All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 30 2008 // Stop putting passwords on sticky notes, require passwords for desktops and encrypt all backups.For those that haven’t done so already, insurance agents and agencies are going to have to get smart about encryption...
Nov 24 2008 // Natick, Massachusetts-based insurance agency Eastern Insurance Group has appointed David H. Chase Jr. and Craig E. Dunlop as vice presidents in commercial lines sales.Both will be based out of Eastern’s new branch...
Nov 21 2008 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked the Division of Insurance to initiate an administrative rate proceeding to review the new auto insurance rates of Premier Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Travelers...
Nov 19 2008 // The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has extended by at least four months a deadline for businesses to electronically encrypt digital records of their customers’ personal information.The new regulations – which...
Nov 17 2008 // One of the Big Dig’s largest contractors, Modern Continental Construction Inc., will pay $21 million in damages related to a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse as well as the cost of fixing leaks in the massive highway...
Nov 12 2008 // Beverly, Massachusetts-based personal lines insurer Electric Insurance Co. said the Massachusetts Department of Insurance has approved its newest rate filing, which will decrease its personal auto insurance rates by an...
Nov 7 2008 // A lawyer says the family of a 40-year-old woman who died after receiving experimental cancer drugs at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has been awarded $13.5 million in a lawsuit. Robert Higgins, a lawyer for the...
Nov 2 2008 // Barely six months into Massachusetts’ new deregulated auto insurance system — one designed to favor consumers who shop around for the best rates — fewer than one in four drivers have actually done so, according...
Nov 2 2008 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has presided over the biggest shakeup in the Massachusetts’ personal auto insurance market in generations. Over the last year, she’s led the charge to scrap...
Nov 2 2008 // As employers, taxpayers, consumers and charitable contributors, Massachusetts’ independent insurance agents make a $1.9 billion cumulative contribution to the Bay State’s economy last year, according to a new...
Oct 31 2008 // State officials say that since Melanie’s Law was enacted, more suspected drunken drivers are being arrested, and more repeat offenders are completing a program to keep them from drinking and driving. Motor Vehicles...
Oct 29 2008 // Gov. Deval Patrick swore in the newest member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board this week, but that formality did not stop the new board member, John Jenkins, from weighing in last week and helping postpone the...
Oct 29 2008 // Agency President Charles N. Robinson announced the recent addition of Eric Labo to Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency, Inc., as a personal lines sales executive. Prior to joining the agency, Labo was employed by Wells...
Oct 24 2008 // Three companies allegedly responsible for spilling about 18,000 gallons of fuel oil into the Chelsea River and Mill Creek in Revere in Massachusetts have agreed to pay $312,500 to a restoration fund.The oil was released in...
Oct 20 2008 // The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles will cut branch hours as it scales back amid a massive, statewide budget cut.The RMV saw $2 million chopped from its budget as part of $1 billion in cuts and spending controls...
Oct 20 2008 // As employers, taxpayers, consumers and charitable contributors, Massachusetts’ independent insurance agents make a $1.9 billion cumulative contribution to the Bay State’s economy last year, according to a new...
Oct 20 2008 // People who have switched policies, and everyone who must renew them in the future, could lose their appellate right under the new regulations.The Massachusetts insurance commissioner, addressing a concern of some insurers,...
Oct 17 2008 // Barely six months into Massachusetts’ new deregulated auto insurance system – one that supposedly favors consumers who shop around for the best rates – fewer than one in four drivers have actually done...
Oct 16 2008 // A Lawrence, Massachusetts man wanted for allegedly helping stage a car crash that resulted in the death of a great-grandmother and led to a statewide crackdown of auto insurance fraud has been arrested in New...
Oct 13 2008 // The Massachusetts insurance commissioner, addressing a concern of some insurers, is considering eliminating the unique right under which Bay State drivers have been able to appeal auto premium surcharges they consider...