All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 2 2009 // The Rhode Island Senate has declined to take up auto body legislation opposed by the insurance industry.The bill would have required consumers to have an independent appraisal for car repair work that exceeded $2,000. The...
Jul 2 2009 // All 14 hospitals in Rhode Island have agreed to adopt a uniform set of precautions to prevent surgeons from operating on the wrong body part or committing other grievous errors.Doctors and hospital officials said Tuesday...
Jun 24 2009 // Emmanuel Albaret has joined Manville, Rhode Island-based insurance agency, Hunter Insurance, Inc. as an account executive. Albaret specializes in commercial lines of insurance. He has seven years of experience in the...
Jun 19 2009 // A new law could save homeowners money when a hurricane off the Atlantic coast churns up weather strong enough to damage homes in Rhode Island but never reaches the state.Legislation signed last week by Gov. Don Carcieri...
Jun 19 2009 // A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges involving the theft of furniture from The Hartford insurance company.Thirty-five-year-old Michael Young of Coventry, R.I., pleaded guilty Wednesday to...
Jun 9 2009 // Rhode Island is receiving $2.3 million in stimulus funds to protect towns against flooding. The state’s congressional delegation announced Thursday that the money will go toward projects in Cranston and West...
Jun 1 2009 // Officials at a Providence, Rhode Island hospital group say an oral surgeon began operating on the wrong part of a patient’s mouth last month before discovering the error. It’s the fifth wrong-site surgery in...
May 4 2009 // AIG, AIUAmerican International Group, Inc. (AIG) has taken the first step to position the rebranding of its insurance units as an independent entity, AIU Holdings. AIG has transgered the company to a special purpose...
Mar 30 2009 // The Rhode Island Supreme Court may have derailed the state’s lawsuit against former lead paint companies last summer, but one critical issue still remains — and it’s worth millions of dollars.A judge will...
Mar 11 2009 // Wetsbrook, Connecticut-based insurance agency The Gowrie Group has officially opened its Newport, Rhode Island office. The office is located in the newly renovated 1831 Aquidneck Mill, which shares a 2.5 acre waterfront...
Mar 10 2009 // Survivors of a deadly nightclub fire and relatives of the 100 people killed are moving closer to sharing a $176 million court settlement.A federal magistrate judge on Friday approved a proposal for distributing the money...
Feb 10 2009 // Lawyers for the survivors and relatives of the 100 people killed in a nightclub fire almost six years ago asked a judge Friday to approve a formula to distribute proceeds from a $176 million settlement.The lawyers said in...
Feb 3 2009 // The Rhode Island town where a nightclub fire killed 100 people in 2003 says it needs help from the state to pay a $10 million settlement to survivors of the blaze and relatives of those who died.West Warwick plans to ask...
Jan 28 2009 // The state of Rhode Island must reimburse more than $242,000 to three companies that succeeded in overturning a jury verdict that could have forced them to spend billions of dollars cleaning up homes contaminated by lead...
Jan 12 2009 // A law school professor has submitted a plan for distributing $176 million in settlement money among the more than 300 people who sued after a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people.The proposal from Francis...
Dec 22 2008 // A former vice president at Rhode Island’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer, who was indicted two years ago for conspiracy and insurance fraud, is facing a new indictment.David R. Clark, the former vice...
Dec 8 2008 // Rhode Island’s highest court is hearing arguments on whether to release jury questionnaires in the case of Station nightclub co-owner Michael Derderian, who was charged after a 2003 fire that killed 100 people. The...
Dec 4 2008 // A Rhode Island state senator says he will introduce three bills in response to a federal report that said the Ocean State is not doing enough to crack down on drunken driving.The National Transportation Safety Board...
Dec 2 2008 // Federal transportation officials say Rhode Island’s efforts to curb drunken driving are falling short.The National Transportation Safety Board this week said that the Ocean State is one of bottom three states in the...
Nov 24 2008 // Natick, Massachusetts-based insurance agency Eastern Insurance Group has appointed David H. Chase Jr. and Craig E. Dunlop as vice presidents in commercial lines sales.Both will be based out of Eastern’s new branch...