All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 27 2010 // Massachusetts insurance agency Provider Insurance Group has hired Peter A. DiNardo as a commercial lines account executive. DiNardo has more than 12 years of experience, specializing in property and casualty insurance for...
May 13 2010 // Investigators say a five-alarm fire that caused an estimated $4.5 million in damages to a Sudbury, Massachusetts greenhouse operation was caused by a tractor malfunction.The state fire marshal and the Sudbury fire chief...
May 12 2010 // Massachusetts has approved a 2.4 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs, a figure that should reduce premiums by an estimated $22.5 million this year.Originally the Workers’ Compensation...
May 6 2010 // Nearly 10,000 Massachusetts drivers’ records will be corrected after four insurers reached settlements with the state over their failure to do so.Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office reached settlements...
May 5 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a” of United Fire & Casualty Group...
May 3 2010 // A lease agreement to buy insurance for a landlord trumps a state law that prohibits property owners from requiring tenants to indemnify landlords for their own negligence, Massachusetts highest court ruled.The decision...
Apr 21 2010 // A lease agreement to buy insurance for a landlord trumps state law that prohibits property owners from requiring tenants to indemnify landlords for their own negligence, Massachusetts highest court ruled.The decision...
Apr 13 2010 // The Massachusetts state fire marshal and Everett officials are investigating eight fires they say were deliberately set.Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said Sunday that the fires were set during a 45-minute period between 11...
Apr 5 2010 // A jury has awarded a Massachusetts couple $1.6 million in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of their son on a college basketball court. Antwoine Key, a 22-year-old senior at Eastern Connecticut State University,...
Apr 1 2010 // Attorney General Martha Coakley says Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. has sent out over $3 million in motorcycle insurance refunds to roughly 9,000 Massachusetts residents the company allegedly overcharged for collision and...
Mar 29 2010 // Forecasters say flooding is likely in some areas in Massachusetts with prolonged downpours today and tomorrow.Rainfall totals could be 2-1/2 to 5 inches, with some areas getting more. Alan Dunham of the weather service...
Mar 29 2010 // A jury has awarded a Massachusetts couple $1.6 million in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of their son on a college basketball court.Antwoine Key, a 22-year-old senior at Eastern Connecticut State University,...
Mar 22 2010 // The Massachusetts Congressional delegation has asked President Barack Obama to issue a disaster declaration after last week’s flooding.Ten inches of rain fell in Massachusetts over three days, causing floods that...
Mar 22 2010 // Two former owners of a temporary employment agency in Massachusetts have been charged with paying more than $24 million in unreported cash to employees as part of a conspiracy to avoid paying more than $7 million dollars...
Mar 15 2010 // Auto dealers in the Bay State must be careful of what they tell car-buyers about purchasing insurance, the Massachusetts Division of Insurance warns dealers in a newly issued bulletin.State law prohibits anyone without an...
Mar 7 2010 // Insurance brokerage Beecher Carlson will refund over $90,000 to Massachusetts clients who were not told the firm was receiving commissions from insurers in addition to client-paid fees, as part of a settlement with the...
Mar 5 2010 // The family of a Massachusetts woman who died shortly after doctors started a cosmetic surgery procedure on her has sued the national company that was overseeing the operation. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Middlesex...
Mar 3 2010 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said she opposes an insurance industry request to raise workers’ compensation premiums by about four percent this year. She said the hike would put an “additional...
Mar 2 2010 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurance rates would rise an average of 4.5 percent under a new rate proposal submitted by the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau.The bureau is the licensed...
Feb 26 2010 // The Bermuda-based Everest Re Group announced the appointment of Roger M. Singer to its Board of Directors, effective February 24, 2010. He formerly served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for One...