Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Judge Approves $7M Malpractice Settlement for Massachusetts Couple
May 9 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has approved a $7 million settlement for a Shrewsbury family who claimed medical negligence in the birth of their daughter. The lawsuit filed in 2008 lawsuit against two doctors, a nurse practitioner...
Report Shows Fewer Massachusetts Worker Deaths Last Year
May 3 2011 // A new report finds that fewer workers died on the job in Massachusetts in 2010 than in the previous year. But the report from the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health...
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Rates Not Going Up
Apr 13 2011 // Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise. Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold...
Massachusetts Mom Sues Rhode Island Bakery over Tainted Pastries
Apr 6 2011 // A Massachusetts woman is suing a Rhode Island bakery alleging that its pastries gave her son salmonella. Attorneys for Erin Carrera filed the lawsuit Monday against DeFusco’s Bakery in Johnston. Carrera, of Rehoboth,...
Massachusetts Ex-Prison Worker Gets Probation for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2011 // A former Massachusetts prisons worker has been sentenced to five years of probation for defrauding the state by running long-distance races while collecting worker’s compensation for an on-the-job injury. John...
Agreement Leaves Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates Flat
Mar 21 2011 // The organization that files workers’ comp rates in Massachusetts has agreed to leave premiums flat through next year, following an agreement with the state’s attorney general that blocked a proposed increase of...
Massachusetts Urged to Remove Dangerous Dams
Mar 16 2011 // Lawmakers were told Monday that unsafe, abandoned or obsolete dams are “time bombs” that pose a threat to public safety and wildlife habitats in Massachusetts and need to be repaired or dismantled as quickly as...
ProMutual Reduces Premiums for Massachusetts Dentists
Mar 8 2011 // Boston-based medical professional liability insurer ProMutual Group said it is decreasing premium rates for dentists in Massachusetts by 10 percent. The insurer said analysis by the company revealed lower than anticipated...
Agreement Leaves Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates Flat
Mar 2 2011 // The organization that files workers’ comp rates in Massachusetts has agreed to leave premiums flat through next year, following an agreement with the state’s attorney general that blocked a proposed increase of...
Massachusetts’ Morrill Group Acquires Goldman Ernest & Liner
Feb 18 2011 // Morrill Group, an independent insurance agency based in Norwood, Mass., has acquired Goldman Ernest & Liner Insurance Agency of Needham, Mass. Goldman, Ernest & Liner Insurance Agency Inc. will operate as a...
Brown & Brown Acquires Two Massachusetts Agencies
Feb 17 2011 // Brown & Brown has acquired United Benefit Services and Beverly T. Gottlieb & Associates, two metro-Boston agencies specializing in employee benefits and related insurance products. Terms of the deal were not...
Mood on Main Street: How Recession Changed Insurance Buying Habits
Feb 15 2011 // The recession has taken its toll on contractors, restaurants, retailers, small manufacturers and other Main Street business around the country and most of the survivors are not going to soon forget the pain of the past few...
Coakley Urges Massachusetts Regulators to Reject Rate Hike by Progressive
Feb 11 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is urging state insurance regulators to reject Progressive’s request for a 23.5 percent rate hike for commercial auto coverage. Coakley’s office says...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2011 // Breckenridge, REcentis New York-based wholesaler Breckenridge IS has acquired a majority interest in REcentis Intermediaries, a specialty reinsurance broker with offices in California and Australia. Terms of the deal were...
Massachusetts Allows for Terrorism Exclusion in Commercial Insurance
Feb 7 2011 // Commercial property insurers in Massachusetts will be allowed to exclude terrorism coverage from commercial fire insurance policies under a new law signed by Gov. Deval Patrick. The law modifies the standard fire insurance...
Massachusetts Attorney General Wants Tougher Workers’ Comp Penalties
Feb 7 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wants more severe criminal penalties for businesses that go without workers’ compensation insurance for their employees. A bill filed earlier this month by...
New Snow Liability for Massachusetts Property Owners
Feb 7 2011 // “Is it true that if I don’t shovel the snow then I can’t be sued?” As inevitably as the seasons change, this is a question that comes up every fall. For many years, my answer was both lengthy and...
The Mood On Main Street
Feb 7 2011 // Has the recession changed how small business feels about insurance? The recession has taken its toll on contractors, restaurants, retailers, small manufacturers and other Main Street business around the country and most of...
Massachusetts Attorney General Wants Tougher Workers’ Comp Penalties
Jan 31 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wants more severe criminal penalties for businesses that go without workers’ compensation insurance for their employees. A bill filed earlier this month by...
Massachusetts Allows for Terrorism Exclusion in Commercial Insurance
Jan 28 2011 // Commercial property insurers in Massachusetts will be allowed to exclude terrorism coverage from commercial fire insurance policies under a new law signed by Gov. Deval Patrick. The law modifies the standard fire insurance...
