Latest Maine Headlines
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Maine Governor Signs Bill Delaying Parts of Legal Pot Law
Jan 31 2017 // Maine Governor Paul LePage has signed a bill to delay portions of Maine’s legal marijuana law. LePage signed the bill on Friday night. It still became legal to possess and grow marijuana in the state on Monday. But...
MEMIC Group Hires Coy as Senior Director of Information Technology
Jan 12 2017 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, has announced the appointment of Matthew Coy to the position of senior director of information technology. In this role, he is...
People – East
Jan 9 2017 // Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, has appointed Jeffrey Updyke as regional manager for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the company’s commercial...
Maine Had Fewer Homicides, Fire and Highway Deaths in 2016
Jan 5 2017 // The Maine Department of Public Safety says 2016 was relatively safe when it came to homicides, fire fatalities and highways deaths in the state. Spokesman Steve McCausland says the state ended the year with 16 homicides,...
Maine Town to Consider Pot Moratorium After Vote to Legalize
Dec 30 2016 // Officials in Richmond held a public hearing this week on a proposed temporary ban on marijuana retailers and social clubs in the Maine town. The Kennebec Journal reports the Planning Board’s hearing was set for 7...
Maine’s BroGue Insurance Under New Ownership
Dec 20 2016 // The current owners of several insurance agencies, Patrick Maguire and Paul Tracy, acquired ownership of BroGue Insurance & Financial Services in Bangor, Maine, on November 1, 2016. Established in Bangor in 1983, BroGue...
Former Gunpowder Plant Owner to Surrender $65K in Maine Case
Dec 16 2016 // A former gunpowder plant owner imprisoned over a deadly 2010 explosion in New Hampshire has agreed to surrender some money to the federal government in a separate wire fraud case in Maine. Craig Sanborn, of Maidstone,...
Maine-Based MEMIC’s Founding President and CEO to Retire in 2017
Dec 15 2016 // The MEMIC Group, the Portland, Maine, headquartered workers’ compensation insurer, has announced the retirement of its founding President and CEO, John T. Leonard, effective September of 2017. Leonard serves as the...
Maine-Based Cross Insurance Acquires Colt Insurance of Massachusetts
Dec 15 2016 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine, based subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp. and one of the largest independent insurance providers in New England, has further expanded its presence in western Massachusetts, New York and...
State Marijuana Laws Are Changing But Employer Attitudes, Federal Law Aren’t
Dec 14 2016 // Changing marijuana laws aren’t necessarily making weed more welcome in the workplace. For now, many employers appear to be sticking with their drug testing and personal conduct policies, even in states where...
Maine-Based MEMIC Group Promotes Sabatino
Dec 13 2016 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, has promoted Deb Sabatino to the position of director of human resources. In this role, she is responsible for planning and managing...
Maine-Based MEMIC Promotes Abboud and Fongemie
Dec 8 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine, headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has promoted Chris Abboud to senior underwriter and has also promoted Eileen Moran Fongemie to vice president of finance and...
People – East
Dec 5 2016 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Penn., based independent broker, has hired Braden Brodsky as a senior financial analyst in the employee benefits department. In this role, Brodsky will use his three years of industry...
Opponents of Maine Marijuana Vote Take Out Recount Papers
Nov 14 2016 // Opponents of a vote to legalize marijuana in Maine have taken the first step toward a potential recount request. Voters in the state chose to legalize recreational marijuana via a referendum vote this week. The referendum...
The MEMIC Group Names Morehouse a Safety Management Consultant in New York
Nov 2 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer headquartered in Portland, Maine, has appointed Randy Morehouse as a safety management consultant in New York. Morehouse will join safety management consultants...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Hires Levesque
Oct 17 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine, headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Adam Levesque as safety management consultant to provide safety training services and advice to MEMIC’s customer...
Maine Town Votes to Change Dangerous Dogs Law, 2nd Vote Planned
Oct 13 2016 // Winslow, Maine, officials have voted at the first of two scheduled hearings to change the town’s rules on dangerous dogs after a woman was hurt and her dog was killed over the summer during an attack by two other...
Maine Building Where 6 Died Was Unsafe, Prosecutor Says
Oct 10 2016 // A building where six people died in one of the deadliest fires in Maine in decades was unsafely operated as an illegal rooming house, a prosecutor said in a closing statement in the trial of the building’s...
Trial Underway for Owner of Maine Building Where 6 Died in Fire
Oct 5 2016 // An apartment house where six people died in a fire had been neglected during foreclosure and lacked alternative exits, allowing several bedrooms to become “death traps” when the blaze spread upstairs, a...
Hub International Acquires the Assets of Maine’s Norton Insurance
Oct 3 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., has acquired the assets of Norton Insurance Agency and Norton Financial Services Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not...
