All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 23 2015 // Vermont’s largest insurance carrier is trying to recover more than $500,000 in claims for 600 patients who mistakenly received benefits due to a Vermont Health Connect’s technological error. The state’s...
Jun 17 2015 // Vermont’s new child safety law shifts the state’s priority in protecting children to their well-being from an imperative to reunite them with their families, officials said Monday during the governor’s...
Jun 1 2015 // Benjamin M. Lawsky announced his plan to leave the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) in late June after four years serving as the newly created agency’s first superintendent.Lawsky was nominated...
May 19 2015 // NFP, a New York City-based provider of employee benefits, property/casualty insurance, retirement and wealth management services, announced its acquisition of Hackett Valine & MacDonald Inc. (HVM)., an independent...
May 18 2015 // Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed new legislation passed in April that brings several changes to the state’s captive insurance rules – including changes to the investment guidelines to allow “marketable...
May 11 2015 // Terry Moore Vermont Mutual Insurance Group has appointed Terry Moore as vice president of underwriting. He will be based in Vermont Mutual’s Montpelier, Vermont, headquarters. Moore comes to Vermont Mutual from...
May 7 2015 // State police across New England launched the region’s first coordinated crackdown on speeding and failing to wear seat belts.Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday announced the “New England Drive to Save...
May 6 2015 // Vermont officials announced that Gov. Peter Shumlin will sign new legislation passed in April that would bring several changes to the state’s captive insurance rules — including changes to the investment...
May 4 2015 // The Hartford named Kathy Bromage as chief marketing and communications officer and David Robinson as executive vice president and general counsel, effective June 1, 2015.Bromage joined The Hartford in 2004 as chief...
Apr 23 2015 // Vermont is one of a growing number of states looking at following Colorado and Washington’s lead by legalizing marijuana, but there’s a problem. How can police identify those too stoned to drive?The Vermont...
Apr 17 2015 // Daniel C. Bridge Vermont Mutual Insurance Group announced that its Board of Directors has elected Executive Vice President Daniel C. Bridge as president of the Group. Bridge succeeds President and CEO William A. Catto who...
Apr 15 2015 // The IRS is growing increasingly uncomfortable that an increasing number of smaller companies and professional firms have been doing what larger companies do — creating their own or joining a captive insurer.The IRS...
Apr 14 2015 // The Main Street America Group’s NGM Insurance Co. has introduced an expanded workers’ compensation program in Vermont via its network of independent insurance agents across the state.NGM’s expanded...
Apr 6 2015 // Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy has appointed Katharine L. Wade as new commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department.Wade succeeds Thomas B. Leonardi who stepped down from the post in December to join New York...
Mar 17 2015 // Vermont Mutual Insurance Group announced Group President and CEO William A. Catto will retire from the company on June 30, 2015. The company said it expects to announce Catto’s successor after its board meeting in...
Mar 12 2015 // As Vermont’s health care reform chief was about to address lawmakers Tuesday on Vermont’s trouble-plagued health insurance exchange, his computer presentation couldn’t get started.“Once again,...
Feb 9 2015 // Vermont licensed 16 new captives in 2014 and the state’s captive insurance gross written premium is nearing $30 billion, according to the Vermont Captive Insurance Division.The new captives were made up of 10 pure...
Feb 4 2015 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to Vermont to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area...
Feb 3 2015 // Spencer Capital Holdings Ltd., the parent company of reinsurer Spencer Re, has agreed to acquire USA Risk Group, an independent captive insurance manager based in Barre, Vermont. Financial terms of the transaction were not...
Jan 26 2015 // Vermont gets a grade of “A+” and California and North Carolina get grades of “F” in the annual report card on state insurance regulation issued by the free market think tank, The R Street...