All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2008 // A Maine lawmaker says the state has the highest boating fatality rate in New England, and he wants to do something about it. Rep. Thom Watson of Bath is proposing mandatory, one-time boating safety courses after a year in...
Dec 31 2007 // New leaders tackled old issues and the region battled fire and rain.1. No day at the beach Insurance markets for coastal properties continued to challenge insurers, agents, policymakers and property owners, despite an...
Dec 21 2007 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate an accident at an Irving Forest Products lumber mill in Dixfield, Maines where a worker lost part of his right hand.J.D. Irving spokeswoman Mary Keith says...
Dec 12 2007 // Maine’s Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lewiston-based Northeast Bank, continues to grow its footprint in Maine, this time in Thomaston, with the purchase of Hyler Agency.The Hyler...
Dec 3 2007 // Federal regulators have proposed that Bath Iron Works be fined $441,500 for violating safety standards at its shipyard in Bath, Maine.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said an inspection that began June 4...
Dec 3 2007 // Spence & Mathews Insurance is the latest insurance agency to join Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maine-based Northeast Bank. Founded in 1935, Spence & Mathews has 16 employees...
Nov 14 2007 // Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lewiston, Me.-based Northeast Bank, has agreed to purchase Spence & Mathews Insurance. The deal is slated to close on November 30, 2007. Founded in...
Nov 9 2007 // Voters in Kennebunkport, Maine have tightened restrictions for issuing mass-gathering permits after three large peace demonstrations over the past two summers.The revisions approved on Election Day shift responsibility for...
Nov 5 2007 // High wind and heavy surf hit parts of the Northeast U.S. coast as the remnants of Hurricane Noel blustered northeastward across the open Atlantic.The wind and rain caused some coastal flooding, brought down tree limbs and...
Nov 2 2007 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance, an advisory rating organization for companies that offer workers’ comp insurance, is asking state regulators for an average rate decrease of 2.2 percent in Maine next...
Oct 29 2007 // A jury in Auburn, Maine last week awarded nearly $8 million to a brain-damaged 5-year-old boy and his mother in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a Lewiston hospital and one of its midwives.The verdict in favor of...
Oct 23 2007 // More than 8,000 independent agents and brokers assessed the performance of over 220 property and casualty carriers in Deep Customer Connections Inc.’s (DCC) 5th annual Ease of Doing Business (EDB) survey.MMG...
Oct 14 2007 // A two-year-old New Hampshire law that was supposed to speed up the processing of medical malpractice lawsuits has slowed things down instead.The law created special screening panels designed to encourage people to settle...
Oct 12 2007 // Not all medical injuries are malpractice.“It’s not easy to tell a patient, ‘You have a harm but it’s not anybody’s fault,”‘ says Marilyn Ashcroft, a medical injury screening panel...
Oct 8 2007 // Like other driving instructors across Maine, Dwight Hawkins has a new lesson to add to his course this fall: If you’re under 18 and behind the wheel, lose the cell phone.As of Sept. 20, a new Maine law will prohibit...
Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Oct 8 2007 // Like other driving instructors across Maine, Dwight Hawkins has a new lesson to add to his course this fall: If you’re under 18 and behind the wheel, lose the cell phone.As of Sept. 20, a new Maine law will prohibit...
Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Oct 8 2007 // PeopleThe Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins on...
Oct 3 2007 // MEMIC Indemnity Co., a member of The MEMIC Group, has recently earned authorization to write workers’ compensation insurance in Rhode Island, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado.The MEMIC Group can now offer...