Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Supreme Court Weighs Commissioner’s Authority
Mar 10 2006 // The Massachusetts Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in a case that could decide the future of the state’s auto insurance market. Commerce Insurance Company v. Commissioner of...
Citing Tax Question, Mass. Gov. Romney Hesitates Over Health Plan
Mar 8 2006 // Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has held off on saying whether he’ll support a sweeping health care reform bill crafted by legislative leaders until he can determine if it would require a tax increase to pay for...
Mass. Closer to Employer Charge, Individual Mandate for Health Coverage
Mar 6 2006 // Massachusetts moved a step closer to dramatically expanding health coverage last week after House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini said they’ve broken a legislative impasse blocking a...
Citizens Bank Selling Insurance Agencies to Hub International
Mar 1 2006 // Citizens Financial Group is selling its considerable insurance agency businesses to Hub International Limited in a deal that includes a strategic alliance between the two for future sales and marketing. Hub will purchase...
Transit Chief in Mass. Placed on Leave as Insurance Probe Continues
Feb 26 2006 // The director of one of Masachusetts’ largest regional transit authorities has been placed on paid administrative leave as federal agents investigate his handling of contracts and bids, including ones for...
Meadowbrook/TPA Returns $2.5M to Mass. Workers’ Comp Self-Insureds
Feb 22 2006 // Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a third-party administrator of self-insured workers’ compensation programs, announced it is distributing $2,475,000 in dividends to 475 Massachusetts businesses that are members of the...
Provider Insurance in Mass. Adds Doucette for Personal Lines
Feb 16 2006 // Jaimie Doucette has joined the Needham, Mass.- based insurance agency, Provider Insurance Group, as an account manager in personal lines insurance. In her position, Doucette advises clients on automobile and home owners...
Mass. needs new insurance capital to weather big storm
Feb 6 2006 // The Massachusetts economy could be battered if a major storm were to hit the metropolitan Boston area because the state’s homeowners insurance market is undercapitalized, the state’s insurance regulator is...
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Feb 5 2006 // Mass. needs new insurance capital to weather big storm The Massachusetts economy could be battered if a major storm were to hit the metropolitan Boston area because the state’s homeowners insurance market is...
Report Cites Mass. Employers with Workers in State Health Pools
Feb 3 2006 // Thousands of workers employed by some of the state’s top retailers, restaurants and hospitals in Massachusetts are relying on taxpayers to pick up the tab for their health care, according to a report released this...
Mass. Lawyer Hid Stolen Cezanne, Other Paintings for 28 Years
Feb 2 2006 // A retired Massachusetts lawyer secretly held seven stolen paintings, including a Paul Cezanne still-life worth millions of dollars, for 28 years because he wanted a 10 percent finders fee, the Boston Globe reported...
CPCU National Leadership Courses Coming to Mass. on March 23
Jan 31 2006 // On March 23, the Chartered Pproperty Casualty Society and its Central Massachusetts and Boston Chapters will be hosting two CPCU Society National Leadership Institute courses, Strategic Thinking and Strategic Planning. The...
Mass. to Begin Reassigning 15% of Residual Auto Policies in March
Jan 29 2006 // A plan to redistribute residual market auto insurance policies among insurance carriers and agents in Massachusetts has been approved by state officials. The final plan for Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers will require that...
Mass. Economic Warning: Insurance Market Short on Capital
Jan 27 2006 // Massachusetts is facing a shortage of insurance capital that could jeopardize the state’s entire economy, especially if a major storm hits the metropolitan Boston area, the Commonwealth’s insurance regulator is...
Vermont Mutual Latest to Exit Cape Cod Mass. Homeowners Market
Jan 26 2006 // Another insurer has decided it can’t continue to write homeowners insurance policies on Cape Cod. Starting April 1, Vermont Mutual will stop renewing about 4,700 homeowners and 400 dwelling policies, Tom Tierney,...
Mass. Man Sentenced to Jail for Perjury, Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 24 2006 // A Gloucester, Massachusetts man has been sentenced to jail for committing perjury in relation to a workers’ compensation scheme, Attorney General Tom Reilly announced. Timothy Hayes, 39, pleaded guilty this month to...
Mass. Man Pleads Innocent in Alleged Fraud That Killed Grandmother
Jan 22 2006 // Two brothers from Lawrence, one charged with murder and the other with manslaughter in unrelated cases, were ordered held without bail after pleading innocent at their arraignments in Salem Superior Court on...
Commerce Group CEO Remillard to Retire in July; Fels Will Succeed Him
Jan 19 2006 // Arthur J. Remillard, Jr., the founder and chief executive officer of The Commerce Group, Inc., announced his intention to retire at the end of July of this year, culminating a 40 year career in the property and casualty...
Nickelodeon, Kellogg Targeted in Suit to Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids
Jan 19 2006 // Parents and advocacy groups are filing suit against Viacom’s Nickelodeon media outlets and snack and cereal giant Kellogg to stop them from marketing junk food to young children. The plaintiffs maintain that these...
Northeast Winds Topple Trees, Power Lines from Mass. to Maryland
Jan 18 2006 // Usually snow and ice are the culprits this time of year in the Northeast for problems with the weather. Wednesday, though, proved to be Mother Nature offering a different problem for residents. Winds, in some cases...
