Former Pa. Commissioner Dies

Former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg died earlier this month.

Denenberg, 81, served as the Pennsylvania commissioner from 1971 to 1974, then spent 24 years working as a television consumer affairs reporter.

“Herb served as commissioner with one goal and focus: to fight for the rights and protections of the insurance-buying public,” Joel Ario, the current Pennsylvania commissioner, says in a statement. “He was steadfast in his fight to protect the consumers of this commonwealth, often taking on large insurance companies and challenging them to do what was right.”