All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 10 2008 // Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s Republican challenger in Massachusetts called on him to sell any stock he has in insurance giant American International Group and donate all campaign contributions from officials at the...
Oct 6 2008 // Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. is now offering its MYLES –Make Your Life Easier Services program — free of charge to all of its Massachusetts customers. The insurer says MYLES customers can save time, money and...
Oct 3 2008 // Five years after the creation of Massachusetts’ first local anti-insurance fraud team, the state’s Insurance Fraud Bureau says the combined local task forces have charged over 1,000 people with insurance...
Sep 30 2008 // Needham, Mass.-based Provider Insurance Group, Inc. has acquired the James Gorman Insurance Agency’s personal lines of insurance. The acquisition includes about 300 accounts of personal lines of insurance and 80...
Sep 25 2008 // A Dartmouth woman has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for paying more than $40 million in cash wages through the temporary employment agencies she ran with her husband in order to evade millions of dollars...
Sep 25 2008 // CMIC, a doctor-owned medical malpractice insurer, announced a 2.7 percent overall rate reduction in its claims made rates for Massachusetts doctors effective Oct. 1, 2008. Denise Funk, CEO of CMIC, credited the continued...
Sep 23 2008 // Hospitality Mutual Insurance Co. In Westboro, Mass., announced that John W. Tympanick has been named president and chief executive officer and has been appointed to its board of directors. Hospitality Mutual, a mutual...
Sep 11 2008 // State investigators found more than 56 people under the legal drinking age of 21 in possession of alcohol last weekend as part of an ongoing effort to crack down on underage drinking across the state.The Alcoholic...
Sep 5 2008 // Boston-based Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. said it will reward its new and renewing auto insurance policyholders in Massachusetts with lower rates for “going green,” by driving less. Plymouth Rock will lower...
Sep 1 2008 // Aon, BenfieldChicago-based Aon Corp. is acquiring UK-based broker Benfield Group Limited for about $1.75 billion. The price includes $6.55 (£3.50) per share in cash and assumption of $170 million (£91 million) of...
Aug 28 2008 // Property owners in Danvers, Mass., have approved a $6.6 million settlement offer by the co-owners of a paint factory that exploded in 2006 and caused major damage to their neighborhood.The deal, overwhelmingly approved at...
Aug 25 2008 // The co-owners of a Danvers, Massachusetts, paint factory that exploded and caused extensive damage to the surrounding neighborhood have proposed a $6.6 million settlement.According to a settlement proposal, factory...
Aug 21 2008 // Massachusetts is experiencing a big jump in health insurance and a big drop in payments for the uninsured under the state’s health care law.Between Jan. 1 and March 31, the number of people getting health insurance...
Aug 21 2008 // Allied World, DarwinBermuda-based Allied World Assurance Co., Ltd. has agreed to acquire Connecticut-based Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. Darwin offers specialty and primary professional lines coverages, which...
Aug 21 2008 // Delays in the processing of criminal traffic violations have allowed a large number of serious violators to remain on the road in Massachusetts after their licenses should have been suspended or revoked.According to State...