All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2016 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently denied the state’s largest commercial home insurer’s request to add an ice-dam deductible to some policies.Mapfre USA Corp. had asked the Division to approve the...
Jan 7 2016 // Massachusetts consumers and businesses are expected to pay more for health insurance in 2016.Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s biggest commercial insurer, is raising premiums an average of 5...
Jan 6 2016 // Massachusetts residents are still getting hit by last year’s brutal winter.The Boston Globe reports that more homeowners are getting stuck with higher insurance bills following last year’s record-setting...
Jan 6 2016 // Health insurers in Massachusetts are pitching in to help the Gloucester Police Department with their well-known program to get heroin addicts into treatment. Under a pilot program launched Monday, members of the...
Jan 5 2016 // Bicyclists can get little respect on the road — from drivers, pedestrians, even fellow cyclists.Sometimes the angry stares are deserved, but more often the friction stems from the fact that bicycles, cars, buses,...
Dec 31 2015 // As the year 2015 comes to a close, here’s a look at InsuranceJournal.com’s most popular East region news stories of the year. Among the 1,100 stories posted in the East region this year, the following were 50...
Dec 31 2015 // Tarpey Insurance Group Inc., a family-owned and operated independent agency based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with four additional locations in the state, announced that it has acquired the assets of the Wilson Insurance...
Dec 30 2015 // State officials in Massachusetts are urging drone owners to fly responsibly this holiday season.The state Department of Transportation released suggested guidelines for operating the small, unmanned aircrafts this week....
Dec 30 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently published on its website written public comments that were received in conjunction with the Division’s informational hearings on the Massachusetts home insurance...
Dec 28 2015 // The Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIBMA) has submitted a rate filing to the Division of Insurance on behalf of its members.The Dec. 23 filing recommends a 6.4 percent increase...
Dec 21 2015 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says two of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurance companies won excessive and unwarranted rate increases of about 9 percent by taking advantage of last...
Dec 21 2015 // The largest force-placed insurer in Massachusetts has agreed to provide refunds to homeowners to settle allegations that it improperly charged for force-placed insurance policies, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura...
Dec 17 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently denied a request by Mapfre USA Corp. to add an ice-dam deductible to some homeowners policyholders who previously had multiple ice-dam claims.Mapfre USA Corp., the largest...
Dec 17 2015 // Among the many issues that Massachusetts lawmakers may deal with after returning from recess in January is whether to bring the state into compliance with REAL ID, a federal program that sets new requirements for...
Dec 11 2015 // Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts is expecting to receive $120 million in federal disaster assistance following last winter’s record snowfall.That’s the most ever awarded to the state as the...
Dec 8 2015 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co., an independent brokerage based in San Francisco, announced today that it will be acquiring Capstone Insurance, the property/casualty brokerage division of Newton, Massachusetts-based financial...
Dec 7 2015 // Eight years after the introduction of managed competition for private passenger auto insurance and the influx of direct writers and direct response companies into Massachusetts, a new study commissioned by the...
Dec 4 2015 // American Fidelity Assurance Company (AFA), a life and health insurance company based in Oklahoma City, has agreed to pay $209,000 to settle allegations that it failed to cover mandated benefits required by state law and...
Dec 3 2015 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says two of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurance companies won excessive and unwarranted rate increases of about 9 percent by taking advantage of last...
Nov 24 2015 // Two police officers and a prosecutor who work in the Northwestern District Attorney’s office in Northampton, Massachusetts, have earned a national award for combating auto insurance fraud.Det. Lt. John Cummings,...