All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 15 2022 // Xceedance, a global provider of technology and data services to insurance organizations, has open a new global headquarters in central Massachusetts in the city of Worcester. The company said the new Massachusetts office...
Sep 14 2022 // Massachusetts voters will get the chance to decide whether the state should reject a new law allowing immigrants in the country illegally to obtain state driver’s licenses.The secretary of the commonwealth’s...
Sep 7 2022 // Global insurance broker HUB International Ltd. has acquired the assets of James L. Miniter Insurance Agency, Inc.Located in Rockland, Massachusetts, Miniter Group is a provider of lending risk products and services in the...
Sep 6 2022 // A motel and its employees have no duty to prevent a guest’s suicide even when family members warn that the guest is a suicide risk.A Massachusetts Court of Appeals has ruled that while innkeepers may have an...
Aug 31 2022 // Insurance broker The Hilb Group reports it has acquired Massachusetts-based Cook & Company Insurance Services in Hanover.Cook & Co. offers health plan consulting and brokerage services to employers in New England,...
Aug 30 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently granted Massachusetts initial approval for a state-run safety and health plan for state and local government workers.The...
Aug 26 2022 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates acquired two Massachusetts agencies: Tarpey Insurance Group of Wakefield, and Rush-Kent Insurance Agency Inc. of Arlington, on August 1.Tarpey is a family-owned and operated...
Aug 25 2022 // Global insurance broker Hub International reports it has acquired the assets of Winter Harbor Insurance Group.Located in Woburn, Massachusetts, Winter Harbor Insurance Group is an independent insurance agency providing...
Aug 16 2022 // Officials in a Boston suburb are investigating a former city employee they say shut down the police website during a pay dispute.Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller said the former employee, who was the police department...
Aug 10 2022 // Eastern Insurance Group announced it has acquired the John T. Burns Insurance Agency in Newton, Massachusetts. Family-owned since 1892, Burns Insurance offers personal auto and home insurance from carriers including...
Aug 9 2022 // The Hilb Group reports that it has acquired Massachusetts-based Lighthouse Insurance Agency, further building on the company’s presence throughout New England.Based in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston,...
Aug 9 2022 // A Massachusetts police department whose officers are accused of wrongfully arresting a Black man while pursuing a white suspect said Friday that an outside investigation found no evidence of racial profiling.The town...
Aug 5 2022 // Dale A. Frank Financial has become a member of Renaissance’s network of New England-based independent agencies. Dale A. Frank Financial is an independent financial services firm in Sunderland, Mass. that offers...
Aug 5 2022 // A suburban Boston police officer who was pursuing a white suspect pinned a 20-year-old Black man to the ground as he was walking home and placed a knee on the man’s neck despite having no evidence that he was...
Aug 2 2022 // The chief executive officer and president of a Taunton, Massachusetts insurance agency has pleaded guilty in connection with an embezzlement scheme that left client companies uninsured, according to state...
Aug 1 2022 // A lawsuit brought by a former altar boy who alleges he was sexually abused as a child in the 1960s by a now-deceased Roman Catholic bishop and other clergy can proceed, the highest court in Massachusetts said in a decision...
Jul 29 2022 // On-demand delivery drivers for Grubhub are subject to the company’s mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in overturning a lower court that found the...
Jul 29 2022 // Massachusetts lawmakers approved a sweeping abortion bill Tuesday aimed in part at building a firewall to protect access to the procedure after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month.The bill would...
Jul 28 2022 // The Hilb Group has acquired Massachusetts-based King and Cushman Agency, further expanding the company’s presence throughout New England.Based in Northampton, King and Cushman has served the area for nearly 100...
Jul 28 2022 // Legislation to ban discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles — such as Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists — in workplaces, school districts and school-related organizations in Massachusetts was...