Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Massachusetts City Seeks Texting While Driving Ban
Jun 9 2010 // Springfield, Massachusetts has taken a step toward banning texting while driving. The city council on Monday passed a home rule petition by a 12-1 margin that would allow police to fine anyone who sends or receives text...
The Hanover Offers Auto Discount for Crash-Prevention Training
Jun 9 2010 // The Hanover says it will offer Massachusetts drivers a discount on a special course in crash prevention skills and safe-driver techniques. The program, run by In Control Crash Prevention Training, is the only one of its...
Best Upgrades Travelers Group Issuer Credit Ratings; Revises Outlook
Jun 9 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “aa” from “aa-” of Travelers Group, its P/C members and affiliate, Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America (TCSA) and...
Massachusetts AG Wants New Regulations for Insurers, Agents
Jun 7 2010 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is proposing new regulations that she says will rein in sales and underwriting practices for auto insurers and agents in the state. The regulations come in response to a report...
Massachusetts RMV Adds Online Scheduling of Road Tests
Jun 2 2010 // The Internet generation is about to get something it may value more than Facebook or instant-messaging: the ability to schedule driver’s license road tests online. Until Tuesday, 161/2 year olds had to call a...
Massachusetts AG Wants New Regulations for Insurers, Agents
May 28 2010 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is proposing new regulations that she says will rein in sales and underwriting practices for auto insurers and agents in the state. The regulations come in response to a report...
Report: Massachusetts Doctors Under Increasing Pressure
May 27 2010 // The Massachusetts Medical Society says the state’s doctors are under increasing pressure from a series of factors — including malpractice insurance prices — a trend that could undermine patient care. The...
DiNardo Joins Provider Insurance in Massachusetts
May 27 2010 // Massachusetts insurance agency Provider Insurance Group has hired Peter A. DiNardo as a commercial lines account executive. DiNardo has more than 12 years of experience, specializing in property and casualty insurance for...
Massachusetts Greenhouse Fires Causes $4.5M in Damage
May 13 2010 // Investigators say a five-alarm fire that caused an estimated $4.5 million in damages to a Sudbury, Massachusetts greenhouse operation was caused by a tractor malfunction. The state fire marshal and the Sudbury fire chief...
Massachusetts Cuts Worker’s Comp Rates
May 12 2010 // Massachusetts has approved a 2.4 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs, a figure that should reduce premiums by an estimated $22.5 million this year. Originally the Workers’ Compensation...
Four More Massachusetts Insurers Settle over Driving Records
May 6 2010 // Nearly 10,000 Massachusetts drivers’ records will be corrected after four insurers reached settlements with the state over their failure to do so. Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office reached settlements...
Ratings Roundup: United Fire, Tall Pines, Safety Group, Plateau
May 5 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a” of United Fire & Casualty Group...
Mass. Court: Lease Agreement to Buy Insurance Trumps State Law
May 3 2010 // A lease agreement to buy insurance for a landlord trumps a state law that prohibits property owners from requiring tenants to indemnify landlords for their own negligence, Massachusetts highest court ruled. The decision...
Mass. Court: Lease Agreement to Buy Insurance Trumps State Law
Apr 21 2010 // A lease agreement to buy insurance for a landlord trumps state law that prohibits property owners from requiring tenants to indemnify landlords for their own negligence, Massachusetts highest court ruled. The decision...
Massachusetts Fire Marshal Investigates 8 Everett Arsons
Apr 13 2010 // The Massachusetts state fire marshal and Everett officials are investigating eight fires they say were deliberately set. Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said Sunday that the fires were set during a 45-minute period between 11...
Massachusetts Jury Awards $1.6M in Suit over College Student’s Death
Apr 5 2010 // A jury has awarded a Massachusetts couple $1.6 million in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of their son on a college basketball court. Antwoine Key, a 22-year-old senior at Eastern Connecticut State University,...
Liberty Mutual Refunding Massachusetts Motorcycle Premiums
Apr 1 2010 // Attorney General Martha Coakley says Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. has sent out over $3 million in motorcycle insurance refunds to roughly 9,000 Massachusetts residents the company allegedly overcharged for collision and...
Flooding Expected Following Prolonged Downpours in Massachusetts
Mar 29 2010 // Forecasters say flooding is likely in some areas in Massachusetts with prolonged downpours today and tomorrow. Rainfall totals could be 2-1/2 to 5 inches, with some areas getting more. Alan Dunham of the weather service...
Massachusetts Jury Awards $1.6M in Suit over College Student’s Death
Mar 29 2010 // A jury has awarded a Massachusetts couple $1.6 million in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of their son on a college basketball court. Antwoine Key, a 22-year-old senior at Eastern Connecticut State University,...
Massachusetts Congressmen Request Disaster Help After Floods
Mar 22 2010 // The Massachusetts Congressional delegation has asked President Barack Obama to issue a disaster declaration after last week’s flooding. Ten inches of rain fell in Massachusetts over three days, causing floods that...
