All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2015 // The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island has filed a court challenge to the state Division of Motor Vehicles’ implementation of a database designed to identify uninsured drivers.The ACLU says the database...
Jan 29 2015 // A blizzard in the Northeast this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island in New York, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record...
Jan 29 2015 // New Englanders savaged by a blizzard packing knee-high snowfall and hurricane-force winds began digging out Wednesday, grudgingly praising forecasters who got grief from New Yorkers and others spared its full fury.The...
Jan 14 2015 // Kellie Dougherty Stateline Insurance & Financial Services, an independent agency in East Providence, Rhode Island, has hired Kellie Dougherty as commercial lines representative. Dougherty has over 10 years of...
Jan 12 2015 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Superintendent Joseph Torti III issued a bulletin on Dec. 22 on the Ocean State transitioning to new license categories for adjusters.“Effective Jan. 1, 2015 the Rhode Island Insurance...
Dec 24 2014 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Superintendent Joseph Torti III issued a bulletin this week on transitioning to new license categories for adjusters.“Effective Jan. 1, 2015 the Rhode Island Insurance Claim Adjuster...
Dec 19 2014 // Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has contested a citation it received from federal regulators for an accident that sent eight hair-hanging acrobats plummeting to the ground during a live performance, severely...
Dec 4 2014 // S&S Insurance Solutions of Florida, a division of East Providence, Rhode Island-based Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage, has acquired Imperial Insurance of Naples, Florida. Terms of the transaction were...
Nov 5 2014 // Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus misused a key rigging component in a hair-hanging stunt, causing a fall that seriously injured eight acrobats from the U.S., Brazil, Bulgaria and Ukraine, federal workplace...
Nov 3 2014 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. in East Providence, Rhode Island, has acquired Universal Insurance Agency of Smithfield, Rhode Island. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Under the transaction,...
Oct 27 2014 // Amica Mutual Insurance Co. in Lincoln, Rhode Island, announced that Robert A. DiMuccio, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Amica Mutual, was honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award at the NAACP...
Oct 20 2014 // Christine Porter OceanPoint Insurance Agency Inc. in Middletown, Rhode Island, has hired Christine Porter as director of sales. Porter will oversee the sales management of all OceanPoint products, including personal...
Sep 30 2014 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service firms, announced it has acquired the...
Sep 16 2014 // FM Global has promoted six executives to new senior management roles, effective Oct. 1, 2014.Bret N. Ahnell, senior vice president, Western division manager, will become an executive vice president. He will oversee various...
Sep 10 2014 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. in East Providence, Rhode Island, recently announced the following promotions.David B. Soforenko has been promoted to sales manager of Starkweather & Shepley...
Aug 25 2014 // The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT) announced last week that it has cut the administrative assessment rate charged to insurance companies providing workers’ comp coverage in Rhode Island.For...
Jul 28 2014 // A Rhode Island hospital has agreed to pay $150,000 in Massachusetts after losing backup tapes that contained the personal information of more than 12,000 Massachusetts residents.Massachusetts Attorney General Martha...
Jul 24 2014 // FM Global appointed Peter Pettinicchio as vice president and manager for global client services and sales operations. He is based in FM Global’s Johnston, Rhode Island, headquarters. Pettinicchio joined FM Global in...
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
Jun 18 2014 // Seven of the eight hair-hanging circus acrobats who fell to the floor during a “human chandelier” stunt in the U.S. last month have hired a law firm to represent them, the firm announced Monday.The women were...