Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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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...
Police: Mass. Temp Agency Paid Cash to Avoid Taxes, Insurance
Mar 22 2010 // Two former owners of a temporary employment agency in Massachusetts have been charged with paying more than $24 million in unreported cash to employees as part of a conspiracy to avoid paying more than $7 million dollars...
Massachusetts Warns Car Dealers over Insurance Advice
Mar 15 2010 // Auto dealers in the Bay State must be careful of what they tell car-buyers about purchasing insurance, the Massachusetts Division of Insurance warns dealers in a newly issued bulletin. State law prohibits anyone without an...
Beecher Carlson to Refund $90,000 Under Massachusetts Settlement
Mar 7 2010 // Insurance brokerage Beecher Carlson will refund over $90,000 to Massachusetts clients who were not told the firm was receiving commissions from insurers in addition to client-paid fees, as part of a settlement with the...
Massachusetts Woman’s Family Sues Cosmetic Surgery Company
Mar 5 2010 // The family of a Massachusetts woman who died shortly after doctors started a cosmetic surgery procedure on her has sued the national company that was overseeing the operation. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Middlesex...
Mass. AG Coakley Opposes Proposed Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike
Mar 3 2010 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said she opposes an insurance industry request to raise workers’ compensation premiums by about four percent this year. She said the hike would put an “additional...
Massachusetts Worker’s Compensation Premium Rates Could Rise
Mar 2 2010 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurance rates would rise an average of 4.5 percent under a new rate proposal submitted by the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau. The bureau is the licensed...
Former Mass. Commissioner Singer Joins Everest Re Board
Feb 26 2010 // The Bermuda-based Everest Re Group announced the appointment of Roger M. Singer to its Board of Directors, effective February 24, 2010. He formerly served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for One...
Beecher Carlson to Refund $90K Under Massachusetts Settlement
Feb 25 2010 // Insurance brokerage Beecher Carlson will refund over $90,000 to several Massachusetts clients who were not told the firm was receiving commissions from insurers in addition to client-paid fees, as part of a settlement with...
Business Moves
Feb 21 2010 // OneBeacon, Tower Group Massachusetts-based OneBeacon Insurance Group has agreed to sell its personal lines business to Tower Group Inc. in a deal that comprises two affiliate insurers and two reciprocal insurance exchanges...
Massachusetts Settles with Five Auto Insurers over Unreported Appeals
Feb 17 2010 // Five more auto insurers in Massachusetts have reached settlements with the state’s attorney general over their failure to update at-fault accident information for drivers whom they insure. The companies involved in...
Mass. Supreme Court Rules Against Agents in Auto Insurance Lawsuit
Feb 16 2010 // The Massachusetts Supreme Court has sided with the state’s insurance commissioner in a heated lawsuit brought by the state’s insurance agents and Arbella Mutual Insurance Co. over how new companies are assigned...
