Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Denies Hike in FAIR Plan Home Insurance Rates
May 8 2008 // Massachusetts insurance officials have blocked a 13.2 percent statewide rate hike by the state’s residual market home insurer. The decision by Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes also kills a 25 percent increase...
Mass. Agents Take Aim at Progressive Online; Insurer Defends Site
May 6 2008 // Independent agents in Massachusetts have charged that Progressive Insurance, which began selling auto insurance online in the state May 1, is skirting state regulations and misleading consumers with its Web site quoting...
High Risk Pass for New Mass. Auto Insurers Irks Established Players
May 5 2008 // Massachusetts auto insurers have been operating under a new managed competition auto insurance system for only a month now but a battle is well underway over how to treat newcomers to the state. The Patrick administration...
Established Mass. Auto Insurers Decry ‘Free Ride’ For Incoming Players
May 5 2008 // Existing carriers complain that plan to give 3-year high risk exemption to newcomers creates uneven playing field The Patrick administration is pushing a rule that exempts new auto insurers in Massachusetts from having to...
Travelers Personal Lines Consolidation Hits N.J., Mass., N.Y.
May 5 2008 // Travelers Insurance is consolidating some of its personal lines business center activities across the country, a plan that will mean fewer jobs in Massachusetts and New Jersey but more in upstate New York. Travelers...
Mass. Cuts Workers’ Comp Rates By 1%
May 5 2008 // The Patrick Administration announced an agreement in the 2008 workers’ compensation rate-setting proceeding that will save Massachusetts businesses $11 million. The new rates average to a 1 percent reduction per...
Progressive Begins Selling Mass. Auto Online; Casco Looks to Enter
May 1 2008 // Progressive Insurance begins selling personal auto insurance online in Massachusetts today. Meanwhile, Casco Indemnity, which writes auto insurance in the other New England states on behalf of several mutual fire insurers,...
Agents in the East Find Recession Hurts Others More
Apr 22 2008 // Insurance agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic are worried about how their customers and they will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow. “An agent’s business is a direct reflection of...
Mass. Law Limiting Liability for Brownfields Transforms Landscape
Apr 22 2008 // Growing up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Henry Wainer remembers driving past the old Alden Corrugated Container Co. on trips out of the city. Then one day, the single-story cardboard box factory burned. The city bulldozed...
Due to Dry Weather, Mass. Cities Asked to Stop Issuing Burning Permits
Apr 22 2008 // The sunny spring days may be a relief after this winter’s snows, but dry weather is also creating fire hazards across Massachusetts. On Saturday, 189 woodland brush fires burned more than 375 acres, sometimes...
Mass. Agents Balk Over 6-Month Auto Policies
Apr 21 2008 // Massachusetts will permit auto insurers to sell six-month policies in another change under the state’s newly operational managed competition system that gives insurers more freedom. Independent agents have balked at...
No Mass. Workers’ Comp For Sleepy Big Dig Employee Hurt Driving Home
Apr 21 2008 // A construction worker on Boston’s “Big Dig” highway project is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he suffered after he fell asleep while driving home late from work, the...
Mass. Auto Web Site Misleads Consumers, Say Agents and AG
Apr 21 2008 // A state Web site intended to educate consumers about Massachusetts’ newly deregulated auto insurance market instead gives them inaccurate rate comparisons, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley. Coakley argued...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Rates Cut 1%
Apr 17 2008 // The Patrick Administration announced an agreement in the 2008 workers’ compensation rate setting proceeding that will save Massachusetts businesses $11 million. The new rates average to a 1.0 percent reduction per...
Massachusetts Gets $13M from $676M Unum Settlement
Apr 16 2008 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance, one of three lead state regulators in a multi-state examination of the Unum Group’s handling of disability claims, said the country’s leading writer of disability...
Travelers Personal Lines Consolidation Affects N.J., Mass., N.Y.
Apr 15 2008 // Travelers Insurance is consolidating some of its personal lines business center activities across the country, a plan that will mean fewer jobs in Massachusetts and New Jersey but more in upstate New York. Travelers...
Agents Balk as Mass. Permits 6-Month Auto Insurance Policies
Apr 10 2008 // Massachusetts will permit auto insurers to sell six-month policies in another change under the state’s newly operational managed competition system that gives insurers more freedom and drivers more...
7 Accused in Mass. Auto Insurance Accident Staging Conspiracy
Apr 9 2008 // Seven people have been indicted in Essex County (Massachusetts) for allegedly conspiring to stage automobile accidents to collect insurance payments. A grand jury returned the indictments last Friday against two attorneys,...
Sleepy Employee Hurt Driving Home Denied Mass. Workers’ Comp
Apr 9 2008 // A construction worker on Boston’s “Big Dig” highway project is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he suffered after he fell asleep while driving home late from work, the...
McClure Joins Amity Insurance in Mass.
Apr 9 2008 // Scott McClure has joined Amity Insurance Agency, Inc. in Quincy, Mass. as a commercial property and liability consultant. In this role, McClure will develop new business focusing on commercial property, including...
