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Boyer & Ritter LLC

Boyer & Ritter has announced 14 promotions effective July 1, led by the election of Wesley Veigle and Casey Surridge to principal at the Camp

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Health Care

State authority wrestles with fraud in ACA marketplace

A wave of fraud has been hitting Pennsylvania’s Obamacare marketplace amid an upsurge in suspicious activity in marketplaces nationwide. The state’s market overseer, the Pennsylvania Health Insurance Exchange Authority, has tightened controls over the last few months in an effort to block fraudulent insurance enrollments. State lawmakers also are looking to clamp down, with one measure […]

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Energy

Feds allege engineer parlayed inside scoop on TMI restart into stock gains

Federal authorities charged a former Constellation engineer with using inside knowledge of plans to restart an idled nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island to trade on the company’s stock. The alleged insider trading scheme earned the engineer, Casey Muggleston of Wilmington, Delaware, about $1.4 million, according to a complaint filed this week by the U.S. Securities and […]

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Construction

Data center plans roil Dauphin County township

For nearly two years, officials and residents in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, have been debating ground rules for data centers, large buildings full of computer equipment used in artificial intelligence and related applications. Now, with the ordinance still in draft form, the township is being asked to consider plans for a pair of data centers […]

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G&S Foods LLC

Thomas Koppelman is set to become president of contract snack manufacturer G&S Foods LLC, where he currently works as vice president of sales. Effective Jan. 1, 2027, Koppelman will succeed Dan Morgan, the company’s president and CEO, as part of a phased succession plan. Morgan will remain CEO through 2027 and then retire after a 36-year […]

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The Hershey Co.

Heather Hoytink has been named president of The Hershey Co.’s U.S. business effective July 8. Hoytink succeeds Andrew Archambault, who left in May to become president and COO of Nutrabolt, a nutrition, wellness and beverage company based in Austin, Texas. Hoytink worked most recently at PepsiCo as a senior vice president and chief commercial officer for the company’s U.S. […]

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Banking/Finance

Rehab company’s go-private deal under fire from shareholders

Several disgruntled shareholders are pushing back against the roughly $3.9 billion transaction that will make Select Medical Corp. a privately held business. Ahead of a scheduled vote on the deal this week, shareholders filed three separate lawsuits this month in Cumberland County and New York claiming officers and directors of the Mechanicsburg-based rehab chain did not […]

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West Shore office building sold to local firm

Camp Hill-based real estate company Linlo Properties paid just over $9.3 million for a Class A office building at 214 Senate Ave. in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, according to county deed records. The 91,306-square-foot office is 100% leased. The previous owner, a Villanova-based partnership called 214 Senate Avenue LLC, paid $13.9 million for the seven-story […]

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Nonprofit

Exec alleges retaliation after questioning newspaper gift to WITF

The parent of public media station WITF retaliated against an executive who raised concerns about the financial fallout related to the nonprofit’s takeover of Lancaster-based news organization LNP Media Group, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed yesterday in Lancaster County court by the executive, senior vice president and chief impact officer Cassie Farrelly.  Based in Swatara Township, Dauphin […]

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Health Care

Ruling clarifies ban on doctor self-referrals in work comp

In 1993, state lawmakers passed workers’ comp reforms barring doctors from referring injured workers to a menu of services in which the doctors have a financial stake. What’s on the menu has been the subject of a lengthy legal dispute settled last week by Pennsylvania’s highest court. In a 5-2 ruling, the state Supreme Court […]

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