All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 27 2017 // Charles Taylor Adjusting (CTA), an international loss adjusting business focused on commercial losses and claims, has appointed Vince Cole as U.S. CEO and regional head.Based in Boston, Mass., he will be responsible for...
Jan 27 2017 // Sullivan Insurance Group, an insurance and risk management firm headquartered in Worcester, Mass., has promoted Beth Grenier to vice president of claims and Monica T. DiPietro to manager of personal lines.Grenier has been...
Jan 26 2017 // Fire investigators in Cambridge, Mass., say a massive 10-alarm blaze that damaged or destroyed 18 buildings last month was caused by the careless disposal of smoking material by a worker.The results of the investigation...
Jan 26 2017 // Police and federal safety officials are investigating a fatal workplace accident in Freetown, Mass. It happened early Tuesday afternoon at a distribution center for Stop & Shop supermarkets. Police say a man later...
Jan 23 2017 // The Massachusetts Fire Marshal says the communications connection between the fire alarm system and the alarm monitoring company had broken two days before a New Year’s Day fire in a Holyoke apartment building that...
Jan 23 2017 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired University Health Plans (UHP), a Quincy, Mass., based brokerage firm specializing in student health insurance...
Jan 23 2017 // Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has appointed Todd R. Johnson, senior vice president and property-casualty practice leader of the USI Insurance Services’ (USI) Massachusetts offices located in Woburn, Needham and...