Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Deadly Massachusetts Fire Highlights Assisted-Living Regulation, Staffing
Jul 17 2025 // The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing...
Massachusetts Assisted Living Home Had Been Cited for Late Safety Reports
Jul 16 2025 // A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more than two dozen health and safety incidents, according to regulators’ most recent review of...
Post-Mortem Begins of Assisted-Living Fire That Killed 9 in Massachusetts
Jul 15 2025 // Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people and trapping residents inside, including some who leaned out of windows and screamed for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30...
Fire at Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility Takes 9 Lives, Injures 30
Jul 14 2025 // Nine people have died in a fire at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, where people were hanging out of windows screaming for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30 people were injured. Firefighters responded...
Massachusetts High Court Orders Workers’ Comp Trust Fund Payments
Jul 3 2025 // In two separate rulings, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has found that an insurer in runoff and the state’s insolvency fund were both wrongly denied certain payments they are entitled from the state’s...
Massachusetts Denies 7.1% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike After 2024 ‘Excessive’ Cut
Jun 16 2025 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Michael Caljouw has rejected an industry proposal to raise workers’ compensation rates by 7.1%. As a result, existing rates, which reflect a 14.6% decrease ordered last July, will...
Massachusetts Cuts Red Tape on Insurers, Plus Banks, Contractors, Barbers and More
Jun 3 2025 // Massachusetts is eliminating a series of insurance and other business regulations with a goal of making it easier and less costly to conduct business in the state. According to Gov. Maura Healey, her administration’s...
Massachusetts Firm to Pay $11M for Dumping Contaminated Fill in Rhode Island
May 27 2025 // Rhode Island’s top legal chief announced last week that a Massachusetts construction company has agreed to pay $11 million to settle criminal charges that it illegally dumped thousands of tons of contaminated fill in...
Massachusetts Hacker to Plead Guilty to PowerSchool Data Breach
May 23 2025 // A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing data pertaining to millions of students and teachers that hackers used to extort the company and...
Massachusetts Denies 7.1% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike After 2024 ‘Excessive’ Cut
May 20 2025 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Michael Caljouw has rejected an industry proposal to raise workers’ compensation rates by 7.1%. As a result, existing rates, which reflect a 14.6% decrease ordered last July, will...
People Moves: Castillo to Head Protecdiv’s Construction; Snyder Joins Mass. Workers’ Comp Council
May 19 2025 // David Castillo Protecdiv, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hired David Castillo as executive vice president and national construction practice leader. In this newly created role, Castillo leads the strategic...
People Moves: Medical Liability Insurer EmPRO Expands to Massachusetts, Names 3
May 14 2025 // Medical malpractice insurer EmPRO Insurance Co. has opened its first office in Massachusetts. The new Boston office marks EmPRO’s further expansion into the New England market, following prior entries into New...
Report Describes Final Moments of Plane Crash That Killed Massachusetts Family
May 12 2025 // Federal investigators are outlining the final moments of a plane crash last month in upstate New York that killed a family from Massachusetts heading to the Catskills to celebrate a birthday and the Passover holiday. The...
Paragon’s Reel Media Acquires WISE Risk of Massachusetts
May 8 2025 // Connecticut-based Paragon Insurance Holdings announced that its specialty media and contingency platform, Reel Media Insurance Services, has acquired WISE Risk, a wholesaler for event-driven and specialty insurance...
Hub Acquires Allegiant Global Partners of Massachusetts
May 6 2025 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited reported it has acquired the assets of Allegiant Global Partners, Inc. (AGP) of Boston. AGP is a health, welfare and risk consulting firm serving global employers. AGP...
Massachusetts High Court Upholds Workers’ Comp for Utility Worker’s COVID
Apr 16 2025 // An insurer erred in denying workers’ compensation benefits to a utility worker who contracted COVID-19 while on the job, a job the state had deemed as “essential” during the pandemic. The insurer had...
Earlier Medical Event Does Not Shield Later Negligent Acts: Massachusetts High Court
Apr 1 2025 // The Massachusetts seven-year statute of repose for medical malpractice claims does not shield professionals against separate acts of negligent treatment that allegedly occurred in the years after a disputed medical event...
Massachusetts Probes Robinhood Again, This Time Over March Madness Betting
Mar 27 2025 // REUTERS EXCLUSIVE Massachusetts’ top securities regulator has begun an investigation into trading platform Robinhood’s decision to launch a prediction-markets hub that allows users to bet on the outcomes of a...
Alera Group Acquires Kaplansky Insurance Agency in Massachusetts
Feb 11 2025 // Needham, Massachusetts-based Kaplansky Insurance Agency has been acquired by the national financial services firm Alera Group. This new partnership brings more than 100 agents to add to Alera Group’s...
Diminished Value Not Covered by Standard Auto Policy, Massachusetts High Court Says
Jan 31 2025 // The Massachusetts standard auto policy does not require an insurer to pay inherent diminished value (IDV) to a claimant whose vehicle is damaged by one of its insureds. The Massachusetts Supreme Court in a 6-0 ruling has...
