All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2007 // A build-up of chemical vapor was the fuel for a massive explosion at a Danvers, Mass. paint and ink factory that leveled the building and forced a neighborhood evacuation, according to a preliminary conclusion by federal...
Feb 5 2007 // Massachusetts officials have given the green light to the redomestication of Harleysville Worcester Insurance Co. to Pennsylvania. The company is a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based Harleysville Insurance Group, whose...
Feb 2 2007 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has setttled a case brought by the state against Employers Reinsurance Group (ERC), a former subsidiary of General Electric, for unlawfully hiking the price of the Boston Water...
Jan 31 2007 // More than 200,000 Massachusetts residents who already have health insurance would be forced to buy additional coverage to meet the proposed minimum standards under the state’s new health insurance law, according to...
Jan 30 2007 // More than half of the people working for the new state agency charged with providing health insurance for Massachusetts’ low-income residents make more than $100,000 a year — and six earn more than Gov. Deval...
Jan 29 2007 // Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Co. (ProMutual) will not increase its rates for physicians, surgeons, dentists and certified nurse midwives in Massachusetts for 2007.If the proposed rates are approved, the company...
Jan 28 2007 // A judge has ordered the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass. to release thousands of pages of documents in a dispute between the church and seven of its insurance carriers over settlements with clergy sex abuse...
Jan 28 2007 // Mass. Gov. Patrick replaces commissioner; halts high risk planMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has taken steps to install his own appointee as insurance commissioner and halted the ongoing implementation of reforms to the...
Jan 26 2007 // High-profile crackdowns on auto insurance fraud have resulted in dramatic savings for drivers in some Massachusetts communities.The statewide average premium is scheduled to drop by nearly 12 percent on April 1, but...
Jan 25 2007 // The panel assigned with turning Massachusetts’ groundbreaking health care law into a reality sent insurers back to the drawing board this week, saying they need to do a better job at coming up with low cost health...
Jan 24 2007 // The Blue Hills Ski Area in suburban Boston has shut down indefinitely while the private operator of the state-owned facility scrambles to find new liability insurance coverage.The ski area hopes to have coverage in a...
Jan 23 2007 // Lobbyists trying to influence Massachusetts legislation on Beacon Hill raked in a record $64.3 million in 2006, as they plied their trade on issues ranging from education and insurance to tobacco and cable television,...
Jan 22 2007 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said he will comprehensively review the state auto insurance system after the acting insurance commissioner on Friday suspended rules changes made in the system during the final weeks of...
Jan 17 2007 // Mary E. Lamberti has been appointed chief operating officer at insurance broker Mazonson LLC in Wakefield, Mass.As Mazonson’s COO, Lamberti will oversee all aspects of day-to-day operations. She will be responsible...
Jan 15 2007 // The Commerce Insurance Co. has filed with the Massachusetts Division of Insurance to continue its five percent auto insurance rate discount for Amercian Automobile Association members in Massachusetts. If approved by the...
Jan 12 2007 // A judge has ordered the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass. to release thousands of pages of documents in a dispute between the church and seven of its insurance carriers over settlements with clergy sex abuse...
Jan 11 2007 // A man paralyzed in a car crash after a night of underage drinking can sue the bars that served him alcohol, the state’s highest court has ruled.The Supreme Judicial Court rejected claims by Robert Nunez that two...
Jan 11 2007 // The federal government should join the state of Massachusetts in enacting universal health coverage, according to Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Mass., the new chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over numerous...
Jan 10 2007 // Drive Commercial Auto, part of The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, announced plans to offer commercial auto insurance to Massachusetts business owners available exclusively through independent agents. With its...
Jan 7 2007 // Commerce Group, SWICO Enterprises, State-Wide InsuranceThe Commerce Group Inc., the largest auto insurer in Massachusetts, expects to enter the New York personal lines insurance market in 2007 as part of its plan to expand...