All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2012 // Lawyers and judges warned lawmakers on Monday that budget constraints on the state’s judiciary are imperiling the delivery of justice and compromising security in its courts.Robert Mulligan, chief justice for...
Mar 19 2012 // It’s been more than 10 years since Massachusetts raised its workers’ compensation average rates. Is it time for a rate hike? The state’s insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy will hold a public hearing on...
Mar 14 2012 // Home improvement contractors, used cars, insurance claims and foreclosure scams were among the top consumer complaints lodged by Massachusetts residents in 2011.Several state and federal agencies gathered Tuesday to...
Mar 13 2012 // Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a bill that would require privately-owned tunnels to be insured if the tunnels are used by the traveling public.Under the bill, the state Office of the Inspector General would determine...
Mar 8 2012 // Massachusetts insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy will hold a public hearing March 30 to examine a rate increase request from The Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIB).The...
Mar 6 2012 // An exclusive western Massachusetts private school has settled a lawsuit brought by a former student who said she was sexually assaulted by a teacher when she was 16 and that the school did nothing about it.A spokeswoman...
Mar 5 2012 // Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is continuing to push to resolve a dispute between the Obama administration and the Catholic church about covering contraception in health care plans. In a blog post last month,...
Feb 29 2012 // A Massachusetts man has settled a federal lawsuit that claimed his free speech rights were violated when he was removed from a public meeting where he criticized school officials’ handling of the case of a...
Feb 24 2012 // The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that teenagers who host underage drinking parties but do not supply alcohol cannot be held civilly liable if one of their guests gets hurt.The Supreme Judicial Court ruled...
Feb 20 2012 // A Massachusetts judge has upheld a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after a Toys `R Us inflatable pool slide partially collapsed.In October, a jury ordered Toys “R Us to pay the award...
Feb 20 2012 // Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is continuing to push to resolve a dispute between the Obama administration and the Catholic church about covering contraception in health care plans.In a blog post Friday,...
Feb 20 2012 // Earlier this month, the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., hosted a debate on the federal health care law, the Affordable Healthcare Act, pitting two of the most prominent attorneys general against each other.The...
Feb 17 2012 // Enservio, a Needham, Mass.-based provider of property insurance analytics, affinity marketing and claims solutions, is acquiring Insurers World, a provider of inventory transcriptions and evaluation services for claims,...
Feb 15 2012 // TD Insurance, a subsidiary of TD Bank, has promoted David Lofstrom to vice president of U.S. commercial sales and product development. Based in Boston, he will help grow the commercial property/casualty and employee...
Feb 15 2012 // About 150 current and former employees of a Pittsfield, Mass., hotel as well as hotel management have reached a $1.3 million agreement in a dispute over tips the workers claim they were entitled to but never received.The...
Feb 13 2012 // PMC Insurance Group, a national workers’ compensation insurance wholesaler, appointed Kate Alben as New England territory manager.Alben will be responsible for the expansion and growth of the New England territory,...
Feb 7 2012 // Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts’ own landmark 2006 health care law.On Thursday Coakley will defend...
Feb 6 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is opposing a recently proposed home insurance rate request for 150,000 consumers, calling it illegally excessive. She made her remarks during her testimony before the...
Feb 6 2012 // Six Northeastern states saw their annual average auto premium fall, according to the latest data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. They are: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,...
Jan 25 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is opposing a recently proposed home insurance rate request for 150,000 consumers, calling it illegally excessive. Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley. Photo credit: Attorney...