All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2006 // A Maine lawsuit brought by the mother of a 14-year-old runner who died while competing in a cross-country race has ended in a $100,000 settlement.School Adminstrative District 34 agreed to the settlement with the estate of...
Jan 22 2006 // Bollinger, MLW ServicesBollinger Inc. has acquired MLW Services Inc. of New York. The principals of MLW, Andrew Marks, president and CEO, Bert Linder, executive vice president and Chuck Weisblum, chairman, will continue in...
Jan 2 2006 // TD Banknorth Inc. has finalized its acquisition of the business of Boothby & Bartlett Company, a 145-year old Central Maine insurance agency in Waterville, through its insurance subsidiary, TD Banknorth Insurance...
Jan 2 2006 // Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined the P/C team at...
Jan 1 2006 // Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined the P/C team at...
Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light.But much of the...
Dec 23 2005 // A dispute between the health insurance industry and Maine’s Dirigo Health program continues to escalate, as a trade group representing four large health insurers files a second lawsuit against the 2-year-old...
Dec 22 2005 // Oil-storage tanks in South Portland and paper mills in other parts of Maine would be among the facilities subject to additional safety standards if federal legislation to be introduced this week is enacted.U.S. Sen. Susan...
Dec 19 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president.They also elected regulators from Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico to key positions at...
Dec 19 2005 // In Chicago, State Commissioners Elect Maine’s Iuppa as PresidentMembers of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president at their winter...
Dec 18 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president.They also elected regulators from Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico to key positions at...
Dec 18 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president at their winter meeting in Chicago.In other business, the NAIC awarded the insurance...
Dec 15 2005 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance has modified the request of the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance for an average 1.8 percent increase in workers’ compensation rates for policy year 2006 to 1.2...
Dec 13 2005 // Maine’s Bureau of Insurance has characterized legislation drafted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies to correct a state Supreme Judicial Court decision regarding mandated uninsured motorist...
Dec 8 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected regulators from Maine, Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico as the organization’s 2006 officers during the Association’s Winter National...
Dec 4 2005 // TD Banknorth, Boothby & BartlettTD Banknorth Inc. is expanding its insurance presence in central Maine by purchasing Boothby & Bartlett Company, a community insurance agency in Waterville, Maine. The acquisition...
Nov 30 2005 // A health insurance industry group this week appealed a state regulatory decision that provides a critical source of funding for Maine’s Dirigo universal health insurance program.The Maine Association of Health Plans...
Nov 28 2005 // TD Banknorth Inc. announced is expanding its insurance presence in central Maine by purchasing Boothby & Bartlett Company, a community insurance agency in Waterville, Maine. The acquisition is scheduled to close in...
Nov 28 2005 // A federal jury has awarded a former marine engineer from Waterville, Maine whose fall on the job left him a paraplegic more than $5 million, but then reduced the award after determining his negligence was a factor in the...
Nov 28 2005 // The owner of a fire equipment company in Buxton, Maine has been sentenced in U.S. District Court to two months imprisonment for his role in falsifying fire extinguisher tests.Dale Nason, 49, who pleaded guilty last summer...