state attorney general’s public corruption unit arrested 53-year-old James McDonnell of Scranton...