All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2006 // According to the third annual “Most Secure U.S. Places to Live” rankings from Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, the most secure location to live in the United States is St. George, Utah.The rankings,...
Dec 4 2006 // The insurance subsidiary of Northeast Bank, Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc. has acquired the Palmer Insurance Agency of Turner, Maine.Palmer has six employees and generated $4 million in gross premiums over the past...
Nov 22 2006 // The administrator of a Canton nursing home said a plan to address “serious deficiencies” cited by state overseers has been submitted to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.The filing follows an...
Oct 26 2006 // Maine’s highest court this week reinstated a lawsuit targeting VIP Inc. over a fatal collision caused by one of its employees, but Chief Justice Leigh Saufley criticized the ruling as harmful to the state’s...
Oct 25 2006 // Additional aftershocks are possible in the days and weeks ahead after a series of four small earthquakes shook the BBar Harbor, Maine area last Sunday.The tremors were normal aftershock activity from an Oct. 2 quake with a...
Oct 20 2006 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance confirmed that typical workers compensation premiums will not be going up for 2007.The department reported that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) will not be filing a...
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, everyone is also...
Sep 25 2006 // Miami insurance agent Alex Soto has been inaugurated as the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with Robert E. Fulwider and C. Brett Nilsson assuming the...
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, all of us are also...
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, all of us are also...
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, all of us are also...
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, all of us are also...
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, everyone is also...
Sep 25 2006 // Miami insurance agent Alex Soto has been inaugurated as the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with Robert E. Fulwider and C. Brett Nilsson assuming the...
Sep 22 2006 // Maine-based TD Banknorth Insurance Agency, Inc. announced several personnel moves, including the promotion of Ellen L. Dupuis to senior vice president in the Personal Insurance Division in South Portland, Maine. As a...
Aug 31 2006 // A federal jury has awarded $4.2 million to a Sanford woman whose 48-year-old husband was killed three years ago in a workplace accident involving a forklift truck, but the amount she stands to receive will be considerably...
Aug 22 2006 // The family of a Sanford man killed in an industrial accident blames the manufacturer of a forklift for a design that allowed the man to become pinned when he backed up under a shelving unit.An inexpensive adaptation could...
Aug 17 2006 // ACE announced from its London office that Giles Ward has been appointed Director of its operations in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), effective from September 16th. He will be based in the newly established...
Aug 9 2006 // A Superior Court judge has rejected an appeal of last fall’s decision by Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa that Maine’s Dirigo Health Agency initiatives produced savings of $44 million in the...
Aug 6 2006 // A federal jury in Portland, Maine deliberated about 30 minutes before ruling in favor of Wendy’s restaurant chain in a lawsuit filed by a Standish woman who claimed a Wendy’s hamburger made her violently...