Flood Insurance Approved For Pennsylvania This month, it was announced by HCI Group that the insurance subsidy they wholly own will soon be writing flood insurance in the state of Pennsylvania. The subsidy, Homeowners Choice Property and Casualty Insurance Company received the regulatory approval to write flood...
Pennsylvania Initiates Its Own Enforcement Unit to Protect Consumers The State of Pennsylvania's Attorney General recently established the Keystone State's own Consumer Financial Protection Unit to help protect the interests of consumers against predatory lending and other types of financial fraud. Headed by attorney Nicholas Smyth,...
Taxes have often been considered a contentious matter. Over the centuries, many Americans have sought to keep taxes to a minimum. The same is true today. Many legislators are aware of the need to balance taxes with revenues. In Pennsylvania, a new tax is attracting...
Lancaster may not be at the top of anyone’s list of technology hotspots, but one Silicon Valley executive is hoping to change all that. On October 10 of this year, co-founder and former chairman and CEO of AOL Inc. Steve Case will bring his Rise of...
Penn Treaty Network Insurance and its subsidiary, American Network Insurance Co. received court approval for their liquidation petitions in March 2017. The announcement, made by insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller, stated that the Commonwealth Court in Pennsylvania included plans for policyholders to lodge claims with a...
Born-in-the-cloud Startups : Financial Fallacies and Funding The next wave of Internet entrepreneurship can be found in born-in-the-cloud startups – the thousands of small companies that launch almost daily offering a host of virtual goods and services. The ease with which these born-in-the-cloud companies can launch is...
Career Opportunities in Banking New graduates entering the banking and finance industry – and for that matter, career employees too – will have to navigate an evolving landscape that’s seeing jobs shed as companies turn to automated processes. Those changes cover a lot of ground, from...