All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 28 2014 // A Vermont Transportation Agency foreman is facing charges he lied to police and his insurance company after reporting damage to his personal truck was a hit-and-run accident, when it was hit by a new employee.Roger Daigle,...
Jun 25 2014 // The family of a Vermont woman killed in a hit-and-run crash last year has reached a settlement with the driver.Merrill Outslay of Mendon, Vt., the husband of 71-year-old Jane Outslay, sued Christopher Sullivan in Rutland...
Jun 17 2014 // The Vermont Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security is holding mandatory briefings for communities seeking federal disaster relief from flooding in mid-April.The eligible counties are Caledonia, Essex,...
Jun 11 2014 // Two regional development groups in Vermont have been awarded $1.5 million in grants to help businesses recovering from Tropical Storm Irene.Brattleboro Development Credit Corp. and Springfield Regional Development Corp....
Jun 9 2014 // Vermont Commercial Vehicle Enforcement officers and police issued almost $18,000 in fines after a three-day, around-the-clock inspection of commercial vehicles in Colchester on Interstate 89 and on U.S. Route 7.The...
Jun 6 2014 // BP Plc, Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. are among two dozen U.S. refiners sued by Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell and accused of polluting the state’s groundwater with a gasoline additive.Sorrell filed...
May 30 2014 // Geoffrey J. SmithUnion Mutual of Vermont Companies has hired Geoffrey J. Smith as the director of commercial lines underwriting. He is based in Montpelier, Vermont. Smith has over 27 years of experience underwriting and...
May 22 2014 // Sometimes a voice call to 911 just won’t work, such as for deaf people in need of help or in certain domestic violence cases.Now, in a big step toward moving the nation’s emergency dispatch system out of...
May 19 2014 // Mary DesranleauKane USA, a subsidiary of Kane Holdings Inc. in Guernsey, has appointed Mary Desranleau as client services director. Based in the firm’s Burlington, Vt., office, Desranleau will report to Ann West,...
May 8 2014 // Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin helped construction crews pour one of the first concrete footings Tuesday in what will become the new state office complex, replacing a series of buildings that became unusable after flooding...
May 6 2014 // Vermont Mutual Insurance Group in Montpelier, Vt., has appointed Mark J. McDonnell as senior vice president.Mark J. McDonnellMost recently, McDonnell was vice president of personal lines sales for Tower Group Companies,...
May 5 2014 // Vermont’s updated captive insurance law now offers inactive captives in the state a chance to apply for a “dormant” status.Vermont regulators said this latest modification reflects the state’s...
Apr 25 2014 // A woman who said she was sexually abused over several years in the 1990s was awarded $35 million by a civil jury, though her attorney acknowledged it was unlikely the defendant would ever be able to pay all of it.The jury...
Apr 23 2014 // Vermont’s updated captive insurance law now offers inactive captives in the state a chance to apply for a “dormant” status. Vermont regulators said this latest modification reflects the state’s...
Apr 17 2014 // Vermont’s Gov. Peter Shumlin signed new legislation updating Vermont’s captive law, amending the reciprocal insurer section and creating a new “dormant” status for captives.Officials said the new...
Mar 28 2014 // Much of downtown Montpelier, Vermont, is perched along the banks of the North Branch of the Winooski River, a waterway that has poured into buildings, forcing many homeowners to purchase flood insurance.Now 242 Montpelier...
Mar 11 2014 // Union Mutual of Vermont Companies announced the election of Mary Marchut as a member of its Board of Directors at the annual meeting of members on Feb. 26.Mary MarchutMarchut retired from General Reinsurance in 2013, where...
Feb 25 2014 // A.M. Best announced that it has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings of “a” of Balboa Insurance...
Feb 24 2014 // A series of February snowstorms have piled up the snow in the mountains of Vermont heading into the last month of winter and emergency planners and weather forecasters are starting to prepare for the possibility of...
Feb 24 2014 // A new law in Vermont would soon authorize the state to license and regulate specialized Vermont-based companies whose only purpose would be to buy and manage closed blocks of non-admitted commercial insurance policies and...