All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2005 // The Pennsylvania state Senate has voted to restore the “Fair Share Act” lawsuit reform in a 32-18 vote.State Sen. Jake Corman (R-34), the bill’s author, said that Senate Bill 435 brings Pennsylvania in...
Dec 6 2005 // Roman Catholic Church officials in Pennsylvania say a proposal that would allow sexual-abuse victims from decades ago to file lawsuits could lead to financial ruin for dioceses across the state.Some Harrisburg lawmakers...
Dec 6 2005 // GMI Insurance Services of Valley Forge, Pa. has been appointed as nationwide managing general underwriter on behalf of the XL Insurance companies in their Auto Rental and Business Auto Programs.
Dec 5 2005 // Pennsylvania motorists are reporting more deer-vehicle collisions than any other state. More than 150 people are killed each year in the estimated 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions that occur across the country, State...
Dec 4 2005 // CONNECTICUTWork-Related Deaths: The number of deaths in Connecticut due to work-related injuries increased by 50 percent last year, rising from 36 to 54, according to a state report. Connecticut is one of 27 states to have...
Oct 24 2005 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell said that his state has turned the corner on improving its medical malpractice insurance market thanks in part to recent legislative and court reforms and he urged legislators to...
Oct 19 2005 // NSM Insurance Group of Conshohocken, Pa. is buying the coastal condominium, hotel and motel insurance program of Reich Insurance Associates, announced Geof McKernan, chief executive officer of NSM. CHAMP, as the program is...
Sep 28 2005 // Physicians in Pennsylvania will get a break from rising malpractice insurance premiums next year, as the Pennsylvania Medical Society Liability Insurance Company has indicated it will not seek a rate hike in 2006.The...
Sep 28 2005 // The chief executive officer and another top official of a city hospital knowingly gave dozens of altered documents to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a medical malpractice case, according to recent testimony in a...
Sep 25 2005 // The insurance carrier for the city of Erie, Pa. will pay $600,000 to the parents of a woman left brain damaged by a car crash involving a police officer whose driving earned him the nickname “NASCAR” among his...
Sep 23 2005 // Pennsylvania State Rep. Phyllis Mundy this week explained to fellow lawmakers why they should approve a bill she has introduced to cut down on medical errors and rein in health-care inflation.Mundy’s legislation...
Sep 22 2005 // A man in McKees Rocks, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury this week on charges of embezzling $400,000 from an insurance company and using the money to buy sports cards, sports memorabilia and vehicles.Richard...
Sep 21 2005 // A neurologist can’t be sued over a car crash in which his patient, who had a seizure disorder, blacked out and caused a car crash that killed a woman and her pregnant daughter, an appeals court ruled.The Pennsylvania...
Sep 15 2005 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken has reached a settlement that requires the brokerage firm Waddell & Reed to pay $11 million in restitution to consumers nationwide whose variable annuities were switched...
Sep 14 2005 // The size and complexity of the Hurricane Katrina disaster are forcing Pennsylvania’s emergency planners to confront new questions about how well the state might handle a civil emergency of similar magnitude.Floods...
Sep 7 2005 // Pennsylvania State Rep. Peter J. Daley, D-Washington/ Fayette, is planning on introducing a bill to provide flood insurance premium subsidies and other small disaster relief to homeowners, small businesses and...
Sep 1 2005 // Nichols & Assoc., of Philadelphia, Pa., has been acquired by Brown & Brown of Tampa and Daytona Beach, Fla., according a joint announcement by Thomas E. Riley, regional president of Brown & Brown Inc. and...
Aug 26 2005 // Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry’s (L&I) Bureau of Workers’ Compensation compliance unit announced the prosecution of four employers for reportedly failing to maintain...
Aug 25 2005 // The following is an op-ed or “Letters” statement from The Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania:Pennsylvania passed a law to allow motorcyclists to drive without wearing a helmet. But who pays the medical...
Aug 22 2005 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has urged state legislators to pass a law to have the state pay for the life insurance premiums for National Guard soldiers and airmen on active duty, and a leading Republican senator said he...