All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2007 // A Windsor County, Vermont man who was permanently injured in a car accident two years ago has been awarded $21 million, one of the largest lawsuit awards in the state’s history.It’s unclear yet how much of the...
Aug 31 2007 // Vermont’s Public Service commissioner said the collapse of a cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant appears to have been an isolated problem and that the plant could be back to full power in a matter of...
Aug 28 2007 // Luanne V. McCarthy has been promoted to commercial lines underwriting supervisor in the state of New York for Vermont Mutual. McCarthy has been employed with Vermont Mutual Insurance Group in Montpelier, Vt. since July...
Aug 9 2007 // A Navy doctor who was awarded $41 million in a civil lawsuit against a pedophile priest has filed a second lawsuit against Roman Catholic officials.Attorneys for Cmdr. Kenneth Whitwell, 39, of Quantico, Va., filed the...
Jul 23 2007 // An insurance company that paid workers’ compensation to a Thetford, Vermont, bank employee traumatized in a hostage-taking incident is seeking to recover the money from the family of the teenager charged in the...
Jul 16 2007 // An insurance company that paid workers’ compensation to a bank employee traumatized in a Thetford, Vermont hostage-taking incident is seeking to recover the money from the family of the teenager charged in the...
Jul 13 2007 // Torrential rains pelted central Vermont on Wednesday, triggering flash flooding that washed out roads and inundated the city of Barre, where water ran up to 6 feet deep for a time.Between 3 and 4 inches fell in the area...
Jul 10 2007 // A lawsuit over a 2004 car accident is posing a legal dilemma for Vermont courts, which are being asked to decide whether punitive damages can be sought in wrongful death cases.The Vermont Supreme Court has never ruled one...
Jul 9 2007 // A Fair Haven, Vermont slate company is appealing a $45,000 penalty issued by the state over safety violations that regulators say still weren’t addressed five months after being cited.Shawn Camara, owner of Camara...
Jun 28 2007 // A mistrial was declared this week in the case of a Virginia man who accused the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont of negligence for the alleged actions of one of its priests.Chittenden County Superior Court...
Jun 21 2007 // A Burlington, Vermont roofing company is facing $18,000 in fines for a series of alleged safety violations after an employee fell to his death last December.A-One Roofing has been cited by the Vermont Occupational Safety...
May 3 2007 // The Vermont House advanced a bill this week that toughens the state’s seat belt law and bans chatty motorists from using anything but a “handsfree” cell phone while driving.The bill given preliminary...
Apr 30 2007 // Vermont Mutual Insurance group has announced the promotion of Mary J. Gray to the position of assistant vice president of underwriting. Gray joined the Vermont Mutual in 1984 and has served in several key positions in...
Apr 23 2007 // For more than 30 years, Leonard Crouse has been credited as a key figure in advancing the captive insurance industry.Now Crouse, the deputy commissioner for captive insurance for Vermont, has been honored for his efforts...
Apr 19 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurance is costing less for most Vermont employers since new rates became effective April 1.The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration approved...
Apr 19 2007 // A federal jury in Burlington, Vemont ordered chemical giant DuPont to pay a Colchester company $2.3 million to settle a dispute about a coating made to line steel ducts used in the semiconductor industry.Fab-Tech Inc., of...
Apr 13 2007 // Vermont’s Catholic Diocese has met most of the standards set by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to prevent sexual abuse by priests, but came up short in training volunteers, an audit has found.Vermont and the...
Apr 10 2007 // For over 30 years Leonard Crouse has been credited as a key figure in advancing the captive insurance industry.Crouse, the deputy commissioner for captive insurance for the State of Vermont, has been honored for his...
Mar 13 2007 // Gov. Jim Douglas authorized the mobilization of a National Guard task force to assist the City of Montpelier, Vt. with preparations for a potential flood.It is estimated that the soldiers, working with the specially...
Mar 12 2007 // Farmers who suffered damages during Vermont’s Valentines Day blizzard are eligible for emergency federal loans.The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Services Agency has designated eight counties in which...