Latest Maine Headlines

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New Restrictions for Maine Drivers

Nov 30 2008 // The second of two Maine laws adopted in April to tighten regulations for getting a driver’s license has gone into effect. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap says the new law requires license applicants to show...

New Restrictions for Maine Drivers

Nov 30 2008 // The second of two Maine laws adopted in April to tighten regulations for getting a driver’s license has gone into effect. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap says the new law requires applicants to show they’re...

Injured Maine Man Wins $5M Award for Electrical Accident

Nov 19 2008 // A Maine man has been awarded nearly $5 million in damages for injuries he sustained six years ago in an electrical accident at a Penobscot boatyard.Bryan Smith, now 24 and formerly from Bucksport, was operating a crane to...

Minor Earthquake Felt in Maine

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...

New Restrictions in Effect for Maine Driver’s License Applicants

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...

New Markets

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...

New Markets

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...

Insurance Affordability: Three East Coast Regulators Weigh In

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...

Maine Court Asked to Nix Church Immunity in Abuse Case

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...

Maine Investigators Seek Arsonist

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...

Insurance Trade Group Honors U.S. Sen. Collins of Maine

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...

Insurers, Agents Urge Coastal Wind Policy from Texas to Maine

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...

Maine’s July Traffic Deaths on Record Pace

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...

New Markets

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:...

MEMIC’s Prue Elected Maine CPCU President

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...

Man Injured in Another Wrong-Way Crash in Maine

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...

New Markets

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...

Privacy Lawsuits Against Maine Grocer Consolidated by Federal Court

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....

New Markets

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...

Declarations

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...