All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 6 2011 // Authorities say a trench collapse in eastern Pennsylvania has killed one construction worker and injured another.Allentown fire officials say the workers were on a bridge when the trench in which they were working...
Jan 5 2011 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market.Also, availability does not...
Dec 30 2010 // A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a bar patron who claims he and another customer should have been searched for weapons before they shot one another in February. Forty-two-year-old Thomas...
Dec 22 2010 // Marsh’s retail agency business has acquired Trion Group Inc., the largest privately held employee benefits specialist in the United States with $74 million in annual revenue.Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Dec 15 2010 // Authorities say a northwestern Pennsylvania couple is expected to recover from their injuries in an explosion and fire that destroyed their home near the New York border. Officials in Bradford say Robert and Beverly Butler...
Dec 7 2010 // A fire that destroyed a controversial Civil War-themed chapel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was set intentionally, police said.There are no official suspects, but investigators are seeking three teens reported to be in the...
Nov 19 2010 // A federal court forfeiture hearing is set in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud. Michael Joyce, of Millcreek Township, is serving a 46-month prison sentence for collecting...
Nov 14 2010 // A Pennsylvania woman is suing natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy Corp. and two of its subsidiaries, claiming that drilling near her rural home has fouled the water with methane and other pollutants and created a rash of...
Nov 14 2010 // AIM, Quincy MutualA.I.M. Mutual Insurance Cos. and Quincy Mutual Group will join forces to create the Commercial Solutions Underwriting Alliance, a business arrangement designed to meet the commercial lines product needs...
Nov 4 2010 // Authorities say a roofer wasn’t wearing a safety harness when he fell died in a roof collapse at a prestigious eastern Pennsylvania private school.Montgomery County Coroner Walter Hofman says Kevin Sensenig had...
Oct 29 2010 // Pennsylvania-based wholesaler USG Insurance Services has hired James Budd as an underwriter and broker in its Canonsburg office. Budd, a 30-year industry veteran, most recently served as senior account executive with DVUA,...
Oct 25 2010 // Insurance broker Brown & Brown has acquired part of the business of Berwyn, Pa.-based Greystone Benefits, Inc. The company said that the acquired book of business, with annual revenues of approximately $1.2 million,...
Oct 22 2010 // Three men burned in a July explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works have sued claiming the steelmaker’s managers directed them to repair a “live” gas line even after an alarm went off warning...
Oct 13 2010 // A Philadelphia-area school district has agreed to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops.The Lower Merion School District admits it captured thousands of webcam photographs...
Oct 12 2010 // A big drop in the size and amount of payouts from Pennsylvania’s Mcare fund show that the state’s medical malpractice climate is improving, Gov. Edward Rendell said.Over the last seven years, Mcare —which...
Oct 6 2010 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in Florida earned an average return on surplus of 6.6 percent in 2009, their sixth straight profitable year, although their profits were lower than in 2008.That’s one of the news...
Sep 30 2010 // A student is in custody following a series of fires inside a northeastern Pennsylvania dorm.Nineteen-year-old Ryan Burke was arrested hours after two fires broke out early Tuesday in the dorm on the campus of East...
Sep 20 2010 // A new bill introduced to the Pennsylvania senate would double the minimum liability amounts of auto insurance policies in the state.Current laws set minimum liability limits for bodily injury at $15,000 per person and...
Sep 17 2010 // Thirteen families in the heart of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale say their water wells have been contaminated by poisonous fluids blasted deep underground by a drilling company using a technique at the center of a fierce...
Sep 16 2010 // Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over strip searches for nonviolent offenders.County solicitor Michael Wojcik tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the county agreed to...