All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 27 2006 // Tenn. Gov. Phil Bredesen said he won’t force his “Cover Tennessee” plan to cover the state’s uninsured on small businesses or individuals. If the one-in-10 state residents without health insurance...
Mar 21 2006 // “Not Your Typical Bank,” the slogan used by Citizens Financial Group in its popular consumer-friendly ads, seems to apply to the bank’s latest move, the selling off of its respected insurance agencies.It...
Mar 20 2006 // Not Your Typical Bank,” the slogan used by Citizens Financial Group in its consumer ads, seems to apply to the bank’s latest move, the selling off of its respected insurance agencies.It is not a typical sale....
Mar 19 2006 // Massachusetts State Sen. Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr. has announced that he will not seek re-election in November and will instead run for registrar of the Middle Berkshire Registry of Deeds.Nuciforo, D-Pittsfield, told the...
Mar 16 2006 // House and Senate negotiators in Massachusetts are nearing a final deal on a health care reform package, Senate President Robert Travaglini said Tuesday.“The biggest obstacle that we’re left with is just fine...
Mar 15 2006 // Some Massachusetts politicians want to make sure that good drivers in communities that crackdown on auto insurance fraud reap the savings.But insurers contend that an overhaul of the entire auto insurance system, rather...
Mar 12 2006 // Eastern Insurance Group today has acquired Howland’s Insurance Agency in Rockland, Mass.For Eastern Insurance, the acquisition increases its customer base south of Boston, where it already has seven locations. In...
Mar 10 2006 // The Massachusetts Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in a case that could decide the future of the state’s auto insurance market. Commerce Insurance Company v. Commissioner of...
Mar 8 2006 // Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has held off on saying whether he’ll support a sweeping health care reform bill crafted by legislative leaders until he can determine if it would require a tax increase to pay for...
Mar 6 2006 // Massachusetts moved a step closer to dramatically expanding health coverage last week after House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini said they’ve broken a legislative impasse blocking a...
Mar 1 2006 // Citizens Financial Group is selling its considerable insurance agency businesses to Hub International Limited in a deal that includes a strategic alliance between the two for future sales and marketing.Hub will purchase...
Feb 26 2006 // The director of one of Masachusetts’ largest regional transit authorities has been placed on paid administrative leave as federal agents investigate his handling of contracts and bids, including ones for...
Feb 22 2006 // Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a third-party administrator of self-insured workers’ compensation programs, announced it is distributing $2,475,000 in dividends to 475 Massachusetts businesses that are members of the...
Feb 16 2006 // Jaimie Doucette has joined the Needham, Mass.- based insurance agency, Provider Insurance Group, as an account manager in personal lines insurance. In her position, Doucette advises clients on automobile and home owners...
Feb 6 2006 // The Massachusetts economy could be battered if a major storm were to hit the metropolitan Boston area because the state’s homeowners insurance market is undercapitalized, the state’s insurance regulator is...
Feb 5 2006 // Mass. needs new insurance capital to weather big stormThe Massachusetts economy could be battered if a major storm were to hit the metropolitan Boston area because the state’s homeowners insurance market is...
Feb 3 2006 // Thousands of workers employed by some of the state’s top retailers, restaurants and hospitals in Massachusetts are relying on taxpayers to pick up the tab for their health care, according to a report released this...
Feb 2 2006 // A retired Massachusetts lawyer secretly held seven stolen paintings, including a Paul Cezanne still-life worth millions of dollars, for 28 years because he wanted a 10 percent finders fee, the Boston Globe reported...
Jan 31 2006 // On March 23, the Chartered Pproperty Casualty Society and its Central Massachusetts and Boston Chapters will be hosting two CPCU Society National Leadership Institute courses, Strategic Thinking and Strategic Planning. The...
Jan 29 2006 // A plan to redistribute residual market auto insurance policies among insurance carriers and agents in Massachusetts has been approved by state officials.The final plan for Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers will require that...