All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2025 // Federal investigators are outlining the final moments of a plane crash last month in upstate New York that killed a family from Massachusetts heading to the Catskills to celebrate a birthday and the Passover holiday.The...
May 8 2025 // Connecticut-based Paragon Insurance Holdings announced that its specialty media and contingency platform, Reel Media Insurance Services, has acquired WISE Risk, a wholesaler for event-driven and specialty insurance...
May 6 2025 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited reported it has acquired the assets of Allegiant Global Partners, Inc. (AGP) of Boston.AGP is a health, welfare and risk consulting firm serving global employers. AGP...
Apr 16 2025 // An insurer erred in denying workers’ compensation benefits to a utility worker who contracted COVID-19 while on the job, a job the state had deemed as “essential” during the pandemic.The insurer had...
Apr 1 2025 // The Massachusetts seven-year statute of repose for medical malpractice claims does not shield professionals against separate acts of negligent treatment that allegedly occurred in the years after a disputed medical event...
Mar 27 2025 // REUTERS EXCLUSIVE Massachusetts’ top securities regulator has begun an investigation into trading platform Robinhood’s decision to launch a prediction-markets hub that allows users to bet on the outcomes of a...
Feb 11 2025 // Needham, Massachusetts-based Kaplansky Insurance Agency has been acquired by the national financial services firm Alera Group.This new partnership brings more than 100 agents to add to Alera Group’s property/casualty...
Jan 31 2025 // The Massachusetts standard auto policy does not require an insurer to pay inherent diminished value (IDV) to a claimant whose vehicle is damaged by one of its insureds.The Massachusetts Supreme Court in a 6-0 ruling has...
Jan 29 2025 // A worker died Tuesday after a house under construction in Massachusetts collapsed. According to local police, Mario Diaz Obando, 29, of Fall River, died when the house being built on Vine Street in Weymouth collapsed. Diaz...
Jan 21 2025 // Kaplansky Insurance has acquired two central Massachusetts insurance agencies and a third in the western part of the state.The agencies acquired are Buckley Insurance and Mobilio Insurance in Worcester and Pijar Insurance...
Jan 17 2025 // A Massachusetts man who sued his ex-girlfriend over her sharing an unflattering nude photo of him and accessing his personal online accounts without permission has had his $10,280 court award upheld.In December 2023, a...
Jan 10 2025 // Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey recently signed legislation increasing the minimum coverage limits of auto insurance for some mandatory coverages.These new limits will apply to policies issued or renewed on or after...
Jan 7 2025 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a $20 million jury award in a medical malpractice case that found three medical professionals caused a patient to have an above-the-knee amputation of his leg.In 2023, a...
Jan 2 2025 // The Massachusetts Legislature approved a bill Monday aimed at closing loopholes in the state’s health care market regulatory process exposed by the collapse of Steward Health Care.The bill is also designed to...
Dec 18 2024 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurers have filed for a 7.1% increase in average rates for industrial classes beginning July 1, 2025 — the first rate increase since 2016.Why an increase in 2025? According to...
Dec 17 2024 // Massachusetts law enforcement officials report that 12 individuals identified as stealing 63 high-end vehicles totaling more than $2.6 million have been arraigned.Another individual related to the investigation has an...
Dec 6 2024 // Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has issued citations against Northeast Foods LLC, a company which operates Burger King franchise locations across Massachusetts, for allegedly violating various state...
Nov 19 2024 // A man was arrested on suspicion of intentionally setting brush fires in Massachusetts during a time of dry conditions that have led to blazes throughout the Northeast, police said Monday.Police said they arrested the...
Nov 14 2024 // Massachusetts remains under a red flag warning as multiple brush fires continue to burn across the state.The warning issued by the National Weather Service indicates that the fires now burning are at high risk of spreading...
Nov 7 2024 // Massachusetts voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure that would allow ride-share drivers to unionize, becoming the first U.S. state to allow drivers for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft to do so.With 94% of...