All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 19 2019 // BroGue Insurance & Financial Services has promoted Heather Kinney to agency manager and hired Derek Cole.Kinney began her insurance career in 1990 and has been a licensed agent since 1999, with experience in both...
Feb 5 2019 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group promoted Ben Delcourt to underwriting manager and Shae-Li Fendler to underwriting analyst manager.Delcourt manages the underwriting team, which represents more than 60...
Jan 7 2019 // From big data and blockchain to autonomous vehicles and new technology that isn’t yet on the radar, “change is inevitable” for the insurance industry in 2019.“Insurance companies, insurance...
Dec 17 2018 // The Maine company that employed a roofer who fell to his death has faced several fines lodged by federal safety authorities.The Portland Press Herald reports that Purvis Home Improvements has been ordered to pay over...
Nov 19 2018 // State insurance regulators have elected new officers of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The following officers will assume their duties on Jan. 1, 2019:President: Maine Insurance Superintendent...
Sep 11 2018 // A Maine lobster wholesaler is suing one of its owners, claiming he embezzled nearly $1.5 million worth of lobsters.Sea Salt, which is a Saco-based restaurant and wholesale lobster company, alleges Matthew Bellerose created...
Aug 28 2018 // The owner of a Maine apartment where six people died in a fire has begun serving his jail sentence for a safety code violation. Fifty-two-year-old Gregory Nisbet reported to Cumberland County Jail Wednesday. He was...
Aug 13 2018 // When police investigators tried to figure out what caused a multi-vehicle crash that killed an elderly woman in Morton, Illinois, last month, they looked to the sky for help.Like a growing number of police agencies...
Aug 9 2018 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Kilbride & Harris Insurance Services LLC. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Located in South Portland, Maine, Kilbride &...
Aug 2 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has obligated more than $1 million in assistance to Maine stemming from a severe storm and flooding last fall. The agency says the storm impacted 13 of the state’s 16...
Aug 2 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board says a twin-engine propeller aircraft reported a loss of power right before a crash that killed three people. A spokesman for the NTSB said the plane, called an Aerostar AEST, was...
Jul 16 2018 // The Maine Fire Marshal’s office says the blaze that destroyed two buildings and damaged several others at a historic fairground was accidental.Fire investigators said that the fire at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds was...
Jul 13 2018 // To support continued growth within the New Hampshire market, Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Douglass Pitts to associate underwriter. Before joining The...
Jul 10 2018 // The state of Maine is locked in a legal battle with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a pair of American Indian tribes about the way clean water standards apply in and around tribal lands.Maine is arguing in the...
Jul 6 2018 // Maine’s Republican governor has vetoed bills ranging from insurance coverage for hearing aids to help for homeless opioid users.Gov. Paul LePage vetoed 13 bills Tuesday. Lawmakers are set to return Monday facing...
Jul 2 2018 // The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that employers in the state are not required to reimburse employees for their use of medical marijuana under the Maine workers’ compensation system because federal law preempts state...
Jul 2 2018 // “Prosecuted or not, the fact remains that Twin Rivers would be forced to commit a federal crime if it complied with the directive of the Workers’ Compensation Board.”— Maine Supreme Court Associate...
Jun 28 2018 // A judge has ruled in favor of a Missouri-based brewery in a lawsuit alleging the company copied the name and can design of a Maine-based brewery’s signature export ale.U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled in...
Jun 19 2018 // The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that employers in the state are not required to reimburse employees for their use of medical marijuana under the Maine workers’ compensation system because federal law preempts state...
Jun 18 2018 // FPI Management, a property company in California, wants to hire dozens of people. Factories from New Hampshire to Michigan need workers. Hotels in Las Vegas are desperate to fill jobs.Those employers and many others are...