All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 25 2005 // The owners of a Rhode Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people filed for bankruptcy last Friday, saying they faced a staggering amount of debt and could no longer pay off their creditors.Jeffrey and Michael...
Sep 5 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSFed Probe Firing of MassMutual CEO: Federal prosecutors are investigating the conduct that led to the firing of former MassMutual Insurance Comany chief executive Robert J. O’Connell, the company...
Sep 5 2005 // Rhode Island has some of the weakest drunken driving laws in the nation, and was the only state to receive a “poor” rating in a survey of legislation to reduce drunken driving, according to a national highway...
Aug 28 2005 // The Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles sent out letters this weekend to 11,000 new teenage drivers in Rhode Island alerting them to a new law that limits the number of underage passengers who can ride with them.There...
Aug 25 2005 // The owners of a Rhode Island nightclub where 100 people were killed in a 2003 fire are scheduled to go to trial Sept. 30 to determine whether they are able to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the families of workers...
Aug 16 2005 // Rhode Island has some of the weakest drunken driving laws in the nation, and was the only state to receive a “poor” rating in a survey of legislation to reduce drunken driving, according to a national highway...
Jul 20 2005 // Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch wants to block the state’s largest health insurer from starting a market research subsidiary, saying Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island could use such...
Jul 18 2005 // The DuPont Co. has reached a multimillion dollar settlement in a landmark lawsuit brought by Rhode Island against makers of lead paint. According to the state attorney general, six other manufacturers remain as defendants...
Jul 15 2005 // Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri has vetoed a bill that would have permitted the state’s largest workers compensation insurer, Beacon Mutual, to restructure and expand into other states.Carcieri blasted the...
Jul 6 2005 // Concern over insurance for coastal properties is mounting in Rhode Island, where markets are tight despite the fact that no hurricane beyond a category 1 has hit since Hurricane Carol in 1954.Some 30 Rhode Island...
Jul 1 2005 // The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today urged all state and local governments to adopt and aggressively enforce national model building and fire safety codes for...
Jun 27 2005 // Chrysler Financial, a business unit of DaimlerChrysler Services North America LLC, will cease leasing cars in Rhode Island beginning August 1, 2005, if the current vicarious liability legislation passed by the state...
Jun 24 2005 // A compromise worked out by a Rhode Island state Senate committee would push implementation of the state’s new lead paint law back to Nov. 1.The Committee on Health and Human Services this week approved the plan to...
Jun 16 2005 // The Rhode Island Health Department has drafted guidelines that would govern drug imports from Canada, and help ensure the medications meet quality and safety standards in Rhode Island.The proposed rules would be another...
Jun 14 2005 // The Rhode Island Senate has joined the House of Representatives in approving legislation to require a hike in the liability coverage of garages that perform bi-annual vehicle inspections required by the state.Sponsored by...
Jun 7 2005 // The Rhode Island Supreme Court has lifted a stay on the payment of about $180,000 in death benefits to the families of four employees killed in The Station nightclub fire.The owners of the club, Jeffrey and Michael...
May 24 2005 // The Rhode Island House of Representatives passed a bill last week that would require insurance carriers to respond to a request to settle with an uninsured driver within 60 days of the request; if the request has not been...
May 23 2005 // Cars passing muster at any of Rhode Island’s recognized vehicle inspection stations should not come out of the testing facility in worse condition than when they went in, according to Sen. Daniel Da Ponte (D-Dist....
May 23 2005 // Investors Plan Small, Focused Writer of Homes, Including on Coasts, in Mass., R.I., N.Y.The investors in line to revitalize the 157-year old Pawtucket Mutual Insurance and its subsidiary Narragansett Bay Insurance...
May 23 2005 // Cars passing muster at any of Rhode Island’s recognized vehicle inspection stations should not come out of the testing facility in worse condition than when they went in, according to Sen. Daniel Da Ponte (D-Dist....