All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Apr 9 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 9 2008 // Scott McClure has joined Amity Insurance Agency, Inc. in Quincy, Mass. as a commercial property and liability consultant. In this role, McClure will develop new business focusing on commercial property, including...
Apr 8 2008 // The Massachusetts state pension fund cannot and should not start a bond insurer, executive director Michael Travaglini said Monday.Travaglini, who oversees the $52 billion Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, said...
Apr 7 2008 // Dr. Dangerous“(She is an) immediate and serious threat to public health.” —The Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachusetts, commenting on the case of Winchester Hospital obstetrician Suzanne Rothchild....
Apr 7 2008 // Agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states are worried about how they and their customers will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow.“An agent’s business is a direct reflection of his...
Apr 7 2008 // The Workers Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau, which represents insurers, submitted its filing on Feb. 29. The bureau has requested a Sept. 1, 2008 effective date for new rates. A hearing was held April 3.The rates...
Apr 3 2008 // A state Web site intended to educate consumers about Massachusetts’ newly deregulated auto insurance market instead gives them inaccurate rate comparisons, Attorney General Martha Coakley said Tuesday on the day the...
Apr 2 2008 // Teen deaths and speeding citations each fell by about a third during the first year Massachusetts had tougher penalties for violating its Junior Operator License Law, state officials said.The number of 16- and 17-year-old...
Apr 1 2008 // Today — April Fool’s Day — is the day when competitive rating in the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market becomes real.No kidding. For the first time in more than three decades, the state is...