All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2014 // Maine officials are encouraging residents to protect their homes against severe summer weather. Maine Gov. Paul LePage and Bureau of Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa say that the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane...
Jun 19 2014 // Bangor, Maine-based Cross Insurance announced it has purchased the naming rights of the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine.Cross Insurance, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in New England,...
Jun 19 2014 // Crime in Maine dropped 9.1 percent last year, a steep drop from the previous year and the biggest decline in 20 years, Maine Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Morris said Tuesday.The commissioner, joined by...
Jun 13 2014 // A Maine man who was awarded $200,000 by a jury in his malpractice suit filed after a doctor mistakenly told him he had an aggressive and fatal form of cancer won’t have to face another trial. The Maine Supreme...
Jun 5 2014 // A Maine man was sentenced this week in Aroostook County Superior Court to serve 42 months in jail, with all but one year suspended for workers’ compensation fraud.Workers’ comp insurer MEMIC — whose...
Jun 2 2014 // XL Group has named Michele Sansone as president of its North America property insurance business and head of its global risk engineering division, XL GAPS.Reporting to Joseph Tocco, chief executive of XL Insurance’s...
May 16 2014 // Acadia Insurance, a Westbrook, Maine-based subsidiary of W.R. Berkley Corp., promoted David LeBlanc to senior vice president, chief underwriting and marketing officer; he will be based in Acadia’s home office in...
May 15 2014 // Bill PikeSatellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of independent property/casualty insurance agencies in the Northeast, has hired Bill Pike as regional vice president of New Hampshire and Maine. In this...
May 13 2014 // Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. and three of its employees have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the derailment and explosion of a train in Lac-Megantic last year, Quebec’s...
Apr 21 2014 // An Aroostook County jury in Maine has convicted a northern Maine man of theft of more than $10,000 in workers’ compensation benefits.Prosecutors said last Friday that 63-year-old Stephen Tucker Sr. received more than...
Apr 21 2014 // Jerry HourihanAmerican International Group (AIG) has named Jerry Hourihan as president of Private Client Group for the U.S. and Canada. He will report to Ralph Mucerino, CEO of Consumer Regional, Americas.Hourihan will be...
Apr 8 2014 // Maine Governor Paul R. LePage and Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa recently announced that the Bureau of Insurance now offers new online resources for consumers who want to compare auto and homeowners insurance...
Apr 7 2014 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-based workers’ compensation carrier, has announced the promotion of Eileen M. Fongemie and Deborah E. Lander.Fongemie has been named director of finance. In this capacity, she will...
Apr 4 2014 // Clark Insurance, an employee-owned independent insurance agency with offices in Maine and New Hampshire, hired Kristine Sullivan as a senior account executive in the business insurance department.Kristine SullivanSullivan...
Apr 4 2014 // Acadia Insurance, a Westbrook, Maine-based subsidiary of W. R. Berkley Corp., announced two appointments in its specialty marine unit.Mark GroenheideAcadia Insurance said Mark Groenheide will assume the role of assistant...
Apr 2 2014 // Thousands of Maine homeowners and businesses could see their rates for flood insurance rise as the federal government attempts to put the troubled National Flood Insurance Program back on sound financial footing.Most of...
Mar 28 2014 // Portland, Maine-based workers’ compensation carrier MEMIC has announced the promotion of Eileen M. Fongemie and Deborah E. Lander.Eileen M. FongemieFongemie has been named director of finance. In this capacity, she...
Mar 21 2014 // G. Jeffrey ShawClark Insurance, an employee-owned independent insurance agency with offices in Maine and New Hampshire, promoted G. Jeffrey Shaw to executive vice president from vice president. He will also continue as the...
Mar 11 2014 // A proposal from the federal government to make more specific workplace safety data available online could violate individuals’ privacy and embarrass employers and workers, Maine officials said.Republican Gov. Paul...
Feb 25 2014 // A.M. Best announced that it has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings of “a” of Balboa Insurance...