Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Mass. Extends Deadline for Key Health Care Plan Requirement
Mar 22 2007 // The board that oversees Massachusetts’ landmark health insurance law voted this week to delay key elements of the plan by a year and a half to give residents and businesses a chance to ramp up their health care...
R.I., Mass. Safest While Wyo., Ark. Deadliest States for Truck Crashes
Mar 15 2007 // Wyoming and Arkansas are the deadliest states for truck crashes, according to a safety group that has called for tougher federal regulation to reduce fatalities hovering above 100 a week nationwide for years. The safest...
Mass. Would Be First to Require Insurers Offer Drug Coverage
Mar 15 2007 // Massachusetts would become the first state in the nation to essentially require all insurers provide prescription drug coverage, under recommendations made Tuesday to the board overseeing the state’s landmark health...
It Figures
Mar 12 2007 // 5% The Virginia sales tax from which items used to prepare for a hurricane would be exempt during the last week of May each year under recently-passed legislation. Sales tax won’t be collected on portable generators...
Mass. health insurers agree on $175 a month plan under new law
Mar 12 2007 // The average uninsured Massachusetts resident could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state’s insurance law, Gov. Deval Patrick announced as he released the results of negotiations...
New Low-Price Mass. Health Plans Too Good to Be True, Advocates Say
Mar 9 2007 // Health care activists say the low-cost health insurance plans unveiled recently by Gov. Deval Patrick – some with monthly premiums as low as $175 – sound too good to be true. They point to what they say are the...
Mass. Health Insurers Agree to Offer $175 a Month Plan Under New Law
Mar 5 2007 // The average uninsured Massachusetts residents could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state’s insurance law, Gov. Deval Patrick announced as he released the results of negotiations...
New Mass. Commissioner Accustomed to Being the Judge
Mar 1 2007 // The new insurance commissioner for Massachusetts, who started on the job this week, thinks her years of experience in a judge’s robe will serve her well in her new role, one in which she sees herself as an arbiter of...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Insurers File for 13.4% Rate Drop
Mar 1 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIB) today submitted to the state Division of Insurance a proposed average rate decrease of 13.4 percent for workers’ compensation...
New Mass. Commissioner Burnes accustomed to being the judge
Feb 26 2007 // Superior Court Justice Burnes is well aware that politics comes into play in Bay State insurance regulation The new insurance commissioner for Massachusetts thinks her years of experience in a judge’s robe will serve...
Mass. auto assigned risk plan could be history before it even begins
Feb 26 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents have urged the administration of Gov. Deval Patrick to scrap a proposed auto insurance assigned risk plan that the previous administration championed for four years. Former Insurance...
It Figures
Feb 26 2007 // 1,600 The number of drivers Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says purchased car insurance from Liberty Mutual in response to a direct mail ad campaign she says was misleading. The ads promoted lower rates and...
Mass. ski area gets lift
Feb 26 2007 // The Blue Hills Ski Area in suburban Boston has reopened after the private operator of the state-owned facility found new liability insurance coverage. “We found a carrier that would work with us,” said Al...
Patrick Administration Holds Hearing Today on Mass. Assigned Risk Plan
Feb 15 2007 // There is another public hearing today in Boston on a proposed assigned risk plan for the Massachusetts auto insurance system, a plan that has been in the works and the subject of multiple hearings since 2003. Last month,...
Agents Urge Mass. to Scrap Assigned Risk Plan
Feb 15 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents today urged the administration of Gov. Deval Patrick to halt the implementation of a proposed auto insurance assigned risk plan begun by his predecessor, Mitt Romney. Implementation of the...
Auto fraud crackdown benefits Mass. urban insureds
Feb 12 2007 // High-profile crackdowns on auto insurance fraud have resulted in dramatic savings for drivers in some Massachusetts communities. The statewide average premium is scheduled to drop by nearly 12 percent on April 1, but...
HARLEYSVILLE WORCESTER REDOMESTICATES TO PA.
Feb 12 2007 // Massachusetts officials have given the green light to the redomestication of Harleysville Worcester Insurance Co. to Pennsylvania. The company is a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based Harleysville Insurance Group, whose...
Auto fraud crackdown benefits Mass. urban insureds
Feb 11 2007 // High-profile crackdowns on auto insurance fraud have resulted in dramatic savings for drivers in some Massachusetts communities. The statewide average premium is scheduled to drop by nearly 12 percent on April 1, but...
Mass. Board Reconsiders Drug Benefit in Low Cost Plans
Feb 9 2007 // The board charged with getting insurers to come up with low-cost health care plans is considering a proposal that would allow insurers to offer plans that don’t include prescription drug coverage. The goal is to...
Mass. Halts Insurer’s Auto Insurance Direct Mail Ads
Feb 8 2007 // Massachusetts officials ordered Liberty Mutual Group this week to halt a direct mail advertising campaign and pay back drivers who may have lost money from what the state attorney general called the company’s...
