All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 6 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Aug 6 2007 // One of — if not the — most influential industry opponents of competitive rating for the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance system for years has changed course and says it now fully supports the...
Aug 6 2007 // One of — if not the — most influential industry opponents of competitive rating for the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance system for years has changed course and says it now fully supports the...
Jul 31 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents aren’t happy about the decision to introduce competitive rating into the state’s price-regulated private passenger auto insurance system. They enjoy the best market share (86...
Jul 31 2007 // Vincent Zarrilli knows a thing or two about lost causes.His proposal to convert an aircraft carrier to a prison went nowhere. And his calls for an alternative to the Big Dig went unheeded, as did his desire to create a...
Jul 27 2007 // The Commerce Group, Inc. in Webster, Mass. reported 2007 second net earnings were $41.5 million, or $0.63 per diluted share, compared to net earnings of $58.6 million or $0.86 per diluted share for 2006.Included in the...
Jul 27 2007 // Central Insurance is re-entering the Massachusetts commercial auto insurance marketplace after a 17-year absence.Since 1990, Central has been a commercial lines only insurer in Massachusetts, writing primarily commercial...
Jul 23 2007 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that friends who meet regularly after work for drinks cannot be held liable for injuries caused when one of the members of their group drives home intoxicated.The court ruled that...
Jul 23 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents aren’t happy about the decision to introduce competitive rating into the state’s price-regulated private passenger auto insurance system. They enjoy the best market share in the...
Jul 23 2007 // Four Arab-American men claim in a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts against FedEx Corp. that their supervisors subjected them to religious and ethnic slurs, called them terrorists and gave them less lucrative delivery...
Jul 23 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents aren’t happy about the decision to introduce competitive rating into the state’s price-regulated private passenger auto insurance system. They enjoy the best market share in the...
Jul 20 2007 // Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick said a new plan to increase competition in the regulated Massachusetts auto insurance market strikes a fine balance between the free market and government control.“It neither affirms the...
Jul 19 2007 // The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, in its first meeting with a board chairman who pledged openness and transparency, closed its public session Tuesday before a promised discussion of leaks in Big Dig tunnels.“I...
Jul 18 2007 // One day after Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes announced she would implement competitive rating for private pasenger auto insurance next year, the state attorney general urged caution. Attorney General...
Jul 17 2007 // Massachusetts insurance regulatory officials have scheduled a public hearing for today, July 17, into the proposed acquisition of American Employers’ Insurance Co. by SPARTA Insurance Holdings, Inc.SPARTA, a Delaware...
Jul 17 2007 // Massachusetts lawmakers say a federal safety board’s report on last year’s fatal Big Dig ceiling collapse gives a boost to their push for a national tunnel inspection program aimed at preventing future...
Jul 16 2007 // The last time — January, 1977 — Massachusetts tried to introduce competitive rating into private passenger auto insurance, a Democrat, Michael Dukakis, was governor. The experiment lasted about seven months before...
Jul 11 2007 // It was a dramatic end to a trial that pitted Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis against two respected surgeons: a juror collapsed, the doctors rushed to his aid and the judge declared a mistrial.Some in the legal...
Jul 2 2007 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that friends who meet regularly after work for drinks cannot be held liable for injuries caused when one of the members of their group drives home intoxicated.The court ruled that...
Jun 28 2007 // A Middleborough, Mass. couple have been indicted on charges they committed fraud when they attempted to collect insurance money for a barn they deliberately destroyed and then reported to be collapsed.Officials said that...