All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 8 2019 // Authorities are blaming misfired fireworks for starting a blaze that damaged the town hall in a Boston suburb.Firefighters in Randolph say the small fire broke out around 10 p.m. Wednesday, shortly after the town completed...
Jun 28 2019 // The company that employed a Ukrainian-born truck driver whose collision with motorcyclists in New Hampshire left seven dead has a history of violations including mechanical problems and drug-related infractions.Volodymyr...
Jun 28 2019 // Fred C. Church Insurance has hired Ian Lonsdale as an Employee Benefits client executive.The main focus of the Employee Benefits division at Fred C. Church is to serve and support its commercial clients. Utilizing five...
Jun 27 2019 // The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicle division has resigned for failing to terminate the commercial driving license of man whose collision with a group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire left seven dead.Volodymyr...
Jun 25 2019 // WELCH, West Virginia —The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy drug makers, feckless doctors and lax regulators. But there’s another group that has...
Jun 17 2019 // If Big Brother isn’t watching, maybe his little sister is listening.An international law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc., alleging that the company’s Alexa virtual assistant product...
Jun 13 2019 // PMC Insurance Group, a Bedford, Mass.-based, national workers’ compensation program administrator, wholesaler and solution provider, has hired Chris Coalson as vice president and senior broker.Prior to joining PMC,...
Jun 12 2019 // A new survey has found that nearly 62,000 medical errors in Massachusetts in one year cost about $617 million for follow-up care.The Boston Globe reports that the survey released Monday by the Betsy Lehman Center for...
Jun 11 2019 // Massachusetts construction companies and labor unions held work stoppages at project sites across the state on Wednesday as their industry attempts to confront a high rate of fatal opioid overdoses among its ranks.Robert...
Jun 6 2019 // Brown & Brown of Massachusetts LLC has acquired substantially all of the assets of Twinbrook Insurance.Founded in 1960, Twinbrook Insurance provides property and casualty insurance products and services to customers...
May 29 2019 // Activer Solutions, a Marlborough, Mass.-based, strategic service partner providing business process outsourcing to the property and casualty insurance industry, has appointed Ernie Feirer as chief marketing officer.This...
May 28 2019 // A worker has been seriously injured at a construction site in Lynn, Mass.Lynn Deputy Fire Chief Arthur Richard says the 38-year-old man was taken by helicopter Friday morning to a Boston hospital after suffering the...
May 24 2019 // Companies specializing in the handling of radioactive material are buying retired U.S. nuclear reactors from utilities and promising to clean them up and demolish them in dramatically less time than usual – eight...
May 24 2019 // An aspiring concert pianist whose career was likely ended when she lost a finger and suffered other severe injuries when a Boston restaurant’s brick and concrete facade collapsed on her has sued.The Boston Globe...
May 23 2019 // Sullivan Insurance Group has hired Peter Russell as a principal.Russell has worked in the insurance industry for more than 30 years and is responsible for the management of client insurance and risk management programs, as...
May 23 2019 // Jimcor Agency Inc., a Montvale, N.J.-based independent managing general agent and insurance wholesaler, has hired Joshua Burke in its Hopkinton, Mass., location as it seeks to expand its footprint in the New England...
May 21 2019 // Massachusetts health officials say a seafood restaurant worker has tested positive for hepatitis A and are warning customers they may have been exposed to the disease. The state Department of Public Health and local health...
May 6 2019 // The utility blamed for the natural gas explosions in Massachusetts last September now says the potential financial costs of the disaster have jumped to more than $1.6 billion, and could go higher.The Boston Globe reports...
May 6 2019 // The Massachusetts attorney general has sued a property owner and a contractor hired to demolish a shed on his property for costs associated with a fire and explosion that authorities say released a toxic soup into the...
May 2 2019 // The utility company blamed for September’s natural gas explosions in Massachusetts has settled a negligence lawsuit from a family injured in the disaster.Columbia Gas of Massachusetts and the Figueroa family...