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Insurance Technology Firm Xceedance Opens Global Headquarters in Massachusetts

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...

Repeal of Massachusetts Immigrant Driver’s License Qualifies for November Ballot

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...

Hub Acquires Miniter Group, a Lending Risk Insurance Specialist in Massachusetts

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...

Motel Has No Duty to Prevent Guest’s Suicide, Massachusetts Appeals Court Rules

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...

Hilb Group Acquires Cook & Co. in Massachusetts

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,...

OSHA Approves Massachusetts Public Sector Worker Safety Plan

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...

World Insurance Acquires 2 Massachusetts Agencies: Tarpey and Rush-Kent

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...

Hub Acquires Winter Harbor Insurance Group in Massachusetts

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...

Massachusetts City Claims Ex-Employee Shut Down Police Website

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...

Eastern Insurance Acquires Burns Agency in Massachusetts

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...

Hilb Group Acquires Transportation Agency Lighthouse in Massachusetts

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,...

Massachusetts Police Sued Over Wrongful Arrest Deny Racial Profiling Claim

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...

Renaissance Network Adds Frank Financial Agency of Massachusetts

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...

Lawsuit Against Massachusetts Police Alleges Wrongful Arrest of Black Man

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...

Massachusetts Agent Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement; Agency Barred From Business

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...

Massachusetts Court Denies Charitable Immunity, Allows Abuse Case Against Diocese

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...

Grubhub Drivers Are Not Exempt From Arbitration, Massachusetts High Court Rules

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...

Massachusetts Looks to Shield Abortion Providers, Patients From Other States

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...

Hilb Group Acquires King and Cushman Agency in Massachusetts

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...

Massachusetts Bans Hairstyle Discrimination at School, Work

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...