All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2018 // Two insurers on Maine’s individual health insurance market are requesting lower-than-expected rate increases for 2019.Portland Press Herald reports the insurers are requesting average rate increases of over 9 percent...
May 21 2018 // Woodruff Sawyer has expanded its New England office’s leadership structure due to growth it has seen in the past two years.As part of this initiative, it has positioned its three leaders in roles that designed to...
May 15 2018 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-based workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Lara Heal to director of Managed Care Services as well as promoted Karen Flaherty to director of Financial Operations and...
May 14 2018 // A landlord who was sentenced to prison following a fire that killed six people in Maine has agreed to pay close to $300,000 in settlements to the victims’ families.The Bangor Daily News reports Gregory Nisbet will...
May 8 2018 // MEMIC, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Barrett Parks to the position of safety management consultant. Parks has worked as a logger, equipment operator, technical high...
Mar 16 2018 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Michael Carmody to claims director of the northeast region, which includes MEMIC’s New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York offices. Carmody began...
Mar 7 2018 // Milliman Inc., a global consulting and actuarial firm, has hired Samie Moore to its Health & Welfare group as an end-to-end life, absence and disability (LAD) consultant.Moore, formerly of Mercer and Hewitt, is an...
Feb 26 2018 // Maine businesses could save as much as $27 million this year thanks to a projected decline in workers’ compensation insurance claims.Maine Superintendent of Insurance Eric Cioppa said he approved a 12 percent average...
Jan 26 2018 // The backers of a failed multimillion-dollar campaign to build a third casino in Maine are suing the state ethics commission over a $500,000 fine.The Portland Press Herald reports casino entrepreneur Shawn Scott’s...
Jan 25 2018 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation carrier, has been ranked the top workers’ compensation company in the U.S. by the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and...
Jan 19 2018 // To support growth within the Georgia market, workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has announced the promotion of Ben Cavallaro to the position of production underwriter.A native of Portland, Maine, and...
Jan 19 2018 // Some drivers in Maine say their vehicles were damaged when they purchased fuel that was in the wrong pumps at a gas station.The Kennebec Journal reports all of the drivers filled their tanks at a Mobil station in...
Jan 11 2018 // Maine lawmakers on Tuesday considered a proposal to extend a ban on retail sales of marijuana until May 1 to give the state more time to craft rules about legal pot.Lawmakers in the state are trying once again to sort out...
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry DaysJan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, Calif.California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA)Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.netThe 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance ConferenceJan 15-19...
Jan 4 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the states of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the...
Jan 3 2018 // Two new laws aimed at health care costs are coming into effect.Starting the new year, Maine health insurance carriers will face new requirements under a law backed by Republican Sen. Rodney Whittemore. Carriers must allow...
Jan 3 2018 // A new law aimed at addressing Maine’s opioid crisis is coming into effect as advocates demand more urgency.Law enforcement officials say 376 Mainers died of a drug overdose in 2016. Republican Rep. Deborah Sanderson...
Dec 29 2017 // As 2017 wraps up, Insurance Journal is looking back on some of its most popular stories of the year while preparing for what is ahead for the insurance industry in 2018.These are just a few of many topics Insurance Journal...
Dec 11 2017 // BroGue Insurance & Financial Services, a Bangor, Maine-based independent insurance agency, has hired Timothy Guerin as an insurance agent.Guerin’s insurance sales career began with Liberty Mutual Insurance....
Dec 6 2017 // Lynam Insurance Agency, a full-service, independent insurance agency based in Bar Harbor, Maine, has hired John Jagger as an insurance agent and agency manager. Jagger started his insurance sales career with Liberty Mutual...