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#1 New Jersey Brings Civil Suits Against 3 Gun Dealers Over Visibility, Security, Ghost Guns

Dec 14 2023 // New Jersey`s attorney general sued three firearms dealers Tuesday, alleging one illegally stored firearms that were visible from outside a store and that the two others tried to sell “ghost guns.” The suits...

#2 Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States

Dec 4 2023 // A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made,...

#3 World Insurance Purchases Exchange Underwriters From Pennsylvania Bank

Dec 4 2023 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates has purchased the personal and commercial insurance agency Exchange Underwriters, Inc. from CB Financial Services, Inc., the holding company for Pennsylvania-based Community...

#4 States and Congress Wrestle With Cybersecurity at Water Utilities

Jan 3 2024 // The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack.It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its...

#5 Banned for 12 Years, Fracking Poised to Make a Comeback in Pennsylvania’s ‘Gasland’

Dec 22 2023 // A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the...

#6 Storm in Northeast Take 5 Lives; Causes Power Outages, Floods, Road Damage

Dec 21 2023 // Just days before the Christmas holiday, people across the northeastern U.S. were mopping up Tuesday after a major storm dumped torrential rains and brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to Maine, as some rivers in the...

#7 US Court Says Man Can Sue Pennsylvania Over 26 Years of Solitary Confinement

Sep 27 2024 // A man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement despite a history of mental illness can sue Pennsylvania prison officials for alleged cruel and unusual punishment, a U.S. appeals court said in reviving the man’s...

#8 Supreme Court Opinion on Maritime Law Solidifies Insurer’s Choice-of-Law Clause

Mar 1 2024 // A dispute between an insurer and a yacht owner went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with a decision recently—the first of its kind on marine insurance in about 70 years—to clarify federal maritime law and state...

#9 Judge Orders Pennsylvania Utility Board to Produce Chocolate Factory Blast Records

Apr 19 2024 // Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal agency’s probe into a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory last year, a federal...

#10 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Yanks Dentist’s COVID Insurance Coverage Win

Oct 4 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reversed lower court rulings and denied a dentist’s bid for insurance coverage for loss of use of his offices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The high court concluded in a case...

#11 Pennsylvania to Ban Driver Cell Phone Use, Require Reporting of Traffic Stop Data

May 13 2024 // Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cell phone for almost any purpose while driving, as backers of the legislation hope to reduce distracted driving accidents and deaths after...

#12 Pennsylvania High Court to Decide If Workers’ Compensation Covers CBD Oil

May 3 2024 // A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’...

#13 Cybersecurity Agency Warns Water Utilities About Hackers After Pennsylvania Attack

Dec 1 2023 // Hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities, potentially threatening water supplies, the top U.S. cyberdefense agency said after a Pennsylvania water authority was...

#14 Automated Braking Would Not Have Prevented Pennsylvania Train Crash

Mar 28 2024 // The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes.None of the circumstances the National...

#15 Lawyers Want Ohio Residents to Wait for Details of $600M Derailment Settlement

Apr 12 2024 // The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad’s disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio want residents to talk with them before deciding the historic deal isn’t...

#16 Pennsylvania Counties Still Restoring Systems After Cyber Incidents

Feb 1 2024 // Two Pennsylvania county governments — Bucks and Washington— reported some progress this week restoring computer systems and overcoming the effects of cyber incidents.But both still have work to do to return to...

#17 Pennsylvania Law Assures Medical Expense Coverage for Injured Unlicensed Driver

Dec 28 2023 // An unlicensed driver exclusion in a Pennsylvania auto insurance policy does not apply to allow an insurer to deny statutorily mandated first party medical expense benefits, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.The...

#18 Pennsylvania Issues Its ‘Expectations’ for Insurance Carriers Regarding Their Use of AI

Apr 10 2024 // Pennsylvania has issued guidance for insurance companies’ use of artificial intelligence systems (AIS) based on a model adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).The Pennsylvania Insurance...

#19 East Coast 4.8 Earthquake Causes Disruption But No Injuries or Sweeping Damage

Apr 7 2024 // An unusual East Coast earthquake shook millions of people from New York and Philadelphia skyscrapers to rural New England on Friday, causing no widespread damage but startling an area unaccustomed to temblors.The U.S....

#20 Pennsylvania Court: No Coverage for Mother’s Distress Over Son’s Overdose Death

May 2 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that Nationwide Property and Casualty is not obligated to defend its homeowner insureds against a wrongful death claim for emotional and mental distress brought by a mother whose...