All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2006 // Police have stopped about 1,000 vehicles and made 20 arrests in Pittsburgh as part of “Operation Nighthawk,” a regional campaign to crack down on drunken driving, police said.A joint force of Pittsburgh and...
Aug 18 2006 // A national insurance trade said it supports the recent Superior Court of Pennsylvania’s decision in the case of Wisniski v. Brown & Brown Insurance Co., that ruled insurance brokers do not have a duty to inspect...
Aug 17 2006 // A bureaucratic error led to the accidental cancellation of 172 Pennsylvania driver’s licenses this week, according to the state Department of Transportation.The licenses have been restored, but residents who received...
Aug 9 2006 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett has initiated criminal charges against a Lancaster County man in connection with an apparent “slip and fall” insurance fraud scheme.Corbett said agents with the...
Aug 3 2006 // Richard Willetts has joined NSM Insurance Group in Conshohocken, Pa. as the director of the Addiction Treatment Providers Insurance Program. Willetts has 12 years of experience with niche programs, focusing on addiction...
Aug 1 2006 // The Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain Sheetz Inc. has settled all but a few customer lawsuits spawned by salmonella-tainted tomatoes sold at its stores two years ago.But complicated legal battles involving Sheetz,...
Jul 24 2006 // The floodwaters that inundated parts of Pennsylvania last month destroyed at least 518 homes and affected another 7,100 homes and businesses, according to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.The preliminary damage...
Jul 24 2006 // News CurrentsWhile states adopt seat belts laws, 29 still balk at motorcycle helmets In Illinois and Iowa, motorists can get tickets for not wearing seat belts. In Connecticut, they are prohibited from talking on cell...
Jul 17 2006 // Pennsylvania’s two largest health insurers are discussing a possible merger, which could happen as early as September.Independence Blue Cross, based in Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. are part of the...
Jul 17 2006 // Two former West Chester, Pennsylvania city officials have settled a decade-long lawsuit against their local newspaper in a case that spawned a 2004 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that news media said eroded free press...
Jul 14 2006 // Pennsylvania high school seniors are increasingly drinking to excess and getting behind the wheel after drinking alcohol or taking drugs, according to a statewide survey. It also found that about one in five has gone to...
Jul 10 2006 // To Suzette Heydt of Allendale, Pa., an inflatable pool seemed like an inexpensive way to provide cool summer fun for her 9-year-old daughter and her roommate’s 23-month-old son.That was before a code enforcement...
Jul 6 2006 // Attorneys for Pennsylvania-based Sheetz convenience stores and scores of customers sickened during a salmonella outbreak two years ago have settled more than 80 lawsuits in recent weeks and agreed to delay a filing...
Jul 5 2006 // In Illinois and Iowa, motorists can get tickets for not wearing seat belts. In Connecticut, they are prohibited from talking on cell phones. And in New Hampshire, motorists can be fined if they are involved in an accident...
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Jun 29 2006 // Heavy rains caused flooding throughout eastern and central Pennsylvania, prompting evacuations and resulting in at least one death, as officials braced for the possibility of major inundations along cresting...
Jun 9 2006 // Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Stephen M. Schmerin will kick-off the 5th Annual Workers’ Compensation Conference at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, June 12, in the Chocolate Ballroom, Hershey Lodge...
Jun 1 2006 // All six suspects in one of the largest “slip and fall” rings in Pennsylvania have been sentenced to state prison and ordered to refund more than $84,000 that was illegally obtained through bogus insurance...
May 26 2006 // Average total costs per workers’ compensation claim in Pennsylvania showed steady growth, increasing more than 8 percent for claims evaluated in mid 2004 with 12 months’ maturity, according to a new report by...