All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2020 // The owner of a mobile home park and other residences has filed a lawsuit against companies and a nonprofit group connected to the 2019 fatal propane explosion in Maine.The Farmington explosion killed fire Capt. Michael...
Nov 13 2020 // Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp. and an independent insurance provider in New England, has hired Timothy Moriarity as chief information officer (CIO). He will be based in Bangor, Maine.In this new...
Oct 27 2020 // Five people were hospitalized after a report of chemical exposure at a factory store in Skowhegan that led to the building’s evacuation on Thursday. The exposure led to the evacuation of the New Balance Factory...
Oct 16 2020 // It took two months for a supermarket chain to alert police and customers about the discovery of razor blades in fresh pizza dough sold at one if its stores in Maine, a newspaper reported.Product tampering at a store in...
Oct 14 2020 // Another supermarket chain is recalling a brand of fresh pizza dough amid concerns about tampering.Shaw’s and Star Market announced the company is removing Portland Pie Co. pizza dough from the shelves of its...
Oct 7 2020 // Sealy Nash of Charlotte, N.C. has been appointed as a senior production underwriter at The MEMIC Group, a specialty workers’ compensation insurance company serving the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine.She will...
Sep 21 2020 // A state of emergency remained in effect Thursday in the city of Westbrook, Maine, where workers have been assessing landslides that blocked the Presumpscot River. Westbrook Fire Chief Andrew Turcotte said Thursday that the...
Aug 31 2020 // Public health officials in Vermont said the state is considering becoming the second state to mandate flu shots as a way to ease the burden of influenza amid the coronavirus pandemic.Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine...
Aug 26 2020 // Four overnight camps in Maine successfully stemmed the spread of the novel coronavirus and conducted sessions with over 1,000 attendees from 41 states and international locations this summer, according to a new report...
Aug 14 2020 // Twenty fire departments in Maine are getting gas detection meters from the state to help prevent another disaster like the Farmington gas leak explosion. The explosion last September killed Farmington fire Capt. Michael...
Jul 22 2020 // BroGue Insurance & Financial Services has added to its team of insurance professionals in Bangor, Maine.Joining its staff are Licensed Sales Producer Amanda Wilbur and Sadie Kinney, Commercial Lines customer service...
Jun 29 2020 // Maine Superintendent of Insurance Eric Cioppa has reminded business owners of the importance of complying with the terms of their insurance policies as they begin the reopening process.As businesses reopen, Cioppa said...
Jun 18 2020 // In recognition of economic stress being experienced by many of its 18,000 Maine workers’ compensation insurance policyholders, Portland, Maine-based MEMIC’s board of directors has authorized the immediate...
Jun 3 2020 // Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa is encouraging all Mainers to consider purchasing flood insurance, even those who live outside of federally designated flood zones, as the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is...
Jun 2 2020 // Another 24,500 individuals have filed initial claims for unemployment benefits last week – more than double the number of claims the previous week, the Maine Department of Labor said Thursday.The large number of...
May 29 2020 // AK Insurance of Westbrook, Maine, recently joined Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast.AK Insurance was founded in April 2020 by owner Alex Kapothanasis...
May 18 2020 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection of the site of a paper mill blast could take several more months.OSHA has until six months after the date it entered the Pixell Specialty Solutions mill on April...
May 8 2020 // As states begin to lift restrictions on employers in various segments of the economy, MEMIC, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation insurance specialty company, has released an employer guide for...
Apr 28 2020 // Texas’ attorney general has accused the nation’s largest egg producer of price gouging during the coronavirus pandemic.A lawsuit filed by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that Cal-Maine Foods...
Apr 21 2020 // State and federal investigators began searching Thursday for the cause of a paper mill explosion that shook the ground and sent debris and a slurry of chemicals raining down on nearby cars and buildings.Elation over the...