All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 26 2003 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell has apparently thrown in the towel on reforming the state’s medical malpractice insurance crisis this year, provoking an angry reaction from the medical community.He announced...
Nov 25 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on PMA Capital Corp. (PMACA) to ‘B’ from ‘BB-.’ It also said it has...
Nov 19 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Insurance Commissioner, Diane Koken, announced that her department will recover $10 million in a settlement of its legal complaint against a number of former officers and directors of the now-defunct...
Nov 3 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has charged a Pennsylvania woman with theft, forgery and falsifying documents for allegedly...
Oct 22 2003 // Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff has urged farmers who suffered crop damage due to Hurricane Isabel and recent flooding and windstorms to report their claims as soon as possible.“While damage to fruit...
Oct 3 2003 // State and federal disaster recovery officials will open a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) today for Chester County residents who sustained property damage in the severe storms and flooding associated with Tropical Storms...
Sep 17 2003 // Community Banks Inc. has completed its acquisition of Your Insurance Partner, with offices in Mechanicsburg and Dillsburg, Pa. Going forward, Your Insurance Partner will continue to operate as a division of Community Banks...
Sep 8 2003 // According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 70 percent of the drivers in Philadelphia and nearly half of all Pennsylvanians can now lower their auto premiums by selecting the “Limited Tort” option...
Sep 3 2003 // The Pennsylvania Medical Society, which provides health care coverage to the state’s medical community through its Insurance Agency operation, announced that Denise Secret Hughey has joined the company as a Senior...
Sep 2 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Insurance Commissioner, Diane Koken received praise from Patrick Meehan, United States Attorney for the Eastern District, for the help her Department gave federal prosecutors investigating Allen W....
Aug 29 2003 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken, in her capacity as the state regulator for the insurance industry, has released enforcement actions and market conduct examinations taken in July against insurance producers...
Aug 27 2003 // Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff announced that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) has raised the ceiling on Pennsylvania’s AGR-Lite crop insurance protection program from $100,000 to...
Aug 20 2003 // David Yeager, Director of Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell’s Action Team, participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Kemper Auto and Home, which is moving into a larger Lackawanna County facility.The...
Aug 19 2003 // Florida Healthcare Providers Insurance Exchange, (The Exchange) announced it filed an application with the state to offer medical malpractice insurance to physicians in Florida. The Exchange expects to begin issuing...
Aug 18 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Agriculture Secretary Dennis C. Wolff announced that the state’s “AGR-Lite” crop insurance protection program’s maximum policy size has been raised to $250,000, from the...
Aug 15 2003 // The PMA® Insurance Group, a regional property and casualty organization specializing in workers’ compensation and disability insurance, announced that it has relocated its Pittsburgh Branch Office to accommodate the...
Jul 29 2003 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken on Tuesday announced that Commonwealth Court has granted final Orders of Liquidation for the Legion and Villanova Insurance Companies. The liquidation orders became...
Jul 11 2003 // Thursday, at the request of Congressman Tim Holden, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s (PDA) Deputy Secretary for Administration, Russell Redding testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on General Farm...
Jul 9 2003 // Community Banks, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Your Insurance Partner, an agency with offices in Mechanicsburg and Dillsburg, PA.The transaction is subject to regulatory...
Jul 2 2003 // A bill sent to the governor on Tuesday repealing Pennsylvania’s 35-year-old mandatory motorcycle helmet law is ill-advised and should be vetoed, according to a long-time advocate of vehicular safety.The bill (SB...