All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 19 2010 // A former Vermont man who claimed he bit into a Burger King sandwich and found an unwrapped condom has dropped his lawsuit, with the restaurant agreeing to drop its counterclaim.The man and the store’s owners agreed...
Sep 1 2010 // Foremost Insurance Group is expanding its Dwelling Fire program in Vermont effective September 1, 2010 and is introducing new Dwelling Fire policies and endorsements specifically designed for landlord, owner-occupied or...
Aug 11 2010 // The state of Vermont can’t collect from a succession of owners of a property in downtown Barre that was polluted by a former dry cleaning shop, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.The justices on Friday upheld a...
Aug 2 2010 // New England Wind“The barn was completely flattened.” —Kati King, of Gorham, Maine, where 54 mph winds destroyed her 150-year-old, 40,000-square-feet cow barn. Similar scenes were recorded throughout New...
Jul 27 2010 // The Hanover has appointed Michael H. Lee as branch vice president for Commercial Lines for the company’s New Hampshire and Vermont markets.In this new role, Lee will lead the company’s efforts to strengthen its...
Jul 22 2010 // Seventeen new captive insurers formed in Vermont through the first half of the year, a rate that puts the state on pace to have one of the best years in its history in terms of new captives.Last year the state saw licensed...
Jul 14 2010 // A jury has awarded $380,557 to a Vermont turkey hunter hit by 52 shotgun pellets fired by another hunter.The Windsor County Superior Court jury returned the award last week against Ralph Townsend of Hartland for the May...
Jun 11 2010 // A regulator who’s been a fixture in Vermont’s captive insurance industry for two decades is calling it quits. Peter Raymond, director of captive insurance for the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance,...
Jun 4 2010 // Vermont State Police fire investigators are seeking the cause of an explosion that destroyed a house in the town of Norwich.Police say that when firefighters arrived at the New Boston Road home at about 6 p.m. Monday they...
Jun 2 2010 // It’s now illegal to text while driving in Vermont.Gov. Jim Douglas signed the ban into law Tuesday at the Montpelier High School, joining at least 25 states that have banned the practice. The measure also bans the...
May 20 2010 // Deputy Commissioner Mike Bertrand will be appointed insurance commissioner in Vermont, after Paulette Thabault resigned from that position earlier this week.Gov. Jim Douglas said Thabault will take a position with CVS...
May 10 2010 // Vermont lawmakers appear poised to pass a bill cracking down on misclassification of workers by employers looking to avoid paying workers’ compensation premiums and unemployment insurance tax. Backers of the measure...
May 6 2010 // Vermont lawmakers want to put an S-T-O-P to drivers who text. Under a deal reached Tuesday between lawmakers, texting by drivers of any age will be banned, starting this summer. And the bill that says so goes a step...
May 5 2010 // School officials in Vermont say winter flooding at a Bennington elementary school caused $200,000 in damage.Officials say the Jan. 17 water main break at the Molly Stark Elementary School affected 17 rooms and closed the...
Apr 23 2010 // Vermont’s Department of Labor says companies enrolled in a state voluntary worker safety program have fewer reports of job-site injuries and illnesses than the national average. The Burlington Free Press reports two...
Apr 14 2010 // People who live in northern New England have some of the lowest car insurance rates in the country.A survey by Insure.com says the lowest rates are found in Maine, followed by Vermont. New Hampshire and Massachusetts also...
Mar 3 2010 // Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas says the state’s business owners are going to be paying less for workers’ compensation insurance.The new rates that will take effect April 1 will mark the fourth consecutive year in...
Feb 2 2010 // Twice burned, the Putney General Store in Vermont is rising from the ashes. On Monday night, the Putney Historical Society hosted a community gathering to update the status of a rebuilding project being planned for the...
Jan 20 2010 // The Vermont Supreme Court says a landowner can sue the president of the Vermont Asbestos Group over contamination on property next to a former asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell. The Supreme Court has overruled a lower...
Jan 19 2010 // Molly Lambert, former president of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association, has been appointed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as rural development director for New Hampshire and Vermont. She was nominated for the...