All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 10 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired certain assets of Luk-Sal LLC, doing business as DFM Insurance Agency and based in Cape Cod, Mass. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The...
Nov 10 2016 // A federal judge said Bill Cosby’s homeowner’s insurance company must defend him against three civil defamation lawsuits in Massachusetts brought by several women who accused the once-beloved entertainer of...
Nov 9 2016 // A Northeastern University student who says she was raped on campus after a 2013 Halloween party alleges in a lawsuit that the school mishandled her case.Morgan Helfman alleges negligence, breach of contract, intentional...
Nov 4 2016 // The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Mass., has ruled that the Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund is authorized to recover certain amounts paid by the fund in workers’ compensation benefits on...
Oct 21 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI), an insurance brokerage and consulting firm headquartered in Valhalla, New York, has hired Brian D. Bark as president of the employee benefits practice in its Woburn, Mass., office. In this...
Oct 18 2016 // Tarpey Insurance Group Inc., a family owned and operated independent insurance agency headquartered in Wakefield, Mass., has acquired TSB Insurance Services, also of Wakefield, Mass.TSB Insurance Services will be relocated...
Oct 14 2016 // CMIC, an A- (A.M. Best) rated company and member-owned medical professional liability insurance provider, announced that the overall rate indication for Connecticut and Massachusetts policyholders will remain unchanged for...
Oct 13 2016 // A.I.M. Mutual Insurance Cos., a Burlington, Mass., based workers’ compensation insurer, has named two to its field operations team.Daniel Landers has been named director of field operations, in which he will be...
Oct 12 2016 // Seat belt usage has climbed to an all-time high in Massachusetts, yet according to new research from the state highway safety division more than one in five motorists still do not buckle up.An observational study conducted...
Oct 12 2016 // H.J. Knight International Insurance Agency, a Braintree, Mass., based full service brokerage firm specializing in insurance and risk management solutions, has named Joscelyn Urnek to the newly created position of director...
Oct 3 2016 // The town of Framingham, Mass., has reached a $3.75 million settlement with the family of a grandfather accidentally shot and killed by police during a 2011 drug raid.The town announced Wednesday that the settlement with...
Oct 3 2016 // Conner Strong & Buckelew, an insurance, risk management and employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm duel headquartered in Marlton, N.J., and Philadelphia, Penn., has opened a Boston, Mass., office.This move...
Sep 30 2016 // Police are looking for an employee of a Massachusetts Wal-Mart they say set three fires inside the store, forcing the disposal of all the food on the sales floor.Police say they identified the suspect through security...
Sep 29 2016 // The owners of Caron Contracting, a Fall River, Mass., based contracting company, have been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud over failure to disclose the true nature of their company’s work,...
Sep 27 2016 // Keeping students safe on college campuses is the focus of an upcoming conference in Massachusetts.The state Department of Higher Education says the gathering scheduled for Wednesday at the DCU Center in Worcester is...
Sep 23 2016 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc., a Worcester, Mass. based holding company for several property and casualty insurance companies, has appointed Jeffrey M. Farber as executive vice president and chief financial...
Sep 21 2016 // Massachusetts appears to be bucking efforts by makers of prescription painkillers to kill or weaken measures aimed at stemming the tide of prescription opioids.The drugmakers say they’re combating the addiction...
Sep 20 2016 // XS Brokers, a Quincy, Mass., headquartered independent insurance brokerage, has hired Jason Kent as a broker in the firm’s Connecticut office.His hiring comes as the firm has seen continued growth in its Connecticut,...
Sep 19 2016 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that Massachusetts law should apply in deciding whether Narragansett Electric Co. (NEC), a Rhode Island-based utilities provider, is entitled to insurance coverage for...
Sep 13 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) last week installed new officers who have begun serving their terms.Connecticut independent agent Spencer Houldin was inaugurated as the...