Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former Maine Fire Chief Admits Starting Blaze That Burned 42 Acres
Oct 30 2017 // A former Maine fire chief has pleaded guilty to setting a wildfire that burned 42 acres in 2016. The Journal Tribune reports that 61-year-old Ricky Plummer pleaded guilty Wednesday to starting the fire when he was chief,...
Maine’s MMG Insurance Hires Tawfall as Vice President of Personal Lines
Oct 25 2017 // MMG Insurance, a Presque Isle, Maine-headquartered regional property and casualty insurance company, has hired Eric Tawfall as its new vice president of personal lines. Tawfall will be relocating from Illinois to Northern...
Company to Require Helmets for Ski Resort Employees after Maine Worker Death
Oct 24 2017 // A company that operates nine ski resorts in the U.S. and Canada will require workers to wear safety helmets when working on the mountains. The new policy follows the death in March of Alexander Witt, who wasn’t...
Massive Fire Ravages Neighborhood in Maine, Destroys Six Buildings
Oct 23 2017 // A large fire has ravaged a neighborhood in Maine, with officials saying it destroyed six buildings and sent at least four people to the hospital. Witnesses told the state Fire Marshal’s Office they smelled smoke long...
Maine Man Suing Over Workplace Accident That Claimed Two Fingers
Oct 19 2017 // A Machiasport, Maine, man is suing a salmon farm over a workplace injury in which he lost two fingers. Jesse Redman sued True North Salmon US Inc. and Cooke Aquaculture USA Inc. last week in U.S. District Court in Bangor,...
Hub International Acquires Assets of Maine’s Graffam Insurance Group
Oct 18 2017 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Graffam Insurance Group LLC (Graffam). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Cumberland Center, Maine, Graffam...
People – East
Oct 16 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) announced that Lisa K. Lounsbury has been appointed as the organization’s permanent president and chief executive officer. She has been acting on an...
Maine Employers Receive $21M Workers’ Compensation Refund
Oct 9 2017 // Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company has returned $21 million to Maine employers insured by the workers’ compensation provider. About 18,000 employers in the state will see insurance returns from the...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Appoints Payne as Senior Vice President of External Affairs
Sep 26 2017 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group, based in Portland, Maine, has appointed Anthony Payne as senior vice president of external affairs. In this role, Payne will oversee corporate communications and...
Maine Supreme Court Weighs Issue of Medical Marijuana and Workers’ Comp
Sep 18 2017 // The Maine supreme court on Wednesday began considering whether a paper millworker left suicidal by narcotic painkillers should receive workers’ compensation for medical marijuana. It’s the first time the court...
New York’s Brady Risk Management Opens New England Office
Sep 11 2017 // Brady Risk Management Inc., a Huntington, N.Y.-based financial risk management firm, has announced the opening of Brady Risk New England Property/Casualty Managing General Insurance Agency based in Portland, Maine. The new...
Nestle’s ‘Natural’ Claims on Poland Springs Don’t Hold Water, Lawsuit Alleges
Aug 25 2017 // Nestle SA’s Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary ground water that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated areas, rather than from natural...
People – East
Aug 21 2017 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., headquartered in East Providence, R.I., has promoted Sean Cottrell and Elizabeth Lowe to senior vice presidents. Cottrell is the practice leader for the Human Service...
Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over Deadly Halloween Hayride in Maine
Aug 11 2017 // The family of a teenager who died in a hayride crash has settled a lawsuit against the farm owner who operated the Halloween attraction in 2014, the family lawyer said Wednesday. Money from the settlement in the wrongful...
Maine’s MMG Insurance Company Hires Hochradel as VP of Commercial Lines
Aug 1 2017 // MMG Insurance Company, a Presque Isle, Maine-headquartered regional property and casualty insurance company, has hired Derek Hochradel as vice president of commercial lines, effective July 31, 2017. “Growth of...
Maine Legislative Panel Mulls Raising 10 Percent Tax on Marijuana
Jul 25 2017 // As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit...
Maine’s MEMIC Group Promotes Barden
Jul 18 2017 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has promoted Kelly Barden to the position of director of corporate communications. In this role, she is responsible for shaping and...
Maine’s Clark Insurance Hires McCarty as Director of Loss Control
Jun 30 2017 // Clark Insurance, a Portland, Maine-headquartered, 100-percent employee owned agency, has hired Tim McCarty as the director of loss control services. McCarty has decades of national experience in the safety field. In his...
Man Admits He Embezzled $700K from Maine Boatyard
Jun 23 2017 // A Massachusetts man who worked as a financial manager for a Maine boatyard has admitted to embezzling over $700,000 from the company. The Portland Press Herald reports 50-year-old Steven Nygren, of Salem, Mass., pleaded...
Maine-Based Clark Insurance Elects Cote to Board of Directors
Jun 22 2017 // Bret Cote has been elected to the board of directors of Portland, Maine-based Clark Insurance, according to agency president G. Jeffrey Shaw. Cote joined the agency in 2007 and helped establish an office in Manchester,...
