Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
PCI, AIA Oppose Mass. Bill Requiring Insurers to Report to Tax Authorities
Mar 4 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and the American Insurance Association have both gone on record as opposed to a bill being considered by the Joint Committee on Taxation that places insurers in the...
Allmerica CEO: Mass. Personal Lines Capacity Woes Could Spread to Other Lines
Mar 4 2004 // Massachusetts has a capacity crisis not just an auto market crisis which is being played out most vividly on Cape Cod and could spill over into other lines if more and bigger companies are not attracted to the state,...
Mass. Auto Insurer Hanover Sues Over High Risk ‘Conspiracy’
Mar 3 2004 // The lengths to which an auto insurer in Massachusetts may go to circumvent the state’s unique high risk pool has been brought to light by an unusual lawsuit filed by one insurer against one of its...
Mass. Officials Respond To Cape Homeowners Crisis
Feb 26 2004 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance has responded to concerns over the lack of homeowners insurance in coastal areas in the state. The Division confirmed that the Andover Group insurers, Cambridge Mutual Fire and...
Massachusetts Agents Cite Crisis in Homeowners Market on Cape Cod
Feb 24 2004 // The lack of availability of insurance for properties in Cape Cod coastal communities and in some Massachusetts urban areas has reached “crisis” proportion in the opinion of the state’s insurance agents,...
Mass. Man Pleads Guilty
Feb 23 2004 // According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, Anthony Snow of Dorchester, Mass., entered a guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris to charges involving six counts of mail fraud and three counts of...
RESIDUAL MARKETS A BURDEN:
Feb 23 2004 // A new report by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) shows that residual market plans for private passenger auto insurance continue to result in significant losses for insurance companies. All states...
Residual Markets Continue to Burden Auto Insurers
Feb 9 2004 // A new report by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) shows that residual market plans for private passenger auto insurance continue to result in significant losses for insurance companies. But one...
In Mass., Good Drivers Lose Discounts While Employer Groups Retain Theirs
Feb 9 2004 // Only three of the 19 companies still writing private passenger auto insurance in Massachusetts will offer discounts to safe drivers this year. Five years ago, there were one-third more writers of the coverage and most of...
MEADOWBROOK DEALS OUT $4 MILLION:
Feb 9 2004 // Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a Massachusetts’ third party administrator of self-insured workers’ compensation programs, is distributing $4,023,874 in dividends to 520 businesses who are members of the...
California Workers’ Comp Costs Per Claim Continue Rapid Growth
Feb 9 2004 // California workers’ compensation costs per claim in California continue to grow rapidly, increasing 15 percent from 2000 through 2001 (as of 2002) and are accelerating, according to a new study from the Cambridge,...
No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
Mass. Agents Assn. Stresses Need for Participation in Auto Cost Study
Feb 4 2004 // If you’re asked to participate in the 2004 private passenger auto insurance agency cost study, it’s crucial for your future to do so. That’s the message the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents...
Mass. Man Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Jan 29 2004 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced that “Anthony Snow, age 43, of 1810 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris to an Information...
PCI Pleased with Mass. Legislators on Internet Bill
Jan 27 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America praised the actions of the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor for its approval of a bill, HB 1622, that would protect Massachusetts...
Confusion Reigns on the Massachusetts Auto Front
Jan 26 2004 // While everyone agrees that something should be done about Massachusetts’ spiraling auto rates and uncompetitive market, no one seems to be able to agree on just what. When the state’s Department of Insurance...
Meadowbrook/TPA Distributes $4 Million to Mass. Workers’ Comp Self-Insured Groups
Jan 22 2004 // Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a third-party administrator of self-insured workers’ compensation programs, announced that it is distributing $4,023,874 in dividends to 520 Massachusetts businesses who are members of the...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Costs Per Claim Continue Rapid Growth
Jan 21 2004 // California workers’ compensation costs per claim in California continue to grow rapidly, increasing 15 percent from 2000 through 2001 (as of 2002) and are accelerating, according to a new study from the Cambridge,...
NAMIC Applauds Mass. Governor’s Call for Auto Insurance Reform
Jan 20 2004 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has issued a bulletin applauding Governor Mitt Romney’s call for reform of the Massachusetts automobile market. In his State of the State address, the governor...
