All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2005 // A Suffolk Superior Court in Boston has ruled that an admittedly drunk underage drinker in Massachusetts can sue two bars that served him alcohol before he was involved in a vehicle crash.According to Judge Ralph Gants,...
Oct 27 2005 // Berkshire Insurance Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. in Pittsfield, Mass., has acquired the business and assets of each of MacDonald & Johnson, Inc., a full-service property and...
Oct 23 2005 // Crews on Saturday began dismantling a decrepit wooden dam that nearly collapsed and swamped Taunton, Mass. last week.Workers used heavy machinery to grab chunks of the Whittenton Pond Dam, which was replaced overnight by a...
Oct 19 2005 // As governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, a Republican who has said he wants to be governor of New York, helped turn around the state’s workers’ compensation system and introduce some competition into the...
Oct 19 2005 // Following a week of heavy rains, Governor Mitt Romney has ordered an emergency inspection of all “high hazard” dams in Massachusetts that are classified as not in good condition.High hazard means the dams will...
Oct 17 2005 // Emergency and utility crews across the Northeast worked Sunday to repair the damage caused by several days of rain and floods, but strong winds continued to cause problems.Parts of the Northeast had received more than a...
Oct 17 2005 // Richard Brewer likens the medical liability business to a barge floating down the Mississippi. “You’re never quite sure what it’s going to look like around the bend,” he explained.As president and...
Oct 17 2005 // Richard Brewer likens the medical liability business to a barge floating down the Mississippi. “You’re never quite sure what it’s going to look like around the bend,” he explained.As president and...
Oct 13 2005 // Nine individuals have been arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. in connection with an insurance fraud scheme that included the staging of several motor vehicle collisions in Lowell, Tyngsborough, and...
Oct 13 2005 // Three Quincy, Mass. residents have been charged in an under-the-table payroll scheme in which they allegedly paid hundreds of temporary employees, who performed manual labor at factories and warehouses in Massachusetts, a...
Oct 12 2005 // House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi vowed to deliver a bill dramatically expanding health care coverage to the uninsured in Massachusetts but shied away from offering specifics.DiMasi said the bill, which he promised to place...
Oct 4 2005 // Some 18 months after a report called the current system unfair and inequitable and three months after a court halted a substitute plan, the Massachusetts Division of Insurance has approved a modification in the way high...
Oct 3 2005 // Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly announced that more than 100 Massachusetts car owners are eligible to receive between $600 and $9,000 in restitution from State Farm Insurance. Reilly said those consumers will be...
Sep 30 2005 // One thing is known: auto insurance rates in Massachusetts will be going down in 2006. How much remains a matter for Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler to decide by the end of the year.Bowler today received her third...
Sep 29 2005 // Massachusetts drivers should see an 18 percent decrease in the cost of auto insurance, said Attorney General Tom Reilly. The recommendation, being filed today with the state Department of Insurance (DOI), would reduce the...
Sep 23 2005 // An insurance industry-backed group that calls itself Fairness for Good Drivers is going on television to advance its program for changes in the auto insurance system in Massachustetts.The group has bought advertising time...
Sep 15 2005 // Despite indications that a 28.4 percent statewide rate hike is called for, the Massachusetts Fair Plan is requesting a 12.5 percent hike across all homeowners policies.The residual market insurer’s overall request...
Sep 14 2005 // Massachusetts officials say they are revising their disaster response plans after watching the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and the problems with relief efforts.Boston is redrawing its plan to evacuate and...
Sep 7 2005 // Ralph “Buddy” Iannaco, president of Commonwealth Automobile Reinsurers, will be honored as the Insurance Professional of the Year 2005 by the Insurance Library Association of Boston. The award will be presented...
Sep 6 2005 // Massachusetts insurance agents are taking the call to aid victims of hurricane Katrina seriously. The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents is sending a $20,000 check to the Big ‘I’ Katrina Relief Fund...