All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2011 // A Massachusetts jury has returned guilty verdicts against three men — including a lawyer and a chiropractor — accused of staging several fraudulent motor vehicle accidents, according to the attorney general’s...
May 16 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has approved a $7 million settlement for a Shrewsbury family who claimed medical negligence in the birth of their daughter.The lawsuit filed in 2008 lawsuit against two doctors, a nurse practitioner...
May 13 2011 // The widow of a Salem, Mass. man who died when he was flung into the handrails inside a Big Dig tunnel after his pickup truck crashed has filed a $2 million wrongful death suit against eight companies involved in...
May 12 2011 // State officials have begun termination proceedings against two suspended safety inspectors after a 4-year-old boy fell to his death from a store escalator at a mall in central Massachusetts. The Department of Public Safety...
May 9 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has approved a $7 million settlement for a Shrewsbury family who claimed medical negligence in the birth of their daughter.The lawsuit filed in 2008 lawsuit against two doctors, a nurse practitioner...
May 3 2011 // A new report finds that fewer workers died on the job in Massachusetts in 2010 than in the previous year.But the report from the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health also...
Apr 13 2011 // Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise.Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold...
Apr 6 2011 // A Massachusetts woman is suing a Rhode Island bakery alleging that its pastries gave her son salmonella.Attorneys for Erin Carrera filed the lawsuit Monday against DeFusco’s Bakery in Johnston. Carrera, of Rehoboth,...
Apr 1 2011 // A former Massachusetts prisons worker has been sentenced to five years of probation for defrauding the state by running long-distance races while collecting worker’s compensation for an on-the-job injury. John...
Mar 21 2011 // The organization that files workers’ comp rates in Massachusetts has agreed to leave premiums flat through next year, following an agreement with the state’s attorney general that blocked a proposed increase of...
Mar 16 2011 // Lawmakers were told Monday that unsafe, abandoned or obsolete dams are “time bombs” that pose a threat to public safety and wildlife habitats in Massachusetts and need to be repaired or dismantled as quickly as...
Mar 8 2011 // Boston-based medical professional liability insurer ProMutual Group said it is decreasing premium rates for dentists in Massachusetts by 10 percent. The insurer said analysis by the company revealed lower than anticipated...
Mar 2 2011 // The organization that files workers’ comp rates in Massachusetts has agreed to leave premiums flat through next year, following an agreement with the state’s attorney general that blocked a proposed increase of...
Feb 18 2011 // Morrill Group, an independent insurance agency based in Norwood, Mass., has acquired Goldman Ernest & Liner Insurance Agency of Needham, Mass.Goldman, Ernest & Liner Insurance Agency Inc. will operate as a...
Feb 17 2011 // Brown & Brown has acquired United Benefit Services and Beverly T. Gottlieb & Associates, two metro-Boston agencies specializing in employee benefits and related insurance products. Terms of the deal were not...
Feb 15 2011 // The recession has taken its toll on contractors, restaurants, retailers, small manufacturers and other Main Street business around the country and most of the survivors are not going to soon forget the pain of the past few...
Feb 11 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is urging state insurance regulators to reject Progressive’s request for a 23.5 percent rate hike for commercial auto coverage.Coakley’s office says...
Feb 7 2011 // Breckenridge, REcentisNew York-based wholesaler Breckenridge IS has acquired a majority interest in REcentis Intermediaries, a specialty reinsurance broker with offices in California and Australia. Terms of the deal were...
Feb 7 2011 // Commercial property insurers in Massachusetts will be allowed to exclude terrorism coverage from commercial fire insurance policies under a new law signed by Gov. Deval Patrick.The law modifies the standard fire insurance...
Feb 7 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wants more severe criminal penalties for businesses that go without workers’ compensation insurance for their employees. A bill filed earlier this month by...