All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 10 2013 // The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation approved this month a 7.4 percent overall voluntary loss cost increase for new and renewal workers’ compensation policies. The change will take effect in August. The...
Jul 8 2013 // The Rhode Island Legislature passed legislation before adjournment on July 3 that could impact the pockets of Rhode Islanders when they have to pay for auto body repairs, according to the Property Casualty Insurers...
Jun 26 2013 // This week, Rhode Island lawmakers are negotiating the final details of the state’s $8.2 billion budget. One controversial part of the discussion has been what Rhode Island should do with the state’s failed...
Jun 13 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday that more than $39.4 million in support from four federal disaster relief programs is helping Rhode Island recover from Superstorm Sandy’s effects. FEMA said the...
Jun 6 2013 // Officials in Rhode Island are creating a new position to prosecute fraud in the state’s unemployment and workers’ compensation program.The state’s Department of Labor and Training announced the new...
Jun 5 2013 // Rhode Island’s Republican Party chairman has joined the call for the state to default on the money it owes for its failed investment in former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s bankrupt video game company.Mark...
Jun 4 2013 // Protesters unhappy with Rhode Island’s failed investment in former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s video game company urged state leaders last week to default on the money the state owes for the...
May 23 2013 // The owners of the Station nightclub say they didn’t know they needed to buy workers’ compensation insurance for the club’s part-time employees.Michael and Jeffrey Derderian are asking Rhode Island’s...
May 17 2013 // Rhode Island labor officials have asked the state Supreme Court not to review the $1 million fine levied against the former owners of the Station nightclub. Michael and Jeffrey Derderian are appealing the fine, levied for...
May 9 2013 // Rhode Island lawmakers reviewed legislation Tuesday that would allow immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses regardless of their legal status — but the controversial idea has already run into opposition from law...
Apr 24 2013 // The owners of a Rhode Island nightclub where 100 people died in a fire are asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a $1 million fine against them for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance for nearly...
Apr 8 2013 // Carey, Richmond & Viking Insurance, an independent property/casualty insurance agency with offices in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, announced Lori Lyle and Peter O’Neill have joined the firm as commercial...
Apr 2 2013 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Superintendent Joseph Torti III issued a bulletin last week that affirmed that punitive damages are not insurable under the state’s law.“Punitive damages are not insurable under...
Mar 27 2013 // Maine will be eligible for federal help to cover the costs of a blizzard that hit in early February.President Barack Obama on Monday approved Gov. Paul LePage’s request for a disaster declaration. The declaration...
Mar 21 2013 // Gowrie Group, an independent insurance agency based in Westbrook, Conn., appointed Kiley Prime as a personal lines and equine insurance specialist. She resides in Newport, R.I., and will service clients from the Newport...
Feb 11 2013 // Aon plc, a global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and HR consulting and outsourcing services, recently announced the addition of Mark Sweeney as vice president in the Providence, R.I....
Feb 11 2013 // Emergency crews and residents struggled to clear roadways and sidewalks from a storm that rampaged through the Northeast, dumping up to 3 feet of snow and bringing howling winds that knocked out power to hundreds of...
Jan 31 2013 // A Rhode Island judge is questioning why the owners of a nightclub where 100 people died in a fire in 2003 still haven’t paid a $1 million penalty for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance.The...
Jan 29 2013 // Pawtucket, R.I.-based Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. named industry veteran Kirk Lusk as the new chief financial officer.Kirk LuskAs CFO, Lusk will provide financial oversight including developing operating and financial...
Dec 28 2012 // The deputy speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives has been sentenced to serve time in federal prison for tax fraud involving his insurance adjuster firm.Rep. John McCauley — the owner and co-operator of...