All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2011 // Most states in the northeastern region reported deteriorating workers’ compensation underwriting results last year, according to latest data from A.M. Best.Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maine and Rhode Island...
Oct 6 2011 // TD Insurance has appointed Karen Nash as assistant vice president and account administration manager in employee benefits in Portland, Maine. Nash will manage a staff of customer service agents who service employer group...
Sep 19 2011 // OneBeacon, InterboroOneBeacon Insurance Group said it is selling its high risk personal auto insurance business, AutoOne, to Interboro Holdings Inc. of New York. AutoOne, formed in 2001, serves the automobile assigned risk...
Sep 13 2011 // Maine Governor Paul LePage has chosen Eric Cioppa to be the next superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance.Cioppa has been serving as acting superintendent since June when former Superintendent Mila Kofman resigned...
Aug 31 2011 // Lewiston, Maine-based Northeast Bank Insurance Group has been acquired by local agencies in two separate transactions effective Sept. 1.The Varney Agency, of Bangor, Maine, will purchase the assets of nine Northeast Bank...
Aug 10 2011 // Highway deaths in Maine are down for the fourth year in a row. The Bureau of Public Safety said 61 people have died on Maine roads so far this year. That’s down from 88 deaths at this time last year. Thirteen...
Aug 1 2011 // Wholesaler Swett & Crawford has added Ricky Dawson to its casualty staff in New York. Dawson, who has a background in both insurance wholesale brokerage and underwriting, previously served as a wholesale broker with...
Jul 19 2011 // A jury has awarded a Maine student $300,000 in a lawsuit she filed against a nursing school that expelled her after she complained of sexual harassment by a male instructor.The InterCoast Career Institute, a...
Jul 18 2011 // The debate over whether to mandate fire sprinklers in new homes is heating up in Maine.South Portland City Council is expected to take up the issue later this summer. If it passes, South Portland would join Portland,...
Jul 18 2011 // A small earthquake across Maine’s Blue Hill peninsula prompted a handful of calls to law enforcement officials, but no damages were reported. According to the Weston Observatory at Boston College, the magnitude 2.3...
Jul 11 2011 // A small earthquake across Maine’s Blue Hill peninsula prompted a handful of calls to law enforcement officials, but no damages were reported. According to the Weston Observatory at Boston College, the magnitude 2.3...
Jul 4 2011 // Anthony A. Ambrose has been promoted to vice president and senior broker at New York-based wholesale broker Russell Bond. Ambrose joined Russell Bond in 1994 and is currently responsible for financial institutions, medical...
Jun 29 2011 // A Maine man is going to get $725,000 as part of a police brutality settlement that was reached as the case was set to go to trial in federal court.Ronald Eaton of Deer Isle had sued several Hancock County and Ellsworth...
Jun 28 2011 // The hallways of Maine’s State House were jammed with irate, screaming protesters, and scores of state workers pitched a tent “union city” in a park across the street.The already cool relations between the...
Jun 24 2011 // After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates.Citigroup, which...
Jun 24 2011 // Maine-based Great Falls Insurance Co., a newly licensed insurer specializing workers’ compensation coverage has named Gary Hall as president and CEO. Hall has three decades of insurance experience, with a majority of...
Jun 20 2011 // A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an all-terrain vehicle accident. A Penobscot County jury on Monday granted the award to 49-year-old Paula...
Jun 16 2011 // A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an all-terrain vehicle accident. A Penobscot County jury granted the award to 49-year-old Paula Braley, of Lee,...
Jun 15 2011 // Federal workplace safety officials are proposing that a Lewiston, Maine roofing contractor be fined $243,000 for alleged safety violations at its work sites.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the...
Jun 2 2011 // Eric Cioppa will serve as acting superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance, following the departure of Mila Kofman last month. Eric Cioppa Cioppa most recently served as deputy superintendent. He joined the Bureau of...