All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2009 // A North Carolina woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for helping a chiropractor in a $12 million kickback scheme that federal prosecutors called the largest health insurance fraud in western Pennsylvania...
Apr 20 2009 // The wife of a retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud is challenging efforts by federal prosecutors to seize the judge’s home.Prosecutors claim former Judge Michael Joyce bought the...
Apr 13 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general says a Chicago-based escrow company that abruptly halted operations last month may have left homeowners holding the bag. Attorney General Tom Corbett says that some consumers depended...
Apr 13 2009 // A Pennsylvania law that empowers hundreds of nurse-midwives to prescribe drugs finally is in effect, ending the Keystone State’s distinction as the only state that barred the practice.Gov. Ed Rendell signed the bill...
Apr 10 2009 // A $3.5 million defamation verdict against The Citizens’ Voice. newspaper will be reviewed because of the role in the case played by two former judges at the center of a juvenile justice scandal, the Pennsylvania...
Apr 8 2009 // The wife of a retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud is challenging efforts by federal prosecutors to seize the judge’s home. Prosecutors claim former Judge Michael Joyce bought the...
Apr 3 2009 // A retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge will not be freed on bond while he appeals his insurance fraud conviction. Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill Jr. says Michael Joyce must report to federal prison once...
Apr 2 2009 // All members of the insurance community are invited to attend the Pennsylvania Surplus Lines Association’s Annual Membership Meeting, on April 8-9, 2009, at the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel in Gettysburg, PA.Highlights...
Apr 2 2009 // Northumberland, Pennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group has hired five new executives and restructured its top management team in a move aimed at boosting growth and enhancing services, the company said.Ralph Sitterson,...
Mar 31 2009 // Posit Science, a brain fitness company, announced today that it has extended its relationship with auto insurer Allstate. The companies began working together six months ago in a program to determine whether brain fitness...
Mar 31 2009 // Officials in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania officials say a tornado could have cause the destruction to five trailer homes in Clay Township. Dave Wiker, the county’s emergency services shift supervisor, says three...
Mar 26 2009 // Investigators are trying to determine if a firefighter charged with the latest fires in an arson-plagued suburb of southeast Pennsylvania could be responsible for any other unsolved blazes.Robert Tracey Jr., of...
Mar 24 2009 // The driver of a tractor-trailer carrying a hazardous chemical told authorities that he swerved to avoid a deer before his rig overturned, prompting a nine-hour evacuation of about 5,000 people in northeastern...
Mar 20 2009 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario has approved a first-of-its-kind insurance discount for homeowners who have certain kinds of environmentally friendly technology in their houses. The discount, which goes into...
Mar 17 2009 // Fire has struck in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania area again, but officials says it’s not believed to be connected to the recent string of arsons in that area.The fire erupted just after midnight Monday in what is...
Mar 16 2009 // Authorities say there has been another arson in the suburban Philadelphia city of Coatesville.The 1:30 a.m. blaze struck two homes on East Valley Road in the city, and firefighters say they were badly damaged. John Hageman...
Mar 16 2009 // A retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge is appealing his conviction on charges of falsely collecting $440,000 from insurance companies.Michael Joyce was sentenced Tuesday to three years and 10 months in federal prison....
Mar 12 2009 // A retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge was sentenced to three years, 10 months in prison Tuesday for falsely collecting $440,000 from insurance companies after being injured in a slow-speed fender bender.Michael Joyce...
Mar 11 2009 // A federal appeals court, ruling in a case linked to the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, blasted a Texas company that offers lump-sum advances to plaintiffs who settle lawsuits.The settlement stemmed from a lawsuit filed...
Mar 10 2009 // A fire has killed 10,000 turkeys inside a central Pennsylvania barn.John Zechman of the Beaver Springs Fire Company says the 300-foot-long barn was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived overnight Friday. He says the...