All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance issued a bulletin spelling out new disclosure requirements for insurance premium quotes for private passenger motor vehicle and personal property insurance.The Bulletin 2014-08,...
Oct 21 2014 // Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced it has acquired Benefit Development Group, a Worcester, Massachusetts-based broker for health insurance, group, and...
Oct 17 2014 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says if elected governor she’ll tap two former Democratic rivals to head a new council to study emergency preparedness in Massachusetts. Coakley announced Wednesday that...
Oct 15 2014 // Massachusetts health insurers have recently begun providing online cost-estimator tools that allow consumers to compare prices of medical procedures by various health care providers, as required by a transparency provision...
Oct 15 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed into law a bill that would require the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA) — also known as the Massachusetts FAIR Plan — to have...
Oct 14 2014 // Nicole Steinhilber recently graduated from the University of Hartford in Connecticut with a degree in chemistry and didn’t have to look far to find a job.Steinhilber is working as a lab technician in a converted...
Oct 10 2014 // The National Weather Service says damage in a severe storm that flattened hundreds of trees and brought down power lines in Easthampton, Massachusetts, was from a microburst with straight line wind up to 100 mph. The...
Oct 8 2014 // Chicago-based global insurance broker Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of FieldEddy, a property/casualty, personal lines and employee benefits brokerage with four locations in and around Springfield,...
Oct 7 2014 // A Massachusetts appeals court has set aside a $1.2 million jury award and ordered a new trial in a lawsuit stemming from a 2009 subway trolley crash in Boston.Colleen Fyffe, of Scituate, sued the Massachusetts Bay...
Oct 6 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance issued a bulletin notifying the state’s insurance producers of recent changes to the continuing education requirements.The bulletin 2014-06, issued on Sept. 23, stated that...
Sep 29 2014 // CMIC, a member-owned medical professional liability insurance provider in Glastonbury, Connecticut, announced that the overall rate indication for Connecticut and Massachusetts policyholders will remain unchanged for the...
Sep 29 2014 // John Hancock Life Insurance Company, along with its subsidiary broker-dealer, has agreed to refund senior citizens in Massachusetts more than $550,000, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office...
Sep 26 2014 // A Massachusetts company that employed two utility workers who died when the crane they were in tipped over as they worked on high-tension power lines on Cape Cod is facing $168,000 in fines. The federal Occupational Safety...
Sep 25 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance issued a bulletin this week notifying the state’s insurance producers of recent changes to the continuing education requirements.The bulletin 2014-06, issued on Sept. 23,...
Sep 22 2014 // The workers’ compensation class of business results in upwards of 10 percent of all errors and omissions (E&O) claims every year. While this may not seem like a lot, it is a class agents must be sensitive to for...
Sep 22 2014 // Florida, Rhode Island, Louisiana, California and Massachusetts are the top five states for exposures to multiple natural hazards, according to a new analysis by CoreLogic, a property data analytics firm.The analysis was...
Sep 19 2014 // A U.S. Treasury Department spokesperson last week provided a statement to Boston news outlets that said “The Secretary has not determined that there has been an ‘act of terrorism’ under the Terrorism Risk...
Sep 19 2014 // Lisa Marciano Appleby & Wyman, an independent insurance agency with offices in Beverly and Westford, Massachusetts, announced changes to its leadership. Effective Jan. 1, 2015, Carmen Marciano, who has served as...
Sep 18 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is sharply criticizing a report that puts a price tag of about $1 billion on the implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act in Massachusetts.The Pioneer Institute, a...
Sep 12 2014 // A draft document on costs of fire alarm and sprinkler systems in Massachusetts could lead to a rollback in requirements in some multi-unit residential buildings, a group of concerned fire officials said on Sept. 9.About 40...