All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2017 // Nestle SA’s Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary ground water that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated areas, rather than from natural...
Aug 21 2017 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., headquartered in East Providence, R.I., has promoted Sean Cottrell and Elizabeth Lowe to senior vice presidents.Cottrell is the practice leader for the Human Service...
Aug 11 2017 // The family of a teenager who died in a hayride crash has settled a lawsuit against the farm owner who operated the Halloween attraction in 2014, the family lawyer said Wednesday.Money from the settlement in the wrongful...
Aug 1 2017 // MMG Insurance Company, a Presque Isle, Maine-headquartered regional property and casualty insurance company, has hired Derek Hochradel as vice president of commercial lines, effective July 31, 2017.“Growth of...
Jul 25 2017 // As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit...
Jul 18 2017 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has promoted Kelly Barden to the position of director of corporate communications.In this role, she is responsible for shaping and...
Jun 30 2017 // Clark Insurance, a Portland, Maine-headquartered, 100-percent employee owned agency, has hired Tim McCarty as the director of loss control services.McCarty has decades of national experience in the safety field. In his new...
Jun 23 2017 // A Massachusetts man who worked as a financial manager for a Maine boatyard has admitted to embezzling over $700,000 from the company.The Portland Press Herald reports 50-year-old Steven Nygren, of Salem, Mass., pleaded...
Jun 22 2017 // Bret Cote has been elected to the board of directors of Portland, Maine-based Clark Insurance, according to agency president G. Jeffrey Shaw.Cote joined the agency in 2007 and helped establish an office in Manchester,...
Jun 19 2017 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-based workers’ compensation specialist, has named company veteran Michael P. Bourque as its president and CEO to replace John T. Leonard, who is retiring later this year.Bourque,...
Jun 6 2017 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine-based subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., has acquired Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency, making it the 16th Massachusetts insurance agency to be purchased by Cross.Founded in 1903,...
May 25 2017 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine-headquartered subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., has promoted Eric Jermyn to president of Cross Employee Benefits. He will be based in Portland, Maine.In this new role, Jermyn’s...
May 23 2017 // Clark Insurance, a Portland, Maine-based independent insurance agency, has appointed Joshua Ellis and Joshua Fifield as senior account executives in the business insurance department of Clark Insurance.Ellis joined Clark...
May 19 2017 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-based workers’ compensation specialist, has named company veteran Michael P. Bourque as its president and CEO to replace John T. Leonard, who is retiring later this year.Bourque,...
Apr 27 2017 // A federal appeals court has upheld $250,000 in damages against Pan Am Railways, saying the company illegally retaliated against a Maine employee. The Portland Press Herald reports conductor Jason Raye told his supervisors...
Apr 10 2017 // State fire officials say two men have been charged with arson in connection with a fire that destroyed a large storage building in Etna, Maine. Officials say several smaller storage buildings for sale at Hill View Mini...
Apr 5 2017 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group, based in Portland, Maine, has announced the promotion of Karen Schwartz to the position of vice president of underwriting compliance.She is responsible for leading...
Apr 3 2017 // People across northern New England woke up to a foot of heavy, wet snow on parts of the region Saturday and conducted weekend business as more fell throughout the day.The storm caused power outages and numerous highway...
Mar 14 2017 // MMG Insurance Company, a regional property and casualty insurance company headquartered in Presque Isle, Maine, has promoted Steve Morgan to casualty claims manager, effective March 8, 2017.Morgan joined MMG in 2014 as the...
Feb 27 2017 // Clark Insurance, a Portland, Maine-headquartered independent insurance agency, has promoted two employees and hired one.Tricia Spencer has been promoted to business insurance department coordinator. Spencer initially...