Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts Approves New Rates for Electric Insurance Co.
Nov 12 2008 // Beverly, Massachusetts-based personal lines insurer Electric Insurance Co. said the Massachusetts Department of Insurance has approved its newest rate filing, which will decrease its personal auto insurance rates by an...
Family of Massachusetts Cancer Patient Gets $13.5M
Nov 7 2008 // A lawyer says the family of a 40-year-old woman who died after receiving experimental cancer drugs at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has been awarded $13.5 million in a lawsuit. Robert Higgins, a lawyer for the...
Mass. Drivers Slow to Shop Under New Auto System
Nov 2 2008 // Barely six months into Massachusetts’ new deregulated auto insurance system — one designed to favor consumers who shop around for the best rates — fewer than one in four drivers have actually done so, according...
Mass. Surviving Bumps in the Auto Insurance Road
Nov 2 2008 // Burnes Rules Out Permitting Insurers to Use Credit Scores; Goes Slow on Property Market Issues Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has presided over the biggest shakeup in the Massachusetts’ personal...
Mass. Agents Contribute $1.9B to the State’s Economy
Nov 2 2008 // As employers, taxpayers, consumers and charitable contributors, Massachusetts’ independent insurance agents make a $1.9 billion cumulative contribution to the Bay State’s economy last year, according to a new...
Mass. Reports More Drunk Driving Arrests, Rehabs Under New Law
Oct 31 2008 // State officials say that since Melanie’s Law was enacted, more suspected drunken drivers are being arrested, and more repeat offenders are completing a program to keep them from drinking and driving. Motor Vehicles...
Mass. Insurance Agency President Named to Turnpike Board
Oct 29 2008 // Gov. Deval Patrick swore in the newest member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board this week, but that formality did not stop the new board member, John Jenkins, from weighing in last week and helping postpone the...
Labo Joins Mass. Insurance Agency Rogers & Gray
Oct 29 2008 // Agency President Charles N. Robinson announced the recent addition of Eric Labo to Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency, Inc., as a personal lines sales executive. Prior to joining the agency, Labo was employed by Wells...
Companies to Pay $312K in Mass. Oil Spill
Oct 24 2008 // Three companies allegedly responsible for spilling about 18,000 gallons of fuel oil into the Chelsea River and Mill Creek in Revere in Massachusetts have agreed to pay $312,500 to a restoration fund. The oil was released...
Massachusetts RMV Trims Hours, Services to Deal with Cuts
Oct 20 2008 // The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles will cut branch hours as it scales back amid a massive, statewide budget cut. The RMV saw $2 million chopped from its budget as part of $1 billion in cuts and spending controls...
Study Says Mass. Agents Contribute $1.9B to the State’s Economy
Oct 20 2008 // As employers, taxpayers, consumers and charitable contributors, Massachusetts’ independent insurance agents make a $1.9 billion cumulative contribution to the Bay State’s economy last year, according to a new...
Agents Balk as Mass. Weighs Ending Auto Surcharge Appeals
Oct 20 2008 // People who have switched policies, and everyone who must renew them in the future, could lose their appellate right under the new regulations. The Massachusetts insurance commissioner, addressing a concern of some...
Survey: Massachusetts Drivers Slow to Shop Under New Insurance Rules
Oct 17 2008 // Barely six months into Massachusetts’ new deregulated auto insurance system – one that supposedly favors consumers who shop around for the best rates – fewer than one in four drivers have actually done...
Massachusetts Man Charged with Staging Crash Found in New Jersey
Oct 16 2008 // A Lawrence, Massachusetts man wanted for allegedly helping stage a car crash that resulted in the death of a great-grandmother and led to a statewide crackdown of auto insurance fraud has been arrested in New...
Mass. May End Auto Insurance Appeals; Agents Balk
Oct 13 2008 // The Massachusetts insurance commissioner, addressing a concern of some insurers, is considering eliminating the unique right under which Bay State drivers have been able to appeal auto premium surcharges they consider...
GOP Candidate Challenges Sen. Kerry on AIG Bailout
Oct 10 2008 // Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s Republican challenger in Massachusetts called on him to sell any stock he has in insurance giant American International Group and donate all campaign contributions from officials at the...
Plymouth Rock Aims to Make Life Easier for Mass. Policyholders
Oct 6 2008 // Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. is now offering its MYLES –Make Your Life Easier Services program — free of charge to all of its Massachusetts customers. The insurer says MYLES customers can save time, money and...
Massachusetts Crackdown on Insurance Fraud Sets Milestones
Oct 3 2008 // Five years after the creation of Massachusetts’ first local anti-insurance fraud team, the state’s Insurance Fraud Bureau says the combined local task forces have charged over 1,000 people with insurance...
Provider Insurance in Mass. Buys Gorman Agency Accounts
Sep 30 2008 // Needham, Mass.-based Provider Insurance Group, Inc. has acquired the James Gorman Insurance Agency’s personal lines of insurance. The acquisition includes about 300 accounts of personal lines of insurance and 80...
Massachusetts Woman Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Evasion Scheme
Sep 25 2008 // A Dartmouth woman has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for paying more than $40 million in cash wages through the temporary employment agencies she ran with her husband in order to evade millions of dollars...
