All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 27 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors.Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in...
Aug 27 2010 // A federal court forfeiture hearing has been postponed in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud, because the judge’s wife has hired a new attorney to try to prevent their...
Aug 25 2010 // Two Pennsylvania insurance agency execs and their spouses have been charged in what prosecutors say is a massive pyramid scheme that swindled local colleges, businesses and other organizations of more than $7.5 million.The...
Aug 23 2010 // An eastern Pennsylvania jury has awarded $6.8 million in damages to a woman who was injured in a 2007 drunken driving crash.A Chester County jury found a Coatesville restaurant liable for having continued to serve a man...
Aug 19 2010 // A federal judge has set a forfeiture hearing for a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge who is serving a 46-month prison sentence for insurance fraud.Michael Joyce, of Millcreek Township, was convicted of mail fraud...
Aug 17 2010 // Pennsylvania authorities have arrested a man who allegedly fabricated a $1.4 million insurance claim for storm damage to eight modular homes he owned in Pottstown.Attorney General Tom Corbett said that Kevin Paul Kollar...
Aug 10 2010 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario has stepped down as the state’s top insurance regulator to take a position with the federal government as director of federal Office of Insurance Exchanges.Robert L....
Aug 5 2010 // A woman sued Toyota Motor Corp., BP America Inc. and others, claiming their actions contributed to a March fire at a gasoline pump that killed her son.The wrongful-death and product liability action filed in Philadelphia...
Aug 4 2010 // Pennsylvania saw a 22 percent increase in fraud complaints in the first half of the year, in a continuation of a trend that started two years ago, according to the Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority...
Aug 4 2010 // Pennsylvania insurance regulators have given their OK to a planned acquisition of PMA Capital Cos. by Old Republic International Corp.Pennsylvania is the statutory regulator for PMA, which is based in Blue Bell....
Aug 2 2010 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says a network of surveillance cameras could be used to identify uninsured drivers and help raise money for the state treasury.Rendell brought up the idea last week in urging state senators to...
Jul 26 2010 // An oil storage tank at a natural gas well exploded Friday morning, killing two workers, leaving a third man remarkably uninjured and sparking a smoky well fire that smoldered for hours.A team of oil- and gas-well...
Jul 23 2010 // A suburban Philadelphia man who authorities say tried to pass himself off as a firefighter has pleaded guilty to intentionally setting a fire at a diner.Twenty-one-year-old Mark Gilliam, of West Bradford, was sentenced...
Jul 16 2010 // Investigators were looking for clues Thursday into what caused an oven at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh to explode, injuring 20 workers and starting a fire that burned for hours.The powerful blast in the coke oven at...
Jul 7 2010 // UPMC WorkPartners, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has announced a new workers’ compensation product line offering dollar one coverage for Pennsylvania companies.“Health care reform is...
Jul 7 2010 // Agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section have arrested the CEO of a bankrupt Scranton insurance agency, who is charged with the theft of more than $1.3 million in premiums that were...
Jul 7 2010 // Geoff Pratt is joining NSM Insurance Group as director of Workers’ Compensation Programs. Pratt brings 23 years of underwriting and risk management experience in monoline workers compensation. He last served as vice...
Jun 21 2010 // An accident at a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania injured two workers who were flown to a hospital for treatment, state officials said.Tioga County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator Dennis Colegrove said...
Jun 10 2010 // Pennsylvania-based PMA Capital Corp. has been acquired by Old Republic International Corp. in a stock-swap transaction valued at around $365 million.The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter, pending...
Jun 7 2010 // Insurance brokerage Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Pennsylvania-based employee benefits firm Irus Corp.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In connection with the deal, some Irus employees will become...