All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 16 2010 // Rhode Island’s Supreme Court has ruled that a man who became a quadriplegic when he fell from Newport’s Cliff Walk while on his honeymoon can move forward with his lawsuit.The city of Newport wanted to re-argue...
Jun 16 2010 // The Rhode Island Chapter of the National Association of Insurance Women has elected Kim Cabral as its new president.Other officers for the organization are Vice President Gail Marsigliano, Treasurer Debra A. Quinlivan and...
Jun 7 2010 // A former executive at Rhode Island’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer was acquitted last month on a charge that he deceived state regulators about companies that were receiving discounted...
May 27 2010 // Three companies that sold lead-based paint and were sued by the state in a landmark case cannot recover money they spent defending themselves in the lawsuit, a judge has ruled.Rhode Island in February 2006 won a jury...
May 24 2010 // A former executive at Rhode Island’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer was acquitted Friday on a charge that he deceived state regulators about companies that were receiving discounted premiums.Superior...
May 21 2010 // Hundreds of drivers who had their licenses suspended without being told why can keep driving until they get a hearing to resolve the issue, the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles said.The American Civil Liberties...
Apr 28 2010 // A Rhode Island man is suing the state Division of Motor Vehicles, saying the agency told him his license was being suspended but failed to give a valid reason. Gerald Carbone, of Warwick, says he received a notice last...
Apr 7 2010 // Several of Rhode Island’s elected officials said Monday they are pushing to secure federal grants instead of loans for hundreds of businesses trying to recover from the worst flooding in 200 years, although a week...
Mar 7 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group, Rowland, Rudd, Peel & HollandPennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group (KIG) has added three more Kentucky agencies as partners. Those agencies are: Rowland Insurance Agency Inc., with...
Feb 22 2010 // PURE Risk Management LLC is expanding its Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), a member-owned reciprocal insurer, to offer property/casualty insurance coverage on high value homes in Rhode Island. PURE will...
Jan 29 2010 // The town of Middletown, Rhode Island agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused it of polluting prized state beaches by illegally discharging millions of gallons of sewage-laced wastewater.The town, located just north of...
Jan 22 2010 // A Rhode Island lawmaker is renewing his push to ban drivers from using hand-held cell phones while behind the wheel.Pawtucket Democrat Peter Kilmartin introduced a bill Tuesday that bans drivers and bicyclists from using...
Jan 20 2010 // Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has proposed reassigning investigators to probe workers’ compensation fraud but giving them far broader powers to prevent the misuse of state government funds.The proposal was contained...
Dec 29 2009 // When Bob Hagan was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio, people equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city.After graduating from high school...
Dec 22 2009 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. will begin offering homeowners coverage to Rhode Island policyholders of Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Co. as part of a renewal right agreement between the two insurers.Narragansett Bay will...
Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....
Dec 18 2009 // Lawyers for victims of a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people have asked a judge to approve a trust fund that will pay out $176 million in settlement proceeds.The request was made in court papers filed...
Dec 14 2009 // Rhode Island regulators have fined a major insurance company $5,000 for allegedly interfering with a driver’s right to choose his own garage for repair work.The Department of Business Regulation determined that...
Dec 8 2009 // Lawyers for the victims of a deadly 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people in Rhode Island hope to get a final settlement plan to a federal judge in roughly two weeks. Attorney Mark Mandell said in court last Thursday...
Dec 3 2009 // Oscar-nominated actor James Woods settled a lawsuit against a Rhode Island hospital where his brother, Michael, died, a judge announced this week.A hospital executive apologized and agreed to start an institute in his...