All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2022 // The company featured on the cable TV show “Maine Cabin Masters” has settled claims that it violated lead safety and exposure rules on some of its renovations.The settlement reached by the U.S. Environmental...
Oct 17 2022 // A storm packing strong winds and heavy rain lashed the New England coast on Friday with the greatest impact in Maine, where more than 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. The storm brought a gust of 72 mph (116 kph),...
Oct 17 2022 // Insurance agents and brokers are often sued by clients for allegedly failing to procure for the client coverage that met the client’s needs. In determining the agent’s culpability, an essential question is...
Oct 13 2022 // PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The owner of a former chemical plant that dumped mercury into the Penobscot River must pay at least $187 million to remove the contamination in a resolution to a decades-long legal battle.A federal...
Sep 26 2022 // Maine has opted out of a $440 million multistate settlement with electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs in objection to certain conditions.Maine would have received roughly $11 million over six to 10 years under the...
Sep 8 2022 // One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard.Maine created one of the...
Sep 1 2022 // Parents of children enrolled in Maine religious schools fought for years — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — for the state to treat tuition reimbursements the same as other private schools.But only one of the...
Aug 24 2022 // BANGOR, Maine — The federal government will pay $8 million to settle a claim that a federally funded clinic failed to alert a mother or authorities of signs of abuse of a 6-month-old boy.Alexandria Orduna, of Brewer,...
Aug 12 2022 // Cross Insurance reported it has acquired Maine Insurance Agency of Portland.The acquisition of Maine Insurance Agency, a fifth-generation family-owned business, expands the coastal region division of Cross. Founded in...
Aug 3 2022 // A truck driver is expected to accept responsibility for causing the death of a state police detective who was struck by a dislodged tire as he was assisting a driver alongside Interstate 95.Scott Willett, 55, of Patten,...
Jul 29 2022 // Hilb Group Founder Takes Helm at Choice FinancialVirginia insurance agency Choice Financial Group has appointed insurance veteran Robert J. Hilb as chief executive officer following the retirement of J. Richard Braun,...
Jul 12 2022 // Nine health care workers who sued Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have until Money to reveal their identities.The workers have so far remained anonymous, but on Thursday, a...
Jul 6 2022 // A Maine superfund mining site is receiving $21 million in Environmental Protection Agency funding to expedite contamination cleanup efforts. The Callahan Mine superfund site in Brooksville originally received $9 million...
Jun 28 2022 // Religious schools got what they wanted when the Supreme Court allowed them to participate in a state tuition program.But the state attorney general said the ruling will be for naught unless the schools are willing to abide...
Jun 24 2022 // An independent insurance agency in Millinocket, Maine has lost three of its carrier partners and continues to face backlash on social media and in its community after posting a racially-charged sign on its door on Monday,...
Jun 20 2022 // The first lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland since Maine took away a limitation on claims of child sexual abuse were filed last week.Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed a law last year that allowed...
Jun 10 2022 // The state of Maine is paying $395,000 to a former corrections officer to settle her claims of harassment and discrimination.Autumn Dinsmore resigned as a corrections officer this month as part of the settlement of her...
Jun 8 2022 // ROCKLAND, Maine — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a worker who was trapped when a structure collapsed. Workers were demolishing an attached garage when the structure...
May 27 2022 // ALFRED, Maine —Three FedEx delivery vehicles traveling single file crashed into each other, sending one driver to the hospital and tying up traffic, officials said. The delivery vehicles collided with each other when...
May 18 2022 // Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said the state is preparing for a lawsuit against manufacturers of so-called forever chemicals.Frey said at the Democratic State Convention last weekend that steps are being taken to...