All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2018 // Vermont is moving forward with its quest to ensure that as many residents as possible have health insurance by enacting a law that will require all to be covered or be penalized.The law, signed with no fanfare by...
Jun 6 2018 // A bill outlining various consumer protections regarding the use of credit-based insurance scores has passed the Vermont House and Senate and has been allowed to become law without the governor’s signature, effective...
May 24 2018 // Officials have closed two Burlington, Vt., beaches amid concerns about a sewage spill in the neighboring wetlands of Lake Champlain.Local 22 News reports concerns of a water main break in Burlington on Monday night led to...
May 23 2018 // A Vermont town says preliminary repair estimates for an old railroad causeway and bridge across a section of Lake Champlain are $563,000 after it was heavily damaged by a storm earlier this month.The May 4 storm caused the...
May 2 2018 // USA Risk Group (USARG), a Barre, Vt.-based independent captive management firm, has promoted Cindy Lyford to senior vice president.Lyford currently serves as office head for the Vermont and Western domiciled captive...
Apr 25 2018 // USA Risk Group, a Barre, Vt.-headquartered independent captive management firm, has named Peter Rasmussen vice president of business development.Rasmussen will be responsible for driving all sales activity, and in this...
Apr 13 2018 // A judge has approved freezing the remaining assets of a former Vermont ski resort owner who is being investigated on suspicion of investment fraud.Michael Pieciak, commissioner of the state Division of Financial...
Mar 27 2018 // Union Mutual of Vermont Companies, a property and casualty insurance group, has promoted John W. Amick, Anna G. Coon and Emile F. Willett Jr.Amick was promoted to vice president of claims, and Coon was named executive...
Feb 27 2018 // Neshobe Falls Insurance Agency recently joined Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast.Neshobe Falls Insurance is a full-service insurance agency founded in...
Feb 12 2018 // While possessing small amounts of marijuana will be legal in Vermont later this year, it will remain off-limits on the waters of Lake Champlain. The lake is considered federal water because it borders Canada. The...
Feb 7 2018 // A Miami businessman accused of massive fraud involving foreign investors’ money in a Vermont ski area has agreed to pay back more than $81 million and give up ownership of two ski resorts, the Securities and Exchange...
Feb 6 2018 // USA Risk Group (USARG), a Barre, Vt.-headquartered, independent captive management firm, has appointed Stephen Roseman as president and CEO.Roseman will lead USARG’s Operational Leadership Team (OLT) that has been in...
Jan 12 2018 // The Vermont Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that would allow the recreational use of marijuana, putting the state on course to become the first in the country to legalize pot by an act of the Legislature...
Jan 4 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the states of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the...
Jan 2 2018 // The University of Vermont Health Network is going to bring a wholly owned insurance company home to Vermont.The UVM Network’s captive insurance company, which provides malpractice insurance for its medical providers,...
Dec 11 2017 // A Vermont man whose mother and grandfather died in mysterious circumstances must turn over information related to a missing gun, as well as phone and other records, in a Rhode Island lawsuit over insurance on his sunken...
Dec 8 2017 // A Vermont man denied in court papers Wednesday allegations that he killed his millionaire grandfather in 2013 and claims he doesn’t know the whereabouts of his mother who disappeared after a boat they were on sank...
Nov 28 2017 // A Vermont organization that serves the state’s municipal governments says the town of Victory must comply with certain conditions of probation or lose its insurance.The Caledonian Record reports that the conditions...
Oct 30 2017 // The insurance provider for the small Vermont town of Victory has placed the town on probation after a series of legal disputes and internal strife among current and former elected officials.The board of the Vermont League...
Oct 16 2017 // If oceans warm at a rate predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nation-sponsored group that assesses climate change research and issues periodic reports, expected financial losses caused by...