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Mass. Senate to Consider Ban on Using Handheld Cellphones While Driving
Jan 21 2016 // Motorists in Massachusetts may soon have to put down their cellphones when they’re on the road. A bill prohibiting the use of hand-held mobile electronic devices while driving would also make it illegal to enter...
Mass. Association of Insurance Agents CEO Mancini to Retire at End of 2016
Jan 15 2016 // Francis A. Mancini The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) announced Thursday that its longtime president and chief executive officer, Francis A. Mancini, will retire from the association at the end of...
Massachusetts House OKs Drug Offender Driver’s License Bill
Jan 11 2016 // The Massachusetts House signed off on a measure last week that would end the state’s longstanding policy of automatically suspending for up to five years the driver’s licenses of people convicted of drug...
Massachusetts Homeowners Express Concern Over Rising Rates
Jan 11 2016 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently published on its website written public comments that were received in conjunction with the Division’s informational hearings on the Massachusetts home insurance...
Massachusetts Rejects Mapfre’s Ice-Dam Deductible Request
Jan 11 2016 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently denied the state’s largest commercial home insurer’s request to add an ice-dam deductible to some policies. Mapfre USA Corp. had asked the Division to approve...
Mass. Consumers, Businesses to Pay More for Health Insurance in 2016
Jan 7 2016 // Massachusetts consumers and businesses are expected to pay more for health insurance in 2016. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s biggest commercial insurer, is raising premiums an average of 5...
Mass. Homeowners See Higher Premiums After Last Year’s Winter Storms
Jan 6 2016 // Massachusetts residents are still getting hit by last year’s brutal winter. The Boston Globe reports that more homeowners are getting stuck with higher insurance bills following last year’s record-setting...
Mass. Health Insurers Partner With Police to Help Heroin Addicts
Jan 6 2016 // Health insurers in Massachusetts are pitching in to help the Gloucester Police Department with their well-known program to get heroin addicts into treatment. Under a pilot program launched Monday, members of the...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Consider Changes to Bicycle Laws
Jan 5 2016 // Bicyclists can get little respect on the road — from drivers, pedestrians, even fellow cyclists. Sometimes the angry stares are deserved, but more often the friction stems from the fact that bicycles, cars, buses,...
Insurance Journal’s Most Popular East Region Stories of 2015
Dec 31 2015 // As the year 2015 comes to a close, here’s a look at InsuranceJournal.com’s most popular East region news stories of the year. Among the 1,100 stories posted in the East region this year, the following were 50...
Tarpey Insurance Group Acquires Wilson Insurance in Massachusetts
Dec 31 2015 // Tarpey Insurance Group Inc., a family-owned and operated independent agency based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with four additional locations in the state, announced that it has acquired the assets of the Wilson Insurance...
Massachusetts Officials Urge Drone Owners to Be Safe Over Holidays
Dec 30 2015 // State officials in Massachusetts are urging drone owners to fly responsibly this holiday season. The state Department of Transportation released suggested guidelines for operating the small, unmanned aircrafts this...
Mass. Consumer Comments Highlight Concerns Over Home Insurance Rates
Dec 30 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently published on its website written public comments that were received in conjunction with the Division’s informational hearings on the Massachusetts home insurance...
Mass. Workers’ Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau Proposes Rate Hike
Dec 28 2015 // The Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIBMA) has submitted a rate filing to the Division of Insurance on behalf of its members. The Dec. 23 filing recommends a 6.4 percent...
Massachusetts AG Faults Insurers’ Rate Hikes
Dec 21 2015 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says two of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurance companies won excessive and unwarranted rate increases of about 9 percent by taking advantage of last...
Assurant to Pay Restitution to Massachusetts Homeowners
Dec 21 2015 // The largest force-placed insurer in Massachusetts has agreed to provide refunds to homeowners to settle allegations that it improperly charged for force-placed insurance policies, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura...
Massachusetts Rejects Mapfre’s Ice-Dam Deductible Request
Dec 17 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently denied a request by Mapfre USA Corp. to add an ice-dam deductible to some homeowners policyholders who previously had multiple ice-dam claims. Mapfre USA Corp., the largest...
Mass. Lawmakers Weigh 2-Tiered Driver’s License Identification System
Dec 17 2015 // Among the many issues that Massachusetts lawmakers may deal with after returning from recess in January is whether to bring the state into compliance with REAL ID, a federal program that sets new requirements for...
Massachusetts to Receive $120M in Disaster Aid for Last Winter’s Snowfall
Dec 11 2015 // Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts is expecting to receive $120 million in federal disaster assistance following last winter’s record snowfall. That’s the most ever awarded to the state as the...
Woodruff-Sawyer to Acquire Capstone Insurance in Massachusetts
Dec 8 2015 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co., an independent brokerage based in San Francisco, announced today that it will be acquiring Capstone Insurance, the property/casualty brokerage division of Newton, Massachusetts-based financial...
