All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2023 // A Massachusetts seafood business said Thursday that it did not discriminate against an immigrant worker who complained to the state.The worker, Paula Fortes, is a Black woman who immigrated to the U.S. from Cape Verde, an...
May 11 2023 // Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a measure that would curtail the use of geographical location in the rating of private passenger auto insurance, a factor that critics say now penalizes urban and minority...
May 10 2023 // Tobacco company Philip Morris USA must pay $37 million to a Massachusetts woman who developed cancer from smoking Marlboro Lights cigarettes, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a unanimous decision.The...
May 5 2023 // A Massachusetts man who spent 32 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of setting a fire that killed eight people will receive $13 million from the city where he was arrested.“One of the things for me to...
May 5 2023 // The body of a worker who died in an explosion at a Newburyport, Massachusetts chemical plant has been recovered and identified.The deceased has been identified by his family as Jack O’Keefe of Methuen. The body was...
May 4 2023 // One worker is missing and the building is severely damaged after an early morning explosion at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in a business park in Newburyport, Massachusetts.Five workers were in the building at the time...
May 3 2023 // A Holbrook, Massachusetts man has been found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in the Norfolk House of Correction for damaging luxury cars bought under false pretenses in order to collect insurance...
May 3 2023 // Massachusetts’ highest court on Wednesday will consider whether to revive a state fiduciary duty rule that was central to an enforcement action securities regulators filed against the online brokerage Robinhood.A...
Apr 28 2023 // A federal administrative law judge has determined that the manager of Fuller Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts exposed employees to workplace violence without adequate protections in 2019, particularly at times when...
Apr 26 2023 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that 27,000 people who pled guilty or were convicted of drunk driving from June 1, 2011 to April 18, 2019, are entitled to have their cases reconsidered due to the state...
Apr 13 2023 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports that it has acquired the business of Thomas J. Woods Insurance Agency, Inc. of Worcester, Massachusetts. TJ Woods was founded in 1949, and is a property/casualty agency,...
Apr 11 2023 // When Ashoke and Vinita Rampuria’s son returned home after taking a year off from college, to complete his course work, he didn’t seem like himself.“He was unable to complete tasks. He was lying on the...
Apr 6 2023 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation rates will fall an average 10.2% starting July 1, a considerably bigger reduction than the industry recommended.Insurance Commissioner Gary Anderson signed off on the cut that will...
Mar 31 2023 // Massachusetts regulators have opened an investigation into sales of company stock by top executives at First Republic Bank in the weeks leading up to the recent banking turmoil.Massachusetts’ Secretary of the...
Mar 14 2023 // A Framingham, Massachusetts man was sentenced this week for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.Gustaf Njei was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 27 months in prison and...
Mar 7 2023 // The former manager of a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles branch has agreed to plead guilty to federal extortion charges for allegedly taking bribes and in exchange for issuing passing scores on learner’s...
Mar 1 2023 // A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and disease contamination provisions of its property insurance policy.U.S. District...
Feb 27 2023 // National insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports it acquired the business of Durfee Buffinton Insurance Agency, Inc. of Fall River, Massachusetts. Terms of the December 31, 2022 transaction were not...
Feb 23 2023 // A Waltham-based construction contractor, Devens-based plumbing contractor, and Woburn-based demolition company will pay up to $325,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations of illegal asbestos work during a renovation...
Feb 10 2023 // A Roman Catholic Diocese that covers central Massachusetts has published a new report about clergy sexual abuse of minors between 1950 and 2022, but unlike similar reports released by many other dioceses, the report did...