All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2018 // The Norfolk and Dedham Group (N&D), based in Dedham, Mass., has appointed Victor Pepin to its senior leadership team as chief operating officer. In this newly created role, he will provide executive oversight of its...
Mar 12 2018 // The sun came out across much of the Northeast on Friday as utilities tackled the arduous task of restoring power to hundreds of thousands of customers who lost electricity during the storm that hit the region this week,...
Mar 9 2018 // Salem Five has acquired Cape Ann Insurance, headquartered in Gloucester, Mass.The acquisition will help Salem Five better serve the insurance needs of its customers in the region, according to Salem Five President and CEO...
Mar 9 2018 // The Northeast is digging out from its second powerful nor’easter in less than a week that left behind some areas with more than 2 feet of snow, hundreds of thousands without power, school closures and travel...
Mar 8 2018 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Leitao Insurance Agency Inc. (Leitao). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Located in Ludlow, Mass., Leitao is a multi-line...
Mar 6 2018 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets from Rubino Enterprises Inc. (formerly known as TYG Insurance Agency Inc.). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in...
Mar 6 2018 // Power is slowly being restored in the hardest hit areas of the East Coast, days after a destructive nor’easter downed trees and power lines, flooded coastal towns and forced a number of school districts to cancel...
Mar 2 2018 // A potentially record-breaking nor’easter is set to pummel the U.S. East Coast with wind, snow and rain Friday, putting billions of dollars of coastal real estate at risk from “unprecedented...
Mar 1 2018 // Officials with Massachusetts’ tax collection agency say a data breach that exposed private information from about 39,000 business taxpayers was twice as large as originally thought.The Massachusetts Department of...
Feb 27 2018 // Authorities say a Massachusetts trolley driver paid a man $2,000 to attack him while wearing a Halloween mask so the driver could fraudulently collect workers’ compensation and disability insurance.A Suffolk County...
Feb 8 2018 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has unveiled a new online portal to let businesses and organizations report data breaches.The Democrat said the online portal should make it easier to alert her office to the...
Feb 8 2018 // Officials estimate it will cost about $300,000 to repair a Massachusetts library after a burst pipe dumped thousands of gallons of water into the building. The Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, Mass., remains closed...
Feb 7 2018 // Rogers & Gray Insurance, a Kingston, Mass-based independent insurance agency, has promoted John Gaynier to executive vice president and partner. Gaynier has been with the agency for five years and focuses primarily on...
Feb 5 2018 // The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) has ruled two former board members and investors in a limited liability company are not liable for failing to pay the LLC’s former president, in a case that the SJC...
Feb 2 2018 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has launched a new Data Breach Reporting Online Portal, which businesses and organizations can use to provide notice to the AG’s Office as required by the Massachusetts...
Jan 31 2018 // The Arbella Insurance Group, a Quincy, Mass.-based regional property and casualty insurance company, has appointed Karin Martin to assistant vice president in its contact centers.Reporting to Janet Corcoran, executive vice...
Jan 30 2018 // Licensed mortgage lender Radius Financial Group has launched a new company to service clients’ insurance needs.The Norwell, Mass.-headquartered private, full-service insurance agency is called Radius Insurance Group...
Jan 29 2018 // Eastern Insurance Group LLC, a Natick, Mass.-headquartered, wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastern Bank, has acquired the assets of the Southeastern Insurance Agency Inc., a full-service insurance agency with locations in...
Jan 19 2018 // Coverys, a Boston, Mass.-based medical professional liability insurance provider, has announced its investment in two separate organizations, Knowledge Diffusion Inc. (Osmosis) and Pack Health LLC (Pack Health).Osmosis is...
Jan 18 2018 // Kaplansky Insurance has acquired Anthony and Malcolm Insurance Agency in Bradford, Mass.Founded in 1919, Anthony and Malcolm Insurance provides a range of insurance services to both personal and commercial clientele. The...