All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
Jan 22 2015 // Vermont licensed 16 new captives in 2014 and the state’s captive insurance gross written premium is nearing $30 billion, according to data released today by the Vermont Captive Insurance Division.The new captives...
Jan 12 2015 // Vermont’s Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, who was sworn in to a third two-year term last Thursday, will reappoint Susan L. Donegan as commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR). Shumlin defeated...
Jan 8 2015 // Preliminary reports show that Vermont traffic fatalities declined 38 percent in 2014 to the lowest number since World War II.The Vermont Highway Safety Alliance says 43 people died on the state’s roadways last year,...
Jan 8 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...
Dec 5 2014 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently delivered a workers’ compensation loss cost filing to the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation.Based upon its review of the most recently available...
Dec 3 2014 // The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) said Cigna Behavioral Health Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to Vermont as the result of an investigation by DFR.DFR Commissioner Susan L. Donegan said today that...
Dec 3 2014 // Vermont dairy farmers face a Friday deadline to enroll in a new price protection program.The Margin Protection Program is a voluntary insurance program that enables dairy farmers to protect themselves from low prices. The...
Nov 25 2014 // The Vermont Governor’s Highway Safety Program is going to be sponsoring a holiday “Click It or Ticket” campaign to encourage the use of seat belts and child safety seats.Beginning on Wednesday, Nov. 26,...
Sep 24 2014 // A Vermont town is going to repay $33,000 it received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for helping repair damage from flooding in 2011.Assistant town manager Dave Ormiston told the St. Johnsbury select board...
Sep 17 2014 // Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin says the state is temporarily shutting down the Vermont Health Connect website so it can be fixed before the start of the next enrollment period in November.Shumlin and other state officials said...
Sep 2 2014 // Three years after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene made most of Vermont’s state office complex in Waterbury unusable, its replacement is rising out of what was a sodden mess that reeked of the nearby Winooski...
Aug 27 2014 // The Vermont state auditor’s office will be doing an audit of the actions taken to fix the state’s troubled online health insurance marketplace.Auditor Doug Hoffer sent a letter to state officials last week. The...
Aug 25 2014 // Vermont is preparing to implement new rules that encourage communities to take steps to reduce future flood damage in exchange for more money to help them recover from the next big flood.Communities across Vermont have...
Aug 22 2014 // A.M. Best has upgraded the financial strength rating to ‘A’ (Excellent) from ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating to “a” from “a-“of Chicago-based Continental...
Aug 13 2014 // Kaj SamsomVermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) Commissioner Susan L. Donegan announced Tuesday the appointment of Kaj Samsom as deputy commissioner of the Insurance Division, effective immediately. In his new...
Aug 12 2014 // A Vermont couple who reached a $450,000 settlement with the state after saying their home was made uninhabitable when it was sprayed for bed bugs with a banned pesticide is now suing their insurance company. Neil and...
Aug 4 2014 // The state of Vermont is asking officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help them determine if repairs to damage from flash flooding in the Chester area would be eligible for disaster assistance.If the...
Jul 31 2014 // The fire chief in Chester, Vermont, said more than 3 inches of rain fell on his community creating the worst flooding since Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont almost three years ago.Chief Matthew Wilson said the Monday...