All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 25 2014 // Clark Insurance, an employee-owned independent insurance agency with offices in Maine and New Hampshire, announced the following new employees in its Portland, Maine, office. Pamela Cyr will serve as an account manager in...
Sep 11 2014 // Willis Group Holdings plc announced today that Willis Re Inc., its North American reinsurance business, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of SurePoint Reinsurance Advisors, LLC, in Portland,...
Aug 22 2014 // Economic growth in New England has been slowest in Connecticut and Maine since the end of the recession in 2009, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday.Quarterly gross domestic product — the value of...
Aug 19 2014 // A Maine woman who says she suffered a third-degree burn from a heated seat in Chevrolet Suburban has sued General Motors.Emma Verrill says in her suit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine, that GM failed to...
Aug 18 2014 // Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage and Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa cautioned consumers and businesses that recent severe weather and flooding in Maine, throughout the Northeast and in other parts of the country...
Aug 15 2014 // Acadia Insurance, a W. R. Berkley Co., has launched a new insurance policy for small businesses in Maine and New Hampshire called AcadiaAdvantage. The product is expected to be available in additional states this...
Aug 15 2014 // The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer in Portland, Maine, hired Steven Crobar and Margaret Templeton as senior production underwriters to serve its agents in the state of New York.Together, Crobar and...
Aug 4 2014 // Julie ElwellClark Insurance, an employee-owned independent insurance agency with offices in Maine and New Hampshire, appointed Julie Elwell as account executive within the firm’s employee benefits group. Elwell, with...
Aug 4 2014 // A new Maine law that aims to crack down on people with multiple drunken driving violations is among several that kicked in last Friday, roughly three months after the Democratic-led Legislature wrapped up its short,...
Aug 4 2014 // Aon, National Flood ServicesAon Affinity, the consumer, association and program business of Aon Risk Solutions, has completed its acquisition of StoneRiver National Flood Services Inc. and related entities from StoneRiver...
Aug 4 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
Jul 31 2014 // Nearly 20,000 Maine customers of health insurer Aetna are getting premium rebates because a provision in the Affordable Care Act limits what insurance companies can spend on administrative costs. The rebates for 2013...
Jul 28 2014 // Bangor, Maine-based Cross Insurance has appointed Laurie A. Noel as vice president of personal lines. Noel, whose primary responsibility is to focus on the profitability and growth of personal lines for the entire...
Jul 21 2014 // Bangor, Maine-based Cross Insurance has acquired Merchant, Needham & Associates Insurance, an independent insurance agency based in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Originally...
Jul 21 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the United States as a whole ticked up...
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
Jul 7 2014 // Utility crews in Maine have been busy restoring electricity to thousands of customers over the weekend and on Monday.Last Saturday, remnants of Hurricane Arthur brought high winds and heavy rains to the state. At the peak...
Jul 7 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37. 5...
Jul 2 2014 // Bangor, Maine-based Cross Insurance has announced the formation of a healthcare practice unit. The agency said its healthcare practice will focus on primary and excess medical malpractice coverage for traditional first...
Jun 26 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37.5...