All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2007 // Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri and other state officials are renewing a push to relax Rhode Island’s fire code after a bill that proposed major revisions died in the General Assembly earlier this summer.Carcieri...
Aug 6 2007 // A neurosurgeon at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence has been disciplined for operating on the wrong side of a patient’s brain, the third time such an error has occurred at the hospital in the last six years.The...
Aug 2 2007 // Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. will pay a $2.5 million fine, refund $7 million to policyholders and continue to implement various management changes as the result of a long-awaited audit by Rhode Island officials of the...
Jul 23 2007 // Siding with State Police who said it would create an “unnecessary and burdensome increase in paperwork,” Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri for the second year has vetoed a bill to give motorists who are ticketed...
Jul 20 2007 // Rhode Island’s public transit authority has paid out $5.5 million in the last seven fiscal years to settle injury claims, according to records provided by the agency.The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority two...
Jul 11 2007 // Rhode Island crews were working Monday evening to restore electricity to six state departments that lost power earlier in the day because of an underground electrical fire, officials said.The outages at the Pastore Campus...
Jul 2 2007 // Fallout from the management scandal at Rhode Island workers’ compensation insurer Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. was stirred anew last month when Gov. Donald L. Carcieri withdrew the renomination of Adelita Orefice as...
Jun 26 2007 // Legislation entitling business owners to a tax credit if they are forced to install sprinklers or new fire alarms has stalled in the General Assembly, but the bill’s backers said they were hopeful it could still pass...
Jun 26 2007 // Siding with State Police who said it would create an “unnecessary and burdensome increase in paperwork,” Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri for the second year has vetoed a bill to give motorists who are ticketed...
Jun 21 2007 // The fallout from the management scandal at Rhode Island workers’ compensation insurer Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. continued this week, even as the insurer unveiled its board of directors.Rhode Island Governor Donald...
Jun 18 2007 // R.I. House members forward coastal measuresThe leaders of a special Rhode Island House commission studying the effects of natural disasters on property insurance costs have introduced legislation they say is aimed at...
Jun 18 2007 // Gregg Effner has joined The Main Street America Group as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner will be based at the headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and report to Doug Eden, senior vice president...
Jun 8 2007 // Legislation to give motorists a one-business-day grace period to produce their auto insurance card if asked to do so by a police officer has been approved by the Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives and is...
Jun 6 2007 // More than a year after the state won a landmark lawsuit against former manufacturers of lead paint, the two sides remain at a gaping impasse over how the cleanup of contaminated properties in Rhode Island should be carried...
May 31 2007 // The leaders of a special Rhode Island House commission studying the effects of natural disasters on property insurance costs have introduced legislation they say is aimed at protecting coastal homeowners from...
May 29 2007 // The leaders of a special Rhode Island House commission studying the effects of natural disasters on property insurance costs plan to introduce legislation next week on insurance practices connected to hurricane...
May 21 2007 // Rhode Island’s estimated budget deficit could grow by almost $100 million because of a stalled settlement with an insurer accused of deceptive business practices, state officials warn.As part of a massive settlement...
May 21 2007 // Rhode Island’s estimated budget deficit could grow by almost $100 million because of a stalled settlement with an insurer accused of deceptive business practices, state officials warn.As part of a massive settlement...
May 17 2007 // Three former lead paint manufacturers who lost a landmark lawsuit last year could learn by mid-September what the state wants them to do to clean up contaminated properties in Rhode Island — a process that is estimated...
May 16 2007 // An arson task force is investigating a string of six fires that have broken out in the seaport city of Newport, R.I. since May, three of them in just the past week.On Sunday, fires that started within a few hours of each...