Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Massachusetts Settles With Commerce over Insurance Appeals Errors
Feb 9 2010 // Massachusetts has reached a settlement with the Bay State’s largest auto insurer, Commerce Insurance Co., over its failure to report at-fault auto accident determinations made by the state’s board of appeals,...
Murphy Named Insurance Commissioner in Massachusetts
Feb 9 2010 // Joseph G. Murphy has been named commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance. Murphy has served as first deputy commissioners since 2006, playing active roles in the implementation of the managed competition...
Massachusetts Encouraging Brokerage Agreements for Former ERPs
Feb 5 2010 // Most Massachusetts insurance agents who were appointed as exclusive representative producers (ERPs) under the state’s previous insurance regime have obtained voluntary contracts with insurers or have merged with...
Ratings Recap: Mass. Homeland/York, Rockhill, Paratransit, MGA,
Feb 3 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has placed the financial strength ratings of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a” of Massachusetts Homeland Insurance Company and York Insurance Company of Maine under...
Massachusetts Woman Dies After Being Struck by Fire Hose
Feb 2 2010 // An 82-year-old Massachusetts woman struck by a fire hose that had come loose from a Cambridge fire engine that was responding to call has died. Cambridge police says Gertrude King died Thursday morning at Massachusetts...
Massachusetts to Allow Surcharge Appeals for Recalled Vehicles
Feb 1 2010 // Massachusetts insurance regulators will allow some Toyota drivers who were involved in accidents linked to unintended acceleration to appeal insurance surcharges assessed by their carriers. The move follows Toyota’s...
Couple Sues Massachusetts Hospital over Death of Children
Jan 27 2010 // The parents of two children whose aunt carried them onto a highway where all three were struck and killed, have sued a psychiatric hospital for allegedly failing to properly treat the woman’s mental illness. Ken and...
Massachusetts Safety Officials Warn of Home Oxygen Risks
Jan 25 2010 // Massachusetts fire safety officials have begun a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of home oxygen use. Fire officials say home oxygen use has been a factor in 24 fire deaths and 50 serious injuries in...
Republican Win in Massachusetts Could Jeopardize Healthcare Bill
Jan 20 2010 // In a stunning blow to President Barack Obama, Republican Scott Brown won a bitter U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts Tuesday and promised to be the deciding vote against his sweeping healthcare overhaul. Brown’s win...
Mass. Officials Pinpoint Cause of Fire That Injured 6
Jan 15 2010 // Fire investigators say a weekend blaze at a Malden apartment building that sent six people to the hospital was caused by an electrical problem. The fire forced dozens from their homes early Saturday morning and caused an...
Safety Agrees to Change Motorcycle Premium Calculations in Massachusetts
Jan 15 2010 // Boston-based insurer Safety Insurance Group Inc. said it has reached an agreement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office to change the way in which it calculated motorcycle insurance premiums for certain...
Insurance Agents Fined for Not Having Written Security Plans
Jan 10 2010 // Recent headlines underscore the importance of agents having written security plans to protect the privacy of their clients’ personal information. Not only could a breach of clients’ personal information...
Report: Deregulation Made Massachusetts Auto Insurance Market Worse
Jan 10 2010 // The deregulation of the Massachusetts auto insurance market has driven up prices, boosted insurer profits, reduced consumer protections and generally created confusion in the marketplace, according to a new report by the...
Man Arrested in Massachusetts Arson Spree
Jan 6 2010 // Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a fire in Northampton, Massachusetts that claimed the life of an elderly man and his son. District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel said in a statement that 25-year-old Anthony...
Task Force Formed to Probe Massachusetts Fires
Dec 29 2009 // A task force of state, regional and federal officials is investigating a string of suspicious weekend fires in Massachusetts, including one in which two people died. At least nine fires were reported early Sunday in houses...
Report: Deregulation Made Massachusetts Auto Insurance Market Worse
Dec 28 2009 // The deregulation of the Massachusetts auto insurance market has driven up prices, boosted insurer profits, reduced consumer protections and generally created confusion in the marketplace, according to a new report by the...
Massachusetts AG Sues Agency Accused of Collecting Bogus Fees
Dec 28 2009 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the owners and agents of a Bay State insurance agency, alleging the business pocketed $3.4 million in fees it disguised as insurance...
Massachusetts Woman Sues Nursing Home Where She Worked
Dec 23 2009 // A Northampton woman claims in a lawsuit filed against the Holyoke nursing home where she worked for three years that she was fired for complaining about improper treatment of patients. Joan Johnson is seeking $56,000 in...
Massachusetts Court: No Workers’ Comp for Custodian’s 1999 Injury
Dec 22 2009 // A church custodian who was injured in a ladder fall, but waited nearly five years to file a workers’ comp claim is barred from collecting benefits, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The employee in this case,...
2009 P/C Insurance Mergers, Acquisitions Large and Small
Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....
