All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 7 2006 // Vermont Governor Jim Douglas was at the Barre Rifle and Pistol Club recently to sign legislation protecting Vermont’s shooting ranges from so-called frivolous lawsuits and nuisance claims.Douglas said the strong...
Jun 5 2006 // John N. Evans, Ph.D., has been elected as a director for Vermont Mutual Insurance Company, Northern Security Insurance Company, Inc. and Granite Mutual Insurance Company. Evans is the dean of the University Of Vermont...
May 18 2006 // Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese in Burlington has been searching for insurance documents dating back three decades, in hopes of showing it should recover the $965,000 it recently paid to settle a complaint about...
May 17 2006 // Vermont Gov. James Douglas has vetoed a bill that would have made seed manufacturers liable for damages caused by genetically engineered seeds that drift into the fields of farms that do not want to use them.Douglas said...
May 16 2006 // In the competition for jobs and capital investment among the states, those states that suffer from high tort costs will continue to lose jobs and businesses to states with superior tort systems, according to a new report...
May 11 2006 // As many as 25,000 people in Vermont who have no health insurance will be able to get it under a compromise health care reform package reached among Gov. Jim Douglas and legislative leaders.The bill envisions extending...
May 11 2006 // In what supporters hope amounts to a preemptive strike on insurance schemes, Vermont’s legislature on its last day of the 2006 legislative session passed a bill making insurance fraud a specific crime.Gov. Jim...
May 7 2006 // Gov. Jim Douglas declared Friday that the health reform compromise signed by legislative Democrats on Friday was unacceptable and would not become law.“I will not,” Douglas said when asked directly whether he...
Apr 21 2006 // A lawsuit filed by a former altar boy who claimed he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s has been settled for $965,000 as the case was due to go to trial.Michael Gay, 38, of South Burlington had claimed...
Feb 28 2006 // Vermont workers’ compensation rates are moderating for the third year in a row, Commissioner John P. Crowley of the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration announced. Crowley...
Feb 6 2006 // While the Massachusetts insurance regulator is warning about problems in the homeowners market, another insurer has decided it can’t continue to write homeowners insurance on Cape Cod. Starting April 1, Vermont...
Feb 5 2006 // While the Massachusetts insurance regulator is warning about problems in the homeowners market, another insurer has decided it can’t continue to write homeowners insurance on Cape Cod. Starting April 1, Vermont...
Jan 26 2006 // Another insurer has decided it can’t continue to write homeowners insurance policies on Cape Cod.Starting April 1, Vermont Mutual will stop renewing about 4,700 homeowners and 400 dwelling policies, Tom Tierney,...
Dec 28 2005 // Vermont Gov. James Douglas and the Vermont Department of Labor annually recognize employers that have made outstanding achievements in workplace safety and health.The first annual Governor’s Workplace Safety Award...
Dec 27 2005 // Gov. James Douglas has rolled out the 2006 model of his health care plan: Gone is the tax on insurance premiums that hampered sales of the 2005 model. And the new model is streamlined, focusing much of its attention on the...
Dec 19 2005 // The Vermont Medical Society and a group of consumer advocates squared off last week with dueling news conferences that were a harbinger of a coming debate in the Legislature over medical malpractice reform.“The cost...
Nov 18 2005 // Patients in Rhode Island, Vermont and Minnesota are the most satisfied with their doctors, and patients in Wyoming and Arizona have doctors with the highest rate of disciplinary actions in the country.Vermont, North...
Oct 13 2005 // A New York Appeals Court has ruled that the same sex partner of a man who died after surgery related to injuries suffered in a car accident does not have standing to sue the hospital for malpractice under state law.The 3-2...
Oct 2 2005 // Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC is fully responsible for paying a $182.9 million judgment stemming from a jury’s finding that a predecessor company was negligent in auditing Ambassador Insurance Co.,...
Sep 14 2005 // Vermont financial providers that have been displaced due to Hurricane Katrina, or have customers who have been displaced, will find it easier to conduct business with one another thanks to a regulatory order from the...