All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 9 2016 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a Wellesley, Mass., based network of New England independent insurance agencies, insurers and service providers, has expanded with the addition of seven new, full service member...
Sep 8 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 7 2016 // Andrew G. Gordon Insurance Inc., a Norwell, Mass., based insurance provider, and Atlantic Advisers Insurance Agency Inc., also of Norwell, Mass., have announced their merger. The companies will combine to operate as Gordon...
Sep 6 2016 // CVS Pharmacy Inc., the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., is set to strengthen its policies around dispensing opioids in Massachusetts and pay $795,000 to the state in a recent settlement between the pharmacy and Attorney...
Sep 6 2016 // State public health officials say preventable medical errors reported by full-service Massachusetts hospitals jumped 60 percent last year, but attributed the rise in large part to a problem at a single hospital. The...
Aug 31 2016 // A central Massachusetts farmhouse dating to 1800 has been destroyed by a fire.The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports that emergency crews responded to a three-alarm fire early Sunday at a home known as the Goodrich...
Aug 26 2016 // State public health officials say preventable medical errors reported by full-service Massachusetts hospitals jumped 60 percent last year, but attributed the rise in large part to a problem at a single hospital. The...
Aug 24 2016 // ICBUSA, a Scottsdale, Ariz., based member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), a London-headquartered professional membership organization for bookkeepers, and the Landy Insurance Agency of Needham, Mass., have...
Aug 22 2016 // Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft and spend the money on the traditional taxi industry, a subsidy that appears to be the first of its kind in the United...
Aug 19 2016 // A Leominster, Mass., man who set fire to his own restaurant to collect the insurance money has been sentenced to four years in prison.Jeffrey Cordio, who owned the West End Diner, was also sentenced in federal court to...
Aug 19 2016 // PMC Insurance Group, a Bedford, Mass., based workers’ compensation specialty wholesaler and program manager, has hired Ed Keenan as vice president of business development.In his new role, Keenan will be responsible...
Aug 18 2016 // Guidewire Software Inc., a property and casualty insurance software provider headquartered in Calif., has entered into an agreement to acquire FirstBest Systems Inc., a Bedford, Mass. based provider of underwriting...