Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Mass. SJC Says Police Can Make Drugged Driving Arrest Based on Observations
Jan 17 2019 // The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a state police officer was justified in arresting a suspect for driving under the influence of marijuana based on the officer’s observations of the driver’s...
Family Behind Purdue Pharma Pushed Opioid Marketing, Massachusetts Says
Jan 16 2019 // Members of the wealthy Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma LP pushed it to boost sales of OxyContin and other opioids even as questions emerged about the extent its painkillers were being abused, Massachusetts’...
Risk Strategies Hires Murray, Power in Massachusetts
Jan 15 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has selected Bret Murray to oversee its national higher education practice. Most recently, Murray was director of risk management and...
Exxon Bid to Halt Climate Change Probes Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the attorney general of Massachusetts to obtain records from Exxon Mobil Corp to probe whether the oil company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil...
Business Moves
Jan 7 2019 // WebBank, National Partners Salt Lake City-based digital lender WebBank has agreed to acquire Denver-based National Partners, an insurance premium finance company and subsidiary of MLF Financial Group. This is the first...
2018 Agents of the Year
Jan 7 2019 // Jacob Barzivand Paramount Exclusive Insurance Services Inc. | Encino, California Jacob Barzivand started working as an insurance producer right after college at the age of 20. Now, at just 26, he’s built a sizable...
Kaplansky Insurance Acquires Massachusetts’ Burak Insurance
Jan 4 2019 // Kaplansky Insurance, an independent, locally owned agency in the Northeast, has acquired Burak Insurance, located in Canton, Mass. The addition of Burak marks Kaplansky Insurance’s 31st overall acquisition and its...
Wisconsin Real-Time Weather Data Startup Poised for Expansion
Jan 2 2019 // Understory, a Madison, Wisconsin, startup whose ultra-local weather sensors can tell if a hailstorm that pelted your roof or a downpour that flooded your street left damage in its wake, is heading into a year of explosive...
Insurance Journal East’s Top Stories for 2018: Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, Auto Insurance, Mass. Gas Explosions
Dec 31 2018 // As Insurance Journal looks back on the most popular stories of 2018, its readers in the East region showed interest in a variety of topics from auto insurance to the September gas explosions in Massachusetts to state...
Alleging Fraud, Minnesota AG Swanson Sues Comcast
Dec 28 2018 // Minnesota’s attorney general sued Comcast/Xfinity on Dec. 21, alleging that the company has overcharged thousands of consumers for cable TV packages, charged them for unordered equipment and services, and failed to...
Massachusetts Bill Would Bar Workers from Being Fired for Private Pot Use
Dec 28 2018 // A proposed law in Massachusetts would bar employers from firing workers for using marijuana legally on their own time. While recreational marijuana use is legal for adults in the state, workers can still be fired for using...
The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ H.J. Knight International Insurance Agency
Dec 27 2018 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Massachusetts-based H.J. Knight International Insurance Agency Inc. (HJK). The transaction became effective December 1, 2018. HJK is a full-service brokerage in the commercial...
Officials Identify Worker Who Fell Down Elevator Shaft in Massachusetts
Dec 21 2018 // Officials have identified the construction worker who died after falling down an elevator shaft in Massachusetts as 41-year-old Carlos Ortiz. The Essex district attorney’s office says Ortiz was working on the roof of...
The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ Bruce Crohn
Dec 19 2018 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Bruce Crohn LLC. The transaction became effective December 1, 2018. Founded in 2009, Crohn is a full-service employee benefits consultant and insurance brokerage firm located in...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Grill Natural Gas Execs After September Explosions
Dec 14 2018 // Natural gas companies in Massachusetts are compromising safety by increasingly turning to outside contractors for pipeline work while cutting back on staff that would oversee these projects, state lawmakers said Tuesday at...
The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ Mackintire Insurance Agency
Dec 13 2018 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Massachusetts-based Mackintire Insurance Agency Inc. The transaction became effective December 1, 2018. Mackintire is a commercial and personal lines retail insurance agency founded in...
Hub Acquires Assets of Pennsylvania’s Nolen Associates, Massachusetts’ Dadgar Insurance
Dec 13 2018 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Nolen Associates Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Springfield, Penn., Nolen Associates is a full-service...
Kaplansky Insurance Acquires Massachusetts’ Burak Insurance
Dec 12 2018 // Kaplansky Insurance, an independent, Needham, Mass.-based agency, has acquired Burak Insurance, located in Canton, Mass. The addition of Burak marks Kaplansky Insurance’s 31st overall acquisition and its fourth for...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Eye Action on Natural Gas Safety Bill
Dec 12 2018 // Top Statehouse Democrats say they’re hoping to pass legislation aimed at improving natural gas infrastructure safety before the end of the year. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker filed the bill. On Monday, he met with...
Massachusetts’ Energi Names Windstein Chief Underwriting Officer
Dec 10 2018 // Energi, the Peabody, Mass.-headquartered parent company for Energi Insurance Services Inc., has named Michael Windstein as chief underwriting officer. In this role, Windstein will support Energi’s underwriting...
