All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2005 // A federal judge in Providence dismissed an insurance company and two other defendants from a civil lawsuit brought by survivors of a deadly 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire and by relatives of those who died.U.S. District...
Nov 10 2005 // The brothers who owned a Rhode Island nightclub where 100 people died in a 2003 fire offered detailed testimony about their finances for more than three hours this week as part of their ongoing bankruptcy...
Nov 9 2005 // A salesman who sold the flammable foam that spread a deadly fire through a Rhode Island nightclub in 2003 said it was his company’s policy to not warn customers of the potential dangers of the product, according to...
Nov 2 2005 // The R.I. Department of Business Regulation has approved a 10 percent rate hike for NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co., the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer, effective Jan. 1, 2006.The department has also agreed...
Oct 23 2005 // The owners of a West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people submitted a list of their assets in a Providence court last week, providing a detailed view of their finances a month after filing for...
Oct 18 2005 // Hoping to streamline the handling of cases, the Rhode Island Superior Court is experimenting with a mandatory mediation program for all medical malpractice cases assigned to the trial calendar in Providence County.Since...
Oct 4 2005 // Saying that affordable health care should be within the reach for all Rhode Islanders, Governor Donald L. Carcieri this week laid out a series of five initiatives to improve the state’s system of care by the eyar...
Oct 4 2005 // Medical insurer ProSelect has received approval for an average 2.3 percent increase in physicians’ and surgeons’ medical malpractice insurance rates in Rhode Island. However, the insurer lost its bid for an...
Oct 2 2005 // Rhode Island is eligible for a $3.7 million grant if it strengthens its seat belt law to allow law enforcement officers to stop and issue citations to motorists based solely on a seat belt violation, which is referred to...
Sep 28 2005 // Workers’ compensation carriers have filed for a slight 2.3 percent overall reduction in loss costs in Rhode Island.The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation has scheduled a public hearing for Nov. 16 on the...
Sep 28 2005 // Radio station WHJY will remain a defendant in a civil lawsuit resulting from The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island.The lawsuit filed on behalf of 146 survivors and 80 victims’ families names the radio station as...
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...