All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 13 2008 // When Jenny and John Crowley learned they were having a baby, they did the responsible thing: they bought life insurance.Barely in their 30s, they passed the insurance company’s physicals, applied for a $500,000...
May 8 2008 // New carriers in the Massachusetts auto insurance market will be exempt from high risk assignments for their first two years under an amended rule approved by Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes.The original...
May 8 2008 // Massachusetts insurance officials have blocked a 13.2 percent statewide rate hike by the state’s residual market home insurer.The decision by Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes also kills a 25 percent increase...
May 6 2008 // Independent agents in Massachusetts have charged that Progressive Insurance, which began selling auto insurance online in the state May 1, is skirting state regulations and misleading consumers with its Web site quoting...
May 5 2008 // Massachusetts auto insurers have been operating under a new managed competition auto insurance system for only a month now but a battle is well underway over how to treat newcomers to the state.The Patrick administration...
May 5 2008 // The Patrick administration is pushing a rule that exempts new auto insurers in Massachusetts from having to accept costly high risk drivers for the first several years of operating in the state — a rule existing insurers...
May 5 2008 // Travelers Insurance is consolidating some of its personal lines business center activities across the country, a plan that will mean fewer jobs in Massachusetts and New Jersey but more in upstate New York.Travelers...
May 5 2008 // The Patrick Administration announced an agreement in the 2008 workers’ compensation rate-setting proceeding that will save Massachusetts businesses $11 million. The new rates average to a 1 percent reduction per...
May 1 2008 // Progressive Insurance begins selling personal auto insurance online in Massachusetts today.Meanwhile, Casco Indemnity, which writes auto insurance in the other New England states on behalf of several mutual fire insurers,...
Apr 22 2008 // Insurance agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic are worried about how their customers and they will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow.“An agent’s business is a direct reflection of...
Apr 22 2008 // Growing up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Henry Wainer remembers driving past the old Alden Corrugated Container Co. on trips out of the city. Then one day, the single-story cardboard box factory burned.The city bulldozed...
Apr 22 2008 // The sunny spring days may be a relief after this winter’s snows, but dry weather is also creating fire hazards across Massachusetts.On Saturday, 189 woodland brush fires burned more than 375 acres, sometimes...
Apr 21 2008 // Massachusetts will permit auto insurers to sell six-month policies in another change under the state’s newly operational managed competition system that gives insurers more freedom.Independent agents have balked at...
Apr 21 2008 // A construction worker on Boston’s “Big Dig” highway project is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he suffered after he fell asleep while driving home late from work, the...
Apr 21 2008 // A state Web site intended to educate consumers about Massachusetts’ newly deregulated auto insurance market instead gives them inaccurate rate comparisons, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.Coakley argued...
Apr 17 2008 // The Patrick Administration announced an agreement in the 2008 workers’ compensation rate setting proceeding that will save Massachusetts businesses $11 million. The new rates average to a 1.0 percent reduction per...
Apr 16 2008 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance, one of three lead state regulators in a multi-state examination of the Unum Group’s handling of disability claims, said the country’s leading writer of disability...
Apr 15 2008 // Travelers Insurance is consolidating some of its personal lines business center activities across the country, a plan that will mean fewer jobs in Massachusetts and New Jersey but more in upstate New York.Travelers...
Apr 10 2008 // Massachusetts will permit auto insurers to sell six-month policies in another change under the state’s newly operational managed competition system that gives insurers more freedom and drivers more...
Apr 9 2008 // Seven people have been indicted in Essex County (Massachusetts) for allegedly conspiring to stage automobile accidents to collect insurance payments.A grand jury returned the indictments last Friday against two attorneys,...