Lansford PEO Targeted by Oriska Racketeering Suit

A Pennsylvania-based professional employer organization (PEO) with a legacy of lawsuits and regulatory troubles is the target of a racketeering suit filed by upstate New York workers' compensation carrier Oriska Insurance Co.Oriska — which is facing its own troubles following the conviction of founder and former chief executive James M. Kernan on an insurance-related charge in May — filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against All Staffing, of Lansford, Pa., on April 23.The lawsuit alleges All Staffing and the couple who run it, Stanley Costello and his w...