All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2009 // Police in Barre, Vermont are trying to solve a string of 22 arson fires that go back to October, including three on Thursday.Police released a surveillance video of what appears to be a suspect setting a fire in a trash...
Feb 22 2009 // Vermont lawmakers will consider a bill that would extend workers’ compensation to cover mental and emotional problems suffered on the job. But the proposal is getting a cool reception from the insurance...
Feb 12 2009 // A jury says Volkswagen isn’t to blame for the injuries suffered by a Vermont man in a 2002 wreck that paralyzed him. The suit stemmed from a Christmas Eve accident in Hanover, New Hampshire, in which a 1999 Jetta...
Feb 11 2009 // Vermont lawmakers will consider a bill that would extend workers’ compensation to cover mental and emotional problems suffered on the job. But the proposal is getting a cool reception from the insurance...
Jan 20 2009 // A Vermont man paralyzed in a 2002 accident is suing Volkswagen AG, saying the Jetta he was riding in wasn’t “crash worthy.”Twenty-nine-year-old Owen Milne’s product liability suit goes to trial...
Jan 13 2009 // The state of Vermont is planning to begin issuing enhanced driver’s licenses on Feb. 17.The new licenses will allow holders to cross the United States-Canada border without a passport or other supporting documents....
Jan 6 2009 // A settlement has been reached in a fatal crash in Westmore that killed two teenagers five years ago and pitted the parents of the driver and the teens against each other.The settlement amount was not disclosed in federal...
Dec 31 2008 // Cooling temperatures and falling Winooski River water levels have all but eliminated the threat of flooding in Montpelier, Vermon — for now.The river’s depth, which had risen because of an ice jam, dropped by 8...
Dec 19 2008 // A Vermont jury has awarded a former altar boy nearly $3.6 million because the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington didn’t protect him from an abusive priest in the 1970s.The Chittenden County Superior Court jury...
Dec 8 2008 // Officials say Vermont businesses should be paying less for workers’ compensation insurance.The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending a 13 percent drop in rates in Vermont. If state regulators...
Nov 26 2008 // Vermont is getting ready to issue its first enhanced driver’s licenses, which will allow holders to cross the United States-Canada border without a passport or other supporting documents. State Motor Vehicle...
Nov 13 2008 // A passenger involved in a car accident that triggered a huge building fire in Vermont says the driver had been drinking and driving fast before the crash.Gabrielle Perez told police her boyfriend, Robert Dragon III, 18,...
Nov 10 2008 // The state of Vermont is warning people to stay away from an abandoned asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell because of the health threat posed by asbestos.Scientists studied health records and death certificates from towns...
Nov 2 2008 // $205 MillionThe amount the state of Vermont has finally received in a lawsuit against accounts for an insurance company that went bankrupt a quarter century ago and left about 20,000 people in several states with...
Oct 30 2008 // When Diana Levine turned 63 recently, her daughter made her birthday card, drawing on Greek mythology with an illustration of Diana the Huntress, her bow string drawn taut, an arrow ready to fly.But the arm pulling at the...
Oct 27 2008 // The state of Vermont has received $205 million in a lawsuit against accounts for an insurance company that went bankrupt a quarter century ago and left about 20,000 people in several states with outstanding claims.The...
Oct 1 2008 // A Suffolk County grand jury returned indictments against a Boston man in connection with allegedly attempting to defraud insurance companies by reinsuring expensive jewelry that had allegedly been stolen, and for allegedly...
Sep 22 2008 // The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a judgment of $182.9 million in a malpractice case against the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers for its dealings with the failed Ambassador Insurance Co.Ambassador...
Sep 11 2008 // The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued has upheld a judgment of $182.9 million in a malpractice case against the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers for its dealings with the failed Ambassador Insurance...
Aug 4 2008 // Tokio Marine, Philadelphia InsuranceJapan’s Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. has agreed to acquire Philadelphia Consolidated, a U.S. property/casualty insurance company offering specialty commercial property and casualty...