All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 3 2011 // Maine insurance regulators say they recovered nearly $3.5 million for insurance consumers whose claims were underpaid in the state last year More than $1.5 million was recovered for consumers by the Bureau’s Property...
Feb 25 2011 // A survey of hundreds of miles of New England and mid-Atlantic coastline found that 68 percent of the beaches studied have eroded during the past 150 years, according to a report released this week.The average rate of...
Feb 7 2011 // Hylant Group, Swartzel AffiliatedOhio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant Group, and property/casualty insurance services provider Swartzel Affiliated Insurance Agency have merged. The companies’ announcement said the...
Jan 24 2011 // EncharterMassachusetts-based Encharter Insurance agency will open a fifth branch office, the latest in Simsbury, Connecticut. Encharter will sell personal lines coverage throughout the Farmington Valley, the agency said....
Jan 24 2011 // States across the Northeast continue to look at captive insurance companies as a potential source of new business — and tax revenue — but the continued growth of captives is treating some states better than...
Jan 11 2011 // Ohio Mutual Insurance Group (OMIG) has confirmed that its previously announced acquisition of Maine-based Casco Indemnity Company is complete. The transaction officially closed on Jan. 1, 2011.Casco Indemnity will be...
Jan 6 2011 // Maine has licensed two new workers’ comp insurers, one of them a new company that will begin writing this month, the state insurance department said.The first, Great Falls, which will begin offering policies this...
Jan 5 2011 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market.Also, availability does not...
Dec 31 2010 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci is requesting a damage assessment for the torrential rainstorm that deluged eastern Maine earlier this month.The Dec. 12 storm dropped 6 to 8 inches of rain in places, washing out local roads,...
Dec 29 2010 // A newspaper reporter is suing a Maine ski area two years after breaking her back while riding inside a giant ball down a ski trail for a story.Rebekah Metzler, of Brunswick, worked for the Sun Journal of Lewiston in June...
Nov 29 2010 // A 49-year-old Maine man charged with burning down a topless coffee shop wants his trial moved.Raymond Bellavance claims pretrial publicity will make it too hard to find an unbiased jury in Kennebec County. Bellavance is...
Nov 14 2010 // Fire investigators are warning of the dangers of smoking around oxygen tanks after two fires in southern Maine. According to the state fire marshal’s office, two separate fires earlier this month in southern Maine...
Nov 14 2010 // AIM, Quincy MutualA.I.M. Mutual Insurance Cos. and Quincy Mutual Group will join forces to create the Commercial Solutions Underwriting Alliance, a business arrangement designed to meet the commercial lines product needs...
Nov 14 2010 // Ohio Mutual, Casco IndemnityOhio Mutual Insurance Group (OMIG) agreed to acquire N.E. Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Casco Indemnity Co., a property and casualty insurer located in Saco, Maine. The transaction is...
Nov 2 2010 // Ohio Mutual Insurance Group (OMIG) has reached an agreement to acquire N.E. Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Casco Indemnity Co., a property and casualty insurer located in Saco, Maine. The transaction is expected to...
Nov 1 2010 // Maine’s supreme court says a workers’ compensation beneficiary isn’t eligible for additional benefits for a car crash that happened en route to a mediation meeting.Kurt Feiereisen, a NewPage employee, was...
Oct 19 2010 // Court officials say nearly 300 people continue to drive on Maine roads with suspended licenses after failing to be notified their licenses were suspended. Court officials told the Morning Sentinel that the drivers in...
Oct 18 2010 // Maine’s supreme court says a workers’ compensation beneficiary isn’t eligible for additional benefits for a car crash that happened en route to a mediation meeting. Kurt Feiereisen, a NewPage employee,...
Aug 19 2010 // The City Council in Maine’s largest city has effectively put the kibosh on a young man’s golf cart transportation service on Peaks Island. Nineteen-year-old Matt Rand has offered rides in his golf cart in...
Jul 14 2010 // A Belfast, Maine, man is facing charges he set a Mercedes-Benz on fire and then posted photos of the burning vehicle on Facebook. Belfast police say 36-year-old Asgard Tarick Gilbert was arrested on a felony arson...