Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Massachusetts Resisting Drugmakers’ Efforts to Weaken Anti-Opioid Measures
Sep 21 2016 // Massachusetts appears to be bucking efforts by makers of prescription painkillers to kill or weaken measures aimed at stemming the tide of prescription opioids. The drugmakers say they’re combating the addiction...
Massachusetts Based XS Brokers Hires Kent to Connecticut Office
Sep 20 2016 // XS Brokers, a Quincy, Mass., headquartered independent insurance brokerage, has hired Jason Kent as a broker in the firm’s Connecticut office. His hiring comes as the firm has seen continued growth in its...
Court Rules Massachusetts Law Applies in Rhode Island Contamination Suit
Sep 19 2016 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that Massachusetts law should apply in deciding whether Narragansett Electric Co. (NEC), a Rhode Island-based utilities provider, is entitled to insurance coverage for...
New Big ‘I’ Leadership Team with Chairman Houldin Installed
Sep 13 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) last week installed new officers who have begun serving their terms. Connecticut independent agent Spencer Houldin was inaugurated as the...
Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services of Massachusetts Adds Seven Members
Sep 9 2016 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a Wellesley, Mass., based network of New England independent insurance agencies, insurers and service providers, has expanded with the addition of seven new, full service member...
Court Rules Massachusetts Law Applies in Rhode Island Contamination Suit
Sep 8 2016 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that Massachusetts law should apply in deciding whether Narragansett Electric Co. (NEC), a Rhode Island-based utilities provider, is entitled to insurance coverage for...
Massachusetts’ Gordon Insurance and Atlantic Advisers Announce Merger
Sep 7 2016 // Andrew G. Gordon Insurance Inc., a Norwell, Mass., based insurance provider, and Atlantic Advisers Insurance Agency Inc., also of Norwell, Mass., have announced their merger. The companies will combine to operate as Gordon...
CVS in Massachusetts Agrees to Pay $795K to State in Opioids Settlement
Sep 6 2016 // CVS Pharmacy Inc., the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., is set to strengthen its policies around dispensing opioids in Massachusetts and pay $795,000 to the state in a recent settlement between the pharmacy and Attorney...
Massachusetts Hospitals Saw 60% Increase in Medical Errors Last Year
Sep 6 2016 // State public health officials say preventable medical errors reported by full-service Massachusetts hospitals jumped 60 percent last year, but attributed the rise in large part to a problem at a single hospital. The...
Fire Destroys 19th Century Massachusetts Farmhouse
Aug 31 2016 // A central Massachusetts farmhouse dating to 1800 has been destroyed by a fire. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports that emergency crews responded to a three-alarm fire early Sunday at a home known as the Goodrich...
Massachusetts Hospitals Saw a 60% Increase in Medical Errors Last Year
Aug 26 2016 // State public health officials say preventable medical errors reported by full-service Massachusetts hospitals jumped 60 percent last year, but attributed the rise in large part to a problem at a single hospital. The...
Massachusetts-Based Landy Insurance Lands Certified Bookkeepers Group Account
Aug 24 2016 // ICBUSA, a Scottsdale, Ariz., based member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), a London-headquartered professional membership organization for bookkeepers, and the Landy Insurance Agency of Needham, Mass., have...
Massachusetts Tax on Ridesharing to Go to Taxis, Infrastructure
Aug 22 2016 // Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft and spend the money on the traditional taxi industry, a subsidy that appears to be the first of its kind in the United...
Massachusetts Restaurant Owner Sentenced to Four Years for Insurance Fraud
Aug 19 2016 // A Leominster, Mass., man who set fire to his own restaurant to collect the insurance money has been sentenced to four years in prison. Jeffrey Cordio, who owned the West End Diner, was also sentenced in federal court to...
Massachusetts-Based PMC Insurance Hires Keenan
Aug 19 2016 // PMC Insurance Group, a Bedford, Mass., based workers’ compensation specialty wholesaler and program manager, has hired Ed Keenan as vice president of business development. In his new role, Keenan will be responsible...
Guidewire to Acquire Massachusetts Software Firm FirstBest
Aug 18 2016 // Guidewire Software Inc., a property and casualty insurance software provider headquartered in Calif., has entered into an agreement to acquire FirstBest Systems Inc., a Bedford, Mass. based provider of underwriting...
Massachusetts Motorist Injures 5 in Series of Accidents
Aug 9 2016 // Five people were injured after a motorist caused a series of accidents in Holyoke, Mass., that ignited his own vehicle and sent another hurtling into a home. Police said the incident began when a man driving at a high rate...
Massachusetts Lowers Employer Assessment
Aug 8 2016 // The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA) reduced the assessment that private employers pay to the state on workers’ compensation policies to 5.6 percent of the policy premium for the new fiscal...
Northeast Drought, Wildfire Risk Could Last Through October
Aug 8 2016 // The drought that has taken hold in the Northeast, from Maine to Pennsylvania, is being driven by a second year of below-average rainfall. Though not as dire as the West Coast drought of five-years running, the dry, hot...
OSHA Cites Massachusetts Firm for Chemical Explosion
Aug 4 2016 // A Massachusetts chemicals manufacturer has been cited by federal labor officials following a January explosion that injured four workers. The U.S. Department of Labor says an investigation by the Occupational Safety and...
