Pennsylvania will receive $300,000 as part of a 10-state settlement resulting from an examination of Mortgage Access Corp., doing business as Weichert Financial Services. The examination, conducted jointly by banking regulatory agencies from each state, found that Weichert, headquartered in Morris

The Pennsylvania Bar Institute will be offering a free CLE program entitled Errant Judges and Lawyers: What to Do? on June 16, 2011 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. This course will be offered live in Mechanicsburg and via simulcast in Butler, Doylestown, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, West Chester, Wilkes-Barre

The April 2011 edition of Senior Health News is now available on the newly redesigned website of the Pennsylvania Health Law Project . Articles featured in this edition include: PA Budget Update: Office of Long Term Living – Funding and Program Changes Assisted Living Waiver a No-Go for Now House

School District Property Tax Bills to be Eliminated for 120,000 Senior Homeowners The deadline to apply for Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program for older adults and residents with disabilities has been extended from June 30 to Dec. 31. The rebate program benefits eligible Pennsylvanians

The Federal Trade Commission, City of Philadelphia, and Office of Councilwoman Quiñones-Sánchez will be presenting a workshop entitled, FRAUD: How to Protect Yourself , on Saturday, June 11, 2011 from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm at the Cardinal Bevilacqua Community Center, 2646 Kensington Ave, Philadelphia

Law Would Turn Georgia into Police State and Invite Racial Profiling, Groups Say The National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the American Civil Liberties Union, and a coalition of other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit today challenging Georgia’s discriminatory anti-immigrant law

Pennsylvania veterans received more than $1.5 billion in compensation and pension benefits in the 2010 federal fiscal year. According to a recent statistical report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Pennsylvania has 964,132 veterans – the nation’s fourth-largest veteran population. While

Pennsylvania received more than half a million dollars on May 17 as part of a $44.3 million multi-state settlement with a Massachusetts based pharmaceutical company accused of submitting false/fraudulent claims to the Medicaid program. The pharmaceutical company's alleged actions caused thousands of