All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 15 2017 // A fire has destroyed several businesses in a Framingham, Mass., shopping plaza.The fire started around 2 a.m. Saturday at the Old Path Village Complex. Authorities say the blaze was difficult to combat and fast-moving...
Mar 9 2017 // Sullivan Insurance Group, a Worcester, Mass.-headquartered, full-service insurance and risk management firm providing property and casualty, employee benefits and personal insurance for individuals and businesses, has...
Mar 8 2017 // A Massachusetts man who served time in prison for defrauding Home Depot has been sentenced to more than a year behind bars for doing it again.Robert Dooley pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wire fraud. The Salem News reports...
Mar 6 2017 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Pa.-based independent broker, has hired Jeremy Taggart as a financial analyst in the employee benefits department.In his new role, Taggart will use his three years of industry...
Mar 3 2017 // The National Transportation Safety Board will look into the “man, the machine and the environment” as it investigates a plane crash that killed a former mayor and left the tail of the aircraft poking out of the...
Mar 3 2017 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S), an East Providence, R.I.-headquartered independent insurance agency, has acquired the independent insurance agency McGrath Insurance Group, operating in...
Mar 2 2017 // The former controller for a Milford, Mass.-based developer has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for stealing nearly $1.5 million from the company.Sixty-one-year-old Michael Lussier was sentenced Monday after...
Mar 1 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG), an insurance agency headquartered in Richmond, Va., has acquired the group benefits division of Massachusetts-based Sapers & Wallack Inc. (S&W). The transaction became effective February...
Feb 28 2017 // The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado with winds up to 110 mph touched down in western Massachusetts.Meteorologists say the EF-1 tornado touched down Saturday evening in Conway in Franklin County. The...
Feb 27 2017 // Police say a man working on a house under construction in Duxbury, Mass., has died in a fall from the roof.The Patriot Ledger reports that police and firefighters were called to the construction site at around 7:45 a.m....
Feb 24 2017 // Eastern Insurance Group, a Natick, Mass.-headquartered subsidiary of Eastern Bank, has hired Mark J. Goyer as vice president and sales executive within Eastern Benefits Group, the insurance firm’s employee benefits...
Feb 17 2017 // XS Brokers Insurance Agency Inc., a Northeast wholesale and managing general agent (MGA) brokerage headquartered in Quincy, Mass., has announced the opening of a new office in Worcester, Mass.The firm now has four East...
Feb 17 2017 // The Concord Group Insurance Companies, a Concord, N.H.-based insurance carrier, has announced that Daniel L. McCabe has joined the senior leadership team as a vice president.“Dan will play an important role on our...
Feb 10 2017 // Criminal charges have been announced in connection with a Boston, Mass., water main break that killed two workers.Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley on Wednesday announced a grand jury had returned indictments...
Feb 9 2017 // State police are reporting numerous multi-vehicles accidents on Boston-area highways that were turned into skating rinks by early morning freezing rain.Police tweeted that Route 128 northbound north of Interstate 93 in the...
Feb 8 2017 // Massachusetts fire officials say smoking around a medical oxygen system was the likely cause of a fatal fire in Haverhill.A 68-year-old man died in a house fire that started around 4 a.m. Saturday morning. The State Fire...
Feb 7 2017 // The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts has ruled that post-judgment interest is not included in any enhanced damages in connection with damages that have already been awarded under the Massachusetts Consumer...
Feb 7 2017 // Rogers & Gray Insurance, a South Dennis, Mass., headquartered independent insurance agency, has promoted Allison McEachern to senior vice president and director of human resources, effective January 2017.In her new...
Feb 6 2017 // A Massachusetts appeals court used a recent case to warn auto insurers about the importance of taking retail book value into consideration early in the settlement process.While the court ruled in favor of defendant...
Feb 2 2017 // Eastern Insurance Group LLC, a wholly owned, Natick, Mass., headquartered subsidiary of Eastern Bank, has acquired the assets of the Chase and Lunt Insurance Agency LLC, a full-service insurance agency located in...