All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 13 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed HB 1211 on Monday, the legislation that extends the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Fund abatement program for Pennsylvania health-care providers through...
Dec 6 2004 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected four officers for 2005 during the NAIC Winter meeting in New Orleans, including a newly created position of president-elect to effectively serve a two-year...
Dec 1 2004 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell has signed into law several bills affecting the insurance industry, including one on crop insurance awareness and another on insurance company surplus contributions.Senate Bill 912,...
Nov 26 2004 // The 2003-04 session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly adjourned in the early hours of Nov. 21 to conclude what the industry’s American Insurance Association (AIA) described as a successful and productive...
Nov 22 2004 // Subsidies to 30,000 doctors and health care providers who pay into a state-run program that provides catastrophic medical malpractice insurance would be extended for one more year under a bill passed unanimously by...
Nov 22 2004 // ACNB Corporation, a bank holding corporation based in Gettysburg, Pa., has agred to acquire the Russell Insurance Group, Inc., a full-service insurance agency in Maryland.Based in Westminster, Md, with a satellite office...
Nov 22 2004 // Mutual Risk Management Ltd. (MRM) announced on Monday that the federal judge presiding over its multi-million dollar claim for tortious interference against John Hancock Life Insurance Company (Hancock) has denied...
Oct 29 2004 // The state Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court ruling that keeps a candidate convicted of insurance fraud off the ballot for the state’s 51st Legislative District race. Michael J. Cavanagh was running as an...
Oct 29 2004 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert has filed a civil lawsuit in Commonwealth Court accusing 16 defendants of engaging in an elaborate statewide living trust sales scheme, that deceived older Pennsylvanians into...
Oct 25 2004 // Bucking tradition, a Lackawanna County, Pa., judge has ruled against a doctor who sought to keep the details of a medical malpractice settlement under wraps, saying that taxpayers have a right to know because they are...
Oct 25 2004 // The glass-and-steel pavilion that held the Liberty Bell until last year is moving from Independence National Historical Park to an insurance college in the Philadelphia suburbs. The decision by the American College, which...
Oct 21 2004 // The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has approved a bill that would extend state subsidies for two years to more than 30,000 doctors and health care providers who pay into a state-run program that provides...
Oct 21 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell this week released the following letter to the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation in reference to flood relief for the Commonwealth:Dear Senator Santorum: “As a follow up to our...
Oct 21 2004 // President George W. Bush used a visit to the United Sports Training Center in Downingtown, Pennsylvania on Thursday to address the matters of medical liability reform and health care.Joined by his daughter on the campaign...
Oct 19 2004 // Two insurance companies are not obligated to pay claims for a shooting rampage that left five people dead and another critically injured four years ago near Pittsburgh, a Superior Court panel recently ruled.The ruling...
Oct 14 2004 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) issued the following statement from President and CEO Carolyn Scanlan in response to Pennsylvania-specific medical liability reform polling data released...
Oct 11 2004 // U.S. Senators Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) have introduced bipartisan legislation to expand opportunities for young adults, encourage savings, and promote financial literacy by establishing investment...
Oct 11 2004 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department’s Web site has a new search feature for both consumers and insurance producers. The new “licensed producer” search gives consumers the ability to verify that they are...
Oct 11 2004 // Cameras watching intersections to deter drivers from running red lights may have an unwanted side effect, an increase in rear-end collisions, some studies show. In some cases, drivers who fear they’ll be caught on...
Oct 8 2004 // Bucking tradition, a Lackawanna County, Pa. judge has ruled against a doctor who sought to keep the details of a medical malpractice settlement under wraps, saying that taxpayers have a right to know because they are...