All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers says it is supporting a bill, currently pending in the Massachusetts Senate, that would impose jail time and heavy fines for insurance fraud, indicating that its passage...
Apr 30 2003 // “The 2004 Fiscal Year budget proposal newly released by the Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee would make it more expensive for insurers to do business in the Commonwealth and open insurers domesticated in...
Apr 23 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin in favor of a Massachusetts bill giving the insurance commissioner authority to promulgate privacy regulations consistent with the federal...
Apr 16 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) is opposing passage of a bill heard Tuesday by a Massachusetts legislative panel that would add fuel spill coverage to the standard homeowners insurance policy.HB 1961 mandates that...
Apr 9 2003 // Hundreds of Massachusetts doctors attended a rally on the steps of the State Capital in Boston on Tuesday to protest the premium increases they are being asked to pay in order to obtain medical malpractice...
Apr 1 2003 // In testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor the Alliance of American Insurers indicated that a proposed revision to the Uniform Commercial Code being considered by the legislature...
Mar 28 2003 // Massachusetts Consumer Affairs Director Beth Lindstrom has issued a bulletin urging the public to exercise caution when considering the purchase of travel insurance policies. The warning comes as a result of “the...
Mar 25 2003 // A half-day workshop, examining “2001 Commercial General Liability – Important Changes and Tips, Tricks, & Traps” is to be presented by the CPCU Society, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter, on...
Feb 10 2003 // Horace Mann Educators Corp., based in Springfield, Ill., today reported net income of $13.5 million, or 33 cents per share, for the fourth quarter, up from $4.8 million, or 12 cents per share, for the year-earlier quarter....
Jan 14 2003 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company announced that it plans to file a request with the Massachusetts Division of Insurance to give a 10 percent discount to its best private passenger automobile customers in the...
Dec 20 2002 // The substantial variation in workers’ compensation medical fee schedules among the states is not related to the different costs health care providers incur delivering medical services to injured workers, according to...
Dec 18 2002 // The license of James Falzone, an insurance broker based in Waltham, Mass., was revoked after he allegedly collected $2,900 from a taxi company for coverage and then never purchased a policy for the client.The Daily News...
Dec 16 2002 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie Bowler announced a 2.7 percent auto insurance rate increase for 2003 after rejecting an average rate increase request by insurers of 7 percent.The smaller rate increase translates...
Dec 16 2002 // The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) announced the finalization of its new telemarketing regulations, which include changes recommended by the National Association of Independent...
Dec 6 2002 // John Grinnell, a former insurance broker from Fall River, Mass., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf to 5 years’ probation on charges of issuing almost 150 bogus insurance liability policies and taking...
Nov 6 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) has decried a regulation proposed by the Massachusetts Office of Consumer and Business Affairs that would require all businesses engaging in telephone solicitation to...
Oct 8 2002 // The Massachusetts State Rating Bureau announced it has filed a recommendation for a statewide 2 percent increase for private passenger auto insurance rates in 2003, denying the 7 percent increase requested by auto...
Sep 9 2002 // The Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts will host a conference Nov. 7-8 to discuss new technologies and techniques used to prevent insurance claim fraud. Entitled “Insurance Claim Fraud: Developing the Models and...
Sep 6 2002 // ManagedComp Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based national worker’s compensation underwriter and third party administrator, plans to distribute $5,432,000 in surplus to four self-insurance groups (SIGs) in...
Jul 22 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Eastern Casualty Insurance Co. to double-‘Bpi’ from triple-‘Bpi’ citing a decline in capitalization...