All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2017 // A New Jersey yacht captain is barred from piloting ships as he awaits trial in the death of an 81-year-old Connecticut boater in Rhode Island waters.U.S. District Court Magistrate Patricia Sullivan ordered Cooper...
Dec 8 2017 // Eliclade’s Service Inc. of Cranston, R.I., recently joined Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast.Through this affiliation, Eliclade’s Service...
Nov 28 2017 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc., a Clearwater, Fla.-headquartered property/casualty insurance holding company, has secured regulatory approval from the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation to acquire NBIC...
Nov 20 2017 // Federal authorities say five Rhode Island residents have been charged with participating in a scheme to create fake prescriptions for opioid pills and occasionally use medical insurance to pay for those prescriptions. The...
Nov 15 2017 // Prime Holdings Insurance Services Inc. (Prime Holdings) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (Prime), recently received approval to write specialty lines insurance coverage in New Hampshire and Rhode...
Nov 15 2017 // Salt Lake City, UT, Chicago, Illinois, November 15, 2017- Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (“Prime Holdings”) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (“Prime”), recently...
Nov 6 2017 // Federal authorities say five Rhode Island residents have been charged with participating in a scheme to create fake prescriptions for opioid pills and occasionally use medical insurance to pay for those prescriptions.The...
Oct 31 2017 // Severe weather pounded the Northeast region with powerful winds and drenching rains early Monday, leaving nearly 300,000 without power.Southern New England appeared to suffer the brunt of the storm damage overnight....
Aug 21 2017 // The board of directors of Beacon Mutual Insurance Company, a Warwick, R.I.-based workers’ compensation carrier, has elected Brian Spero as president and CEO of the company, effective in July.Beacon’s board...
Aug 10 2017 // Lawyers for a man suspected of killing his millionaire grandfather in 2013 have met with a judge in a lawsuit over the sinking of his boat with his mother onboard.Nathan Carman’s boat sank last year. His mother is...
Aug 9 2017 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc., a Clearwater, Fla.-headquartered property and casualty insurance holding company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire NBIC Holdings Inc., the parent company of Narragansett Bay...
Aug 4 2017 // The board of directors of Beacon Mutual Insurance Company, a Warwick, R.I.-based workers’ compensation carrier, has elected Brian Spero as president and CEO of the company, effective in July.Beacon’s board...
Aug 1 2017 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., headquartered in East Providence, R.I., has promoted Sean Cottrell and Elizabeth Lowe to senior vice president of Starkweather & Shepley.Cottrell is the practice...
Jul 20 2017 // The Rhode Island State Police has issued a $57,000 fine against the company that owns the flatbed truck that was ruled too heavy for state bridges.Police announced the fine against Bay Crane Northeast Tuesday. The...
Jul 7 2017 // The committee that organizes the nation’s oldest continuous Fourth of July celebration says it’s trying to figure out how a woman was struck by a parade float and wants to prevent future accidents.The crash...
Jun 27 2017 // OceanPoint Insurance Agency has acquired Christopher & Regan Insurance of North Kingstown, R.I.The acquisition comes as OceanPoint Insurance has been seeking to expand its coverage in North Kingstown and South County,...
May 24 2017 // Independent insurance agencies in Rhode Island have a new market for coastal homes – Spinnaker Insurance Company. Spinnaker’s New England distributor, Insurance Agency and Customer Service Company (IACSC) of...
May 4 2017 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., an East Providence, R.I.-headquartered independent insurance agency and insurance brokerage, has hired Tim Hillberg as a commercial lines sales producer.Hillberg’s...
May 3 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Keough Kirby Associates (KK) of Woonsocket, R.I. The transaction became effective April 1, 2017.As an established agency in New England, KK has been providing property and casualty,...
May 1 2017 // A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for setting fire to his restaurant to collect nearly $1 million in insurance.The U.S. attorney’s office in Rhode Island says 51-year-old Daniel...