Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Jury Awards $26.5 Million In Birth of Disabled Child
Oct 15 2007 // A Suffolk Superior Court jury in Boston has awarded $26.5 million to a 10-year-old boy and his parents after the family argued in a lawsuit that he was severely injured during a delayed delivery at Brigham and...
Mass. Agents Launch Site on Mandatory Health Insurance Law
Oct 15 2007 // In an effort to clarify business and individual responsibilities under the Massachusetts Health Reform Act, the Massachusetts Association of Health Underwriters (MassAHU) has launched the Web site at...
Mass. AG Calls for 18% Cut in Home Insurance Rates Charged by FAIR Plan
Oct 12 2007 // Homeowners insurance rates for many in Massachusetts insured through the state’s secondary market insurer, the FAIR Plan, would drop 18 percent if Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley gets her...
Mass. Bans Credit Scores in Both Rating, Underwriting in New Auto Plan
Oct 9 2007 // Auto insurers in Massachusetts will not be able to use credit scores to price or underwrite risks when the state enters its managed competition market next April. Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes sided with consumer...
Mass. warned on coastal development and insurance
Oct 8 2007 // A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s residual homeowners’ insurance market, the...
Mass. consumer groups say auto deregulation plan needs work
Oct 8 2007 // A Massachusetts consumer group and Attorney General Martha Coakley urged Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes to incorporate more consumer protections and ban the use of credit scores in her proposed auto insurance...
News Currents
Oct 8 2007 // Mass. warned on coastal development and insurance A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s...
Mass. Weighs Getting Tougher with Road Rage, High-Speed Drivers
Sep 27 2007 // Road rage incidents are driving some lawmakers to get tougher on angry and reckless motorists. The Legislature’s transportation committee will consider a bill designed to crack down on a range of bad behavior on the...
Hanover Offering Discounts in Mass. for Advanced Driver Training Course
Sep 27 2007 // As Massachusetts prepares to move to a more competitve auto insurance system, The Hanover Insurance Group announced it will offer discounts on an advanced driver training course for its policyholders and their family...
Editor’s Note: Promises to keep
Sep 24 2007 // p:Deregulation is breaking out all over, with Democrats spearheading the changes and making the promises of a better insurance future. Most recent is the Spitzer administration’s move to deregulate workers’...
People
Sep 24 2007 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices has named its officers and directors for the 2007-2008 term. The new NAPSLO president is Mary Ellen Rozzell, who is with Continental/Marmorstein & Malone...
Burnes: four insurers eyeing deregulated Mass. auto market
Sep 24 2007 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes says four insurers not now writing auto insurance in the state have said they might enter if her plan to allow competitive pricing goes forward. Burnes is not naming the...
Promises to keep
Sep 24 2007 // Deregulation is breaking out all over, with Democrats spearheading the changes and making the promises of a better insurance future. Most recent is the Spitzer administration’s move to deregulate workers’...
From Consumer Viewpoint, New Mass. Auto Rules Need Work
Sep 21 2007 // A Massachusetts consumer group and Attorney General Martha Coakley urged Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes to incorporate more consumer protections and ban the use of credit scores in her proposed auto insurance...
Mass. Warned About Coastal Development and Insurance
Sep 20 2007 // A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s residual homeowners’ insurance market, the...
Man Found Guilty of Manslaugher Under New Mass. Drunk Driving Statute
Sep 19 2007 // A Charlestown, Mass. man has been found guilty of manslaughter by motor vehicle and other charges in the death of a 16-year-old girl last year. Twenty-nine-year-old Robert Getz was sentenced to five years in prison on the...
Mass. Widow Awarded Workers Comp Death Benefits in Suicide Case
Sep 17 2007 // The widow of a 50-year-old mechanic who killed himself after being terminated from his job is entitled to receive death benefits under workers compensation, a Massachusetts Appeals Court in Suffolk County has ruled. The...
Commerce Insurance, Commerce Banc end spat, seek to partner
Sep 3 2007 // The Commerce Group Inc., the property/casualty insurer based in Webster, Mass., and Commerce Banc Insurance Services of Cherry Hill, N.J., have decided to explore partnership opportunities in various states and to resolve...
4 Insurers Said to Be Eyeing Mass. Auto Market After Deregulation
Aug 30 2007 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes says four insurers not now writing auto insurance in the state have said they will enter if her plan to allow competitive pricing goes forward. Burnes is not naming the...
Proposed Mass. Auto Rules Would Ban Use of Socioeconomic Factors
Aug 29 2007 // Auto insurers in Massachusetts would not be allowed to use socioeconomic factors in competitively pricing or underwriting policies under a regulation proposed by Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes. The draft regulation...
