All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2014 // Massachusetts prosecutors say grand juries in Hampshire and Franklin counties have indicted 38 people allegedly involved in an automobile insurance fraud ring.The Northwestern District Attorney’s office said in a...
Aug 20 2014 // A.P. Michaud Insurance Agency Inc., an independent insurance agency in Methuen, Massachusetts, announced the acquisition of Nancy Greenwood Insurance Agency, also based in Methuen. Terms of the transaction were not...
Aug 18 2014 // Massachusetts is launching a major effort to reach out to almost 400,000 residents who must reapply for health insurance because they were enrolled in temporary plans after the state’s health care marketplace website...
Aug 18 2014 // Auto insurance rates that fell sharply after deregulation in Massachusetts are climbing again.The Boston Globe reported on July 28 that five years after Massachusetts began to allow insurers to set their own rates, the...
Aug 15 2014 // The number of medical errors reported by Massachusetts acute-care hospitals has jumped 70 percent since the state expanded the type of incidents hospitals are required to report.Hospitals reported 753 serious medical...
Aug 14 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) announced this week its staff will be providing ongoing assistance for Revere residents and business owners who have open claims or other concerns related to the July 28th...
Aug 11 2014 // Massachusetts officials overseeing the state’s hobbled health care exchange decided last Friday to stick with new software designed to upgrade the website rather than switching over to the federal government’s...
Aug 11 2014 // The federal Small Business Administration is offering low-interest loans to Massachusetts residents and businesses to repair property damage from the tornado that hit Revere on July 28.The tornado brought winds of up to...
Aug 4 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on July 23 signed into law legislation that prohibits creditors from requiring residential property owners to buy flood insurance in an amount that exceeds the balance of their mortgage or...
Jul 30 2014 // Some residents in the coastal city of Revere, Massachusetts, remained out of their damaged homes while others continued cleaning up Tuesday after a rare tornado that struck just north of Boston.Monday’s storm hit...
Jul 29 2014 // A storm system that wreaked havoc across the eastern U.S. spawned a tornado just north of Boston on Monday, causing extensive damage in the coastal city of Revere, where roofs were ripped off buildings and dozens of large...
Jul 29 2014 // Auto insurance rates that fell sharply after deregulation in Massachusetts are climbing again.The Boston Globe reports that five years after Massachusetts began to allow insurers to set their own rates, the average premium...
Jul 28 2014 // A Rhode Island hospital has agreed to pay $150,000 in Massachusetts after losing backup tapes that contained the personal information of more than 12,000 Massachusetts residents.Massachusetts Attorney General Martha...
Jul 28 2014 // The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Companies (A.I.M. Mutual), a workers’ compensation insurer based in Burlington, Mass., promoted Abi Troy to director of information technology. In this...
Jul 24 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday signed into law legislation that prohibits creditors from requiring residential property owners to buy flood insurance in an amount that exceeds the balance of their mortgage...
Jul 23 2014 // Children in Massachusetts are better off than in any other state in the nation, according to a report released Tuesday.Massachusetts was ranked No. 1 in the overall well-being of children as measured in four categories,...
Jul 21 2014 // Thousands of Massachusetts motorcycle owners will receive a total of $14.6 million in insurance refunds as a result of a settlement with Commerce Insurance Company after allegedly being overcharged on their policies. The...
Jul 16 2014 // Massachusetts state officials are issuing safety reminders to families as the summer season takes hold. The Department of Children and Families, the Department of Public Health and the Office of the Child Advocate jointly...
Jul 14 2014 // Protesters from southern New England have rallied outside Hobby Lobby Inc. store in Seekonk, Massachusetts, to protest a U.S. Supreme Court decision that organizers say reduces access to reproductive health services and...
Jul 11 2014 // Massachusetts state officials are offering an upbeat assessment of efforts to repair the state’s hobbled health insurance website.Maydad Cohen, special assistant to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, told the...