Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Activist Drives Mass. to Check High Accident Rate in Big Dig Tunnel
Jul 31 2007 // Vincent Zarrilli knows a thing or two about lost causes. His proposal to convert an aircraft carrier to a prison went nowhere. And his calls for an alternative to the Big Dig went unheeded, as did his desire to create a...
Commerce Group Net Earnings Dip, Loss Ratio Rises in 2Q
Jul 27 2007 // The Commerce Group, Inc. in Webster, Mass. reported 2007 second net earnings were $41.5 million, or $0.63 per diluted share, compared to net earnings of $58.6 million or $0.86 per diluted share for 2006. Included in the...
Central Insurance Returns to Mass. Commercial Auto Market
Jul 27 2007 // Central Insurance is re-entering the Massachusetts commercial auto insurance marketplace after a 17-year absence. Since 1990, Central has been a commercial lines only insurer in Massachusetts, writing primarily commercial...
Drinking buddies not liable as social hosts, Mass. court rules
Jul 23 2007 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that friends who meet regularly after work for drinks cannot be held liable for injuries caused when one of the members of their group drives home intoxicated. The court ruled that...
Smaller Mass. agencies could be hurt by surprise move to competitive rating for auto
Jul 23 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents aren’t happy about the decision to introduce competitive rating into the state’s price-regulated private passenger auto insurance system. They enjoy the best market share in the...
FedEx Says Arab-Americans Alleging Bias Not Protected by Mass. Law
Jul 23 2007 // Four Arab-American men claim in a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts against FedEx Corp. that their supervisors subjected them to religious and ethnic slurs, called them terrorists and gave them less lucrative delivery...
Smaller Mass. agencies could be hurt by surprise move to competitive rating for auto
Jul 23 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents aren’t happy about the decision to introduce competitive rating into the state’s price-regulated private passenger auto insurance system. They enjoy the best market share in the...
Mass. Governor: Auto Plan Balances Market, State Control
Jul 20 2007 // Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick said a new plan to increase competition in the regulated Massachusetts auto insurance market strikes a fine balance between the free market and government control. “It neither affirms the...
Mass. Turnpike Chairman Closes Public Discussion of Big Dig Leaks
Jul 19 2007 // The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, in its first meeting with a board chairman who pledged openness and transparency, closed its public session Tuesday before a promised discussion of leaks in Big Dig tunnels. “I...
Mass. AG Questions if Mass. Auto Market is Ready for Competition
Jul 18 2007 // One day after Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes announced she would implement competitive rating for private pasenger auto insurance next year, the state attorney general urged caution. Attorney General...
Mass. Hearing Today on Sale of American Employers’ Insurance
Jul 17 2007 // Massachusetts insurance regulatory officials have scheduled a public hearing for today, July 17, into the proposed acquisition of American Employers’ Insurance Co. by SPARTA Insurance Holdings, Inc. SPARTA, a...
Mass. Lawmakers Urge Federal Inspections of Nation’s Tunnels
Jul 17 2007 // Massachusetts lawmakers say a federal safety board’s report on last year’s fatal Big Dig ceiling collapse gives a boost to their push for a national tunnel inspection program aimed at preventing future...
Mass. To Test Drive Competitive Rating for Auto Insurance for First Time in 30 Years
Jul 16 2007 // The last time — January, 1977 — Massachusetts tried to introduce competitive rating into private passenger auto insurance, a Democrat, Michael Dukakis, was governor. The experiment lasted about seven months before...
Medical Malpractice Trial for Former Patriots Coach to Resume in Mass.
Jul 11 2007 // It was a dramatic end to a trial that pitted Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis against two respected surgeons: a juror collapsed, the doctors rushed to his aid and the judge declared a mistrial. Some in the legal...
Drinking Buddies Not Liable as Social Hosts, Mass. Court Rules
Jul 2 2007 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that friends who meet regularly after work for drinks cannot be held liable for injuries caused when one of the members of their group drives home intoxicated. The court ruled that...
Mass. Couple Indicted for Allegedly Destroying Barn for Insurance Monies
Jun 28 2007 // A Middleborough, Mass. couple have been indicted on charges they committed fraud when they attempted to collect insurance money for a barn they deliberately destroyed and then reported to be collapsed. Officials said that...
Appeals Court Gives Mass. Anti-Oil Spill Law Another Chance
Jun 25 2007 // In a case stemming from a devastating oil spill, a federal appeals court in Boston sided with environmentalists and ordered a new hearing on a Massachusetts law aimed at preventing such disasters. The Legislature passed...
Mass. Sues N.Y. Web Site Owner for Selling Free Registry Forms
Jun 25 2007 // Massachusetts officials are suing a New York man who allegedly operated a Web site that mimicked the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicle site and misled consumers into paying a fee to download forms they could obtain...
Pharmacist Wins $2 Million in Bias Suit Against Wal-Mart in Mass.
Jun 21 2007 // A former Wal-Mart pharmacist who claimed she was fired after asking to be paid the same as her male colleagues won a nearly $2 million award against the retail giant this week in Massachusetts. A Berkshire Superior Court...
Poll Finds Mass. Residents Split Over New Health Insurance Requirement
Jun 20 2007 // Massachusetts residents are split on the question of whether they should be required to pay for health insurance. Nine out of ten residents say they know about the state’s new health care law, but 49 percent of those...
