All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2008 // People in western Maine were given a slight jolt Thursday when a minor earthquake struck in Rumford. According to the Weston Observatory at Boston College, the earthquake happened at 5:26 a.m. and had a magnitude of...
Nov 17 2008 // The second of two state laws adopted in April to tighten regulations for getting a driver’s license goes into effect today in Maine. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap called a news conference Friday to raise...
Nov 16 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Employer Stop Loss Market Detail: Markel...
Nov 2 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Eliminate Forced Placed Coverage Market...
Oct 28 2008 // For many East Coast homeowners, the difficulty lies not in finding insurance, but paying for it. And that so-called affordability problem affects nearly every state along the coastline.Given their recent history with...
Sep 18 2008 // Maine’s supreme court is being asked to overturn the concept of charitable immunity in a church abuse lawsuit.A lawyer told the Maine Supreme Judicial Court that the Roman Catholic bishop knew the Rev. Raymond...
Sep 17 2008 // Fire investigators say they have questioned a “person of interest” in a weekend arson fire in Milo, Maine that burned a large portion of the town’s downtown. But no arrests have been made in the Sunday...
Sep 11 2008 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) named Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, as its Federal Legislator of the Year. “Senator Collins has a great understanding and appreciation of the...
Aug 4 2008 // Travelers, Nationwide Mutual and two leading national insurance producer organizations are supporting a plan they say will make private windstorm insurance more affordable and available in coastal areas.Federal legislation...
Jul 21 2008 // Traffic fatalities in Maine this July are on pace to be among the highest on record.Seventeen people lost their lives on the state’s roads as of Friday, July 18, an average of about one death a day. Spokesman Stephen...
Jul 7 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.International Energy Package Market Detail:...
Jun 30 2008 // Steve Prue has been named as president of the Maine Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society. Prue, an executive underwriter with workers’ compensation insurer MEMIC since 1998, attained...
Jun 16 2008 // State police say a Waterville man was injured after crashing his car on I-95 in the latest wrong-way crash on a Maine interstate.State Trooper Jeffrey Beach says the driver, 29-year-old Richard Crowley, suffered injuries...
Jun 16 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Custom Home Builders Market Detail: Lemac...
Jun 11 2008 // More than 20 lawsuits stemming from a massive security breach of Hannaford Bros. Co.’s computer system have been consolidated and assigned to a federal court in Maine.The case will be heard by U.S. District Judge D....
Jun 2 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Energy Risks Market Detail: MarketScout has...
May 19 2008 // Complex Investigation“They’re going to treat it as suspicious until they find out it isn’t.” —Norwich, Connecticut Police Capt. Timothy Menard, commenting on the investigation into a massive fire...
May 19 2008 // A federal court has blocked a Maine woman from suing her employer for sex discrimination after she claimed she was denied a promotion because of her childcare responsibilities for her four children including 6-year-old...
May 15 2008 // The state supreme court has set aside a jury’s verdict that the Maine Department of Transportation was partly to blame in a hit-and-run crash because it took too long to paint stripes on Route 302.A jury awarded $2.9...
May 12 2008 // President Bush declared a northern Maine county a federal disaster on Friday after historic flooding that destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes this month.The declaration makes federal assistance available in Aroostook...