Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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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...
Mass. Law Blocks State Pension Fund from Starting Bond Insurer
Apr 8 2008 // The Massachusetts state pension fund cannot and should not start a bond insurer, executive director Michael Travaglini said Monday. Travaglini, who oversees the $52 billion Pension Reserves Investment Management Board,...
Declarations
Apr 7 2008 // Dr. Dangerous “(She is an) immediate and serious threat to public health.” —The Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachusetts, commenting on the case of Winchester Hospital obstetrician Suzanne...
Agents in the East Find Recession Hurts Others More Than Them
Apr 7 2008 // How agents from Mass. to Virginia are faring as the economy slows, competition quickens and government changes the rules Agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states are worried about how they and their customers...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Writers Seek 2.3% Rate Boost
Apr 7 2008 // The Workers Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau, which represents insurers, submitted its filing on Feb. 29. The bureau has requested a Sept. 1, 2008 effective date for new rates. A hearing was held April 3. The...
Mass. AG Says State Auto Insurance Web Site Misleads Consumers
Apr 3 2008 // A state Web site intended to educate consumers about Massachusetts’ newly deregulated auto insurance market instead gives them inaccurate rate comparisons, Attorney General Martha Coakley said Tuesday on the day the...
Deaths, Citations Down 1 Year After Mass. Strengthened Teen Driving Law
Apr 2 2008 // Teen deaths and speeding citations each fell by about a third during the first year Massachusetts had tougher penalties for violating its Junior Operator License Law, state officials said. The number of 16- and 17-year-old...
No April Fool’s Prank: Mass. Drivers Really Can Shop Around Starting Today
Apr 1 2008 // Today — April Fool’s Day — is the day when competitive rating in the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market becomes real. No kidding. For the first time in more than three decades, the state is...
Former Mass. Sen. Jacques Approved as Mass. Workers’ Comp Judge
Mar 28 2008 // A former state senator has been confirmed to be a judge at the Department of Industrial Accidents, despite questions about her qualifications and concern about a political account she plans to maintain on the bench. The...
Insurer Cautions Mass. Drivers about Consumer Web Sites
Mar 26 2008 // Less than a week before historic auto insurance reform takes effect in Massachusetts, one of the insurers is urging Bay State auto insurance policyholders to use caution when using consumer web sites, saying many sites...
Renaissance Alliance Adds 1 Conn., 5 Mass. Insurance Agencies to Group
Mar 26 2008 // The Wellesley, Mass.-based insurance organization Renaissance Alliance reports it has added six independent agencies representing $36 million in additional premium to its group. The new member agencies include five in...
Mass. Construction Worker Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Mar 25 2008 // A Brockton, Mass. man was arraigned on charges he collected over $9,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while he worked at two different jobs, according to the attorney general’s office. Officials said John...
