All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2007 // Massachusetts has three dates coming up that could be turning points in determining who gives thanks for the state’s new managed competition auto insurance system and who rates it a turkey.Insurance Commissioner...
Nov 6 2007 // Hub International Limited reported that Hub International New England has acquired substantially all of the assets of Rome Insurance Agency, Inc., which is based in Fitchburg, Mass. The Rome operation expands Hub New...
Nov 5 2007 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently launched a new online licensing system for producers.The first phase of the system, OLLIE (Online Licensing of Individuals and Entities), enables individual insurance...
Nov 4 2007 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has taken on the minefield of private passenger auto insurance, overseeing a transition from a highly-regulated rating system to one under which insurance companies are to...
Nov 4 2007 // N.Y. department prevails in liquidation bureau auditNew York state’s highest court has ruled that the state auditor does not have the authority to audit an obscure division of a state agency managing $3.3 billion....
Nov 1 2007 // The potential of the Hispanic insurance market is one of the factors attracting Spanish insurer Mapfre to its acquisition of the Massachusetts-based personal lines writer Commerce Group.Mapfre officials calculate that...
Oct 30 2007 // Spain’s largest insurer, Mapfre S.A., has agreed to buy the Massachusetts-based personal lines insurer The Commerce Group, Inc. for $2.21 billion in cash in a bold move to expand its presence in the U.S....
Oct 29 2007 // Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass., clergy abuse victims and the insurance carriers confirm that the sides have agreed to enter nonbinding settlement talks in a two-year old lawsuit.More than...
Oct 25 2007 // The first moves toward competitive rating for auto insurance in Massachusetts indicate that rates for drivers insured by insurers with small market share could drop an average 2.5 percent, while rates for drivers in the...
Oct 23 2007 // Some Massachusetts insurance agents are anxious about the state’s move to a deregulated auto insurance system but Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes thinks they will fare just fine.“I have spoken with them...
Oct 22 2007 // Lawmakers representing urban drivers in Massachusetts are challenging the Patrick administration’s auto insurance plan, saying new regulations leave loopholes for companies to charge higher rates to minorities and...
Oct 19 2007 // As Massachusetts gears up for a switch to a more competitive personal auto insurance market, one of its domestic auto insurers, Premier Insurance Co., will adopt the well-known brand of its parent, Travelers...
Oct 16 2007 // They can be some of the most common — and most easily preventable — injuries suffered during a recovery and now the state’s hospitals say they are making progress in helping prevent falls among their patients.The...
Oct 15 2007 // A Suffolk Superior Court jury in Boston has awarded $26.5 million to a 10-year-old boy and his parents after the family argued in a lawsuit that he was severely injured during a delayed delivery at Brigham and...
Oct 15 2007 // In an effort to clarify business and individual responsibilities under the Massachusetts Health Reform Act, the Massachusetts Association of Health Underwriters (MassAHU) has launched the Web site at...
Oct 12 2007 // Homeowners insurance rates for many in Massachusetts insured through the state’s secondary market insurer, the FAIR Plan, would drop 18 percent if Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley gets her...
Oct 9 2007 // Auto insurers in Massachusetts will not be able to use credit scores to price or underwrite risks when the state enters its managed competition market next April.Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes sided with consumer...
Oct 8 2007 // A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s residual homeowners’ insurance market, the...
Oct 8 2007 // A Massachusetts consumer group and Attorney General Martha Coakley urged Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes to incorporate more consumer protections and ban the use of credit scores in her proposed auto insurance...
Oct 8 2007 // Mass. warned on coastal development and insuranceA major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s...