All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 20 2010 // Pennsylvani-based insurer Millers Capital Insurance Co. has named Tamrah Grae Thomas as vice president and chief marketing officer. She has more than thirteen years experience in the property and casualty insurance...
May 17 2010 // An insurance company is balking at paying legal costs for a suburban Philadelphia school district accused of spying on students through laptop webcams.Meanwhile, a lawyer for a student suing the Lower Merion School...
May 14 2010 // A lawyer for the family suing a Pennsylvania school district for allegedly spying on students through school laptops says they won’t seek a class-action damage award.Lawyer Mark Haltzman says Lower Merion School...
May 13 2010 // A federal appeals court says an eastern Pennsylvania city and not its insurance company must pay a multimillion-dollar settlement with the widow of a police officer accidentally shot by another officer inside police...
May 6 2010 // CRC Insurance Services Inc. (CRC) – the largest wholesale insurance broker in the United States – released a memo to its customers stating that a number of CRC employees in Illinois, California and Pennsylvania...
May 3 2010 // An Erie County, Pennsylvania judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the guardian of a 12-year-old girl who claimed the girl was burned and traumatized when a convenience store clerk allegedly aimed a hand-held price...
May 3 2010 // TD Insurance Inc. in South Portland, Maine, has hired Leah K. Halsey as an account executive in employee benefits. She is responsible for working with employers throughout northern New England to design, implement and...
Apr 30 2010 // A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with workers’ comp fraud after authorities found her moonlighting as an exotic dancer while collecting benefits from a waitress job she claimed she couldn’t do. In 2007,...
Apr 29 2010 // Pennsylvania-based JC Stevens, a program underwriter specializing in cranes, has been acquired by Norman-Spencer for an undisclosed sum.“JC Stevens has a built a strong reputation as a quality underwriting and...
Apr 28 2010 // CNA announced that Robert Ivey, who recently joined the company as branch vice president of its Philadelphia office, has also been appointed branch vice president of its Reading, Pennsylvania office. In his new position,...
Apr 26 2010 // An insurance company is balking at paying legal costs for a suburban Philadelphia school district accused of spying on students through laptop webcams.Meanwhile, a lawyer for a student suing the Lower Merion School...
Apr 22 2010 // An Erie County, Pennsylvania judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the guardian of a 12-year-old girl who claimed the girl was burned and traumatized when a convenience store clerk allegedly aimed a hand-held price...
Apr 19 2010 // A state court has ruled that Pennsylvania has mishandled a fund to help physicians pay malpractice premiums and ordered the state to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of its general fund to resolve a pair of...
Apr 15 2010 // Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say two people were injured, one seriously, in a fire at a pipe manufacturing plant.The fire erupted after a furnace burst around 8:30 a.m. Monday at Victaulic Co. in Lower Macungie...
Apr 7 2010 // Commercial insurance broker USG Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Cara Delestienne to corporate trainer, based in the firm’s Pennsylvania office.This is Delestienne’s third promotion since joining USG in...
Apr 1 2010 // Arkansas regulators have suspended the Certificate of Authority of Lincoln General Insurance Company, domiciled in Pennsylvania, due to the company’s “financially hazardous condition.”In a March 24 order,...
Mar 31 2010 // John Yurconic Agency Insurance agency has signed a 10-year lease extension for its office inside the 25th Street Shopping Center in Easton, Pennsylvania.The agency relocated to the western side of the shopping center,...
Mar 30 2010 // A northeastern Pennsylvania utility worker has been burned in an underground fire that occurred while he worked to restore service during a power outage.Officials from PPL say the unidentified man was hospitalized in...
Mar 17 2010 // The number of deaths on Pennsylvania’s highways has plunged to its lowest level since Model Ts still chugged along the roads of the commonwealth, and officials are crediting years of safety programs but cannot rule...
Mar 11 2010 // A suburban Pittsburgh couple is suing Target, claiming their daughter sustained a brain injury when a toy box lid fell on her.Eric and Laura Surman, of Cranberry, claim 2-year-old Camryn Surman had her air supply cut off...