All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2016 // A 10-person jury in Boston on Wednesday rejected the claims made by a class of currently healthy Marlboro smokers in Massachusetts who wanted Philip Morris USA to pay for annual chest scans.Altria Client Services senior...
Feb 10 2016 // Philip Morris USA should pay for annual chest scans for thousands of longtime Marlboro smokers in Massachusetts because the company sold a defective and unreasonably dangerous product, a lawyer for the smokers told jurors...
Feb 9 2016 // The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Dowling & O’Neil, an independent agency in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Terms of the transaction...
Feb 8 2016 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary, The Advocator Group LLC, has acquired substantially all of the equity interests of Social Security Advocates for the Disabled LLC (SSAD) in Norwell, Massachusetts....
Feb 4 2016 // Anderson, Bagley & Mayo Insurance Agency, an independent agency based in Leominster, Massachusetts, announced that it has acquired Judy A. Mendolusky Insurance Agency, also based in Leominster. Terms of the...
Jan 27 2016 // A decade after a group of smokers from Massachusetts sued Philip Morris USA to try to force the cigarette maker to pay for lung cancer screenings, the case will finally be heard by a jury.Smokers in the class-action...
Jan 26 2016 // Kaplansky Insurance, an independent agency based in Needham, Massachusetts, announced that it has acquired Doherty & White Insurance Agency in Quincy, Massachusetts. Terms of the transaction were not...
Jan 26 2016 // John Papanastasiou Cross Insurance, an insurance agency headquartered in Bangor, Maine, has hired John Papanastasiou as branch manager in Peabody, Massachusetts. In this new role, Papanastasiou will assume responsibility...
Jan 25 2016 // The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) announced that longtime President and Chief Executive Officer, Francis A. Mancini, will retire from the association at the end of 2016.MAIA has formed a search...
Jan 21 2016 // Motorists in Massachusetts may soon have to put down their cellphones when they’re on the road.A bill prohibiting the use of hand-held mobile electronic devices while driving would also make it illegal to enter...
Jan 15 2016 // The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) announced Thursday that its longtime president and chief executive officer, Francis A. Mancini, will retire from the association at the end of 2016. MAIA said it has...
Jan 11 2016 // The Massachusetts House signed off on a measure last week that would end the state’s longstanding policy of automatically suspending for up to five years the driver’s licenses of people convicted of drug...
Jan 11 2016 // 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...
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...