All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 24 2006 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg, Pa., while her father survived.Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the scene. The...
Dec 20 2006 // The city of Easton, Pennsylvania is mulling whether to shore up its budget by charging fees to respond to vehicle accidents and fires.Officials said they would hire a for-profit company to do the collecting. The...
Dec 20 2006 // Northeast wholesale broker Jimcor Agencies has acquired Federico & Associates, a regional wholesaler based out of Lansdowne, Pa. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Montvale, N.J., Jimcor...
Dec 19 2006 // Consumers should be reminded to update their homeowners insurance policies to cover any big-ticket items they may receive as holiday gifts, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken recently advised.“Standard...
Dec 13 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said this week that he will roll out a plan to lower health care costs by forcing hospitals and other care providers to be more efficient and make fewer mistakes.The plan, to be unveiled fully...
Dec 11 2006 // The Pennsylvania state-workers’ retirement system said Friday it has settled for $93 million a class-action lawsuit against Cigna Corp. that accused the company and two of its senior executives of making misleading...
Dec 11 2006 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, while her father survived.Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the...
Dec 8 2006 // Pennsylvania should get out of the medical malpractice insurance business and return the medical malpractice market to the private sector as soon as possible, according to a report.Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken...
Dec 4 2006 // Pennsylvania’s highest court has breathed new life into lawsuits that ask the state’s four nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurers to use some of their cash surpluses to lower health-insurance...
Nov 29 2006 // Harleysville Worcester Insurance Co. in Worcester, Mass. has requested the approval of the Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance to transfer corporate domicile to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Harleysville Worcester...
Nov 20 2006 // Greg Thompson, president and chief executive officer of Thomco, is the new president of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association, a national organization serving program managers.Thomco, headquartered in...
Nov 20 2006 // Newly elected Democratic governors in Massachusetts, New York and Maryland are expected to name their own insurance commissioners, although it’s to early to know who the successors might be, according to insurance...
Nov 19 2006 // Greg Thompson, president and chief executive officer of Thomco, is the new president of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association, a national organization serving program managers.Thomco, headquartered in...
Nov 19 2006 // Newly elected Democratic governors in Massachusetts, New York and Maryland are expected to name their own insurance commissioners, although it’s to early to know who the successors might be, according to insurance...
Nov 15 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed legislation creating a fund to pay injured workers whose employers lack workers compensation coverage.The same bill — HB 2738 — increases the minimum amount an injured worker can...
Nov 13 2006 // A suburban Philadelphia man was charged with insurance fraud after authorities said he reported his dead wife’s ring stolen and then tried to sell it online.Police said Gary Blank, 37, of Bensalem, Bucks County,...
Nov 9 2006 // A Pennsylvania man has been indicted for his alleged role in an auto theft and insurance fraud ring in New jersey, accrding to state officials.New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Division of Criminal Justice...
Nov 1 2006 // A judge awarded $3.5 million in damages to a businessman and one of his companies in a defamation lawsuit against The Citizens’ Voice, a newspaper in Wilkes-Barre.Thomas A. Joseph alleged he and his business...
Oct 30 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed a bill to continue state subsidies for a fifth straight year to help tens of thousands of physicians and other health care specialists pay their medical malpractice insurance...
Oct 23 2006 // Pennsylvania is trying to convince the nation’s top financial services and insurance companies to establish backup operations in the state so that markets can recover quickly in the event of another terror strike on...