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Massachusetts Workers Comp Claims Costs Grew Rapidly, Study Finds
Mar 13 2008 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Massachusetts were typical among 14 study states, but grew rapidly in four out of five study years, including a nearly 10 percent increase in 2005 claims evaluated in...
Mass. Fire Marshal: Exploded Danvers Plant’s Chemicals Exceeded Limit
Mar 13 2008 // A Danvers, Mass. chemical plant that exploded in November 2006 was storing at least twice the combustible substances it was permitted to keep, according to a report released this week. The facility was licensed by the town...
Mass. Medical Society Pushes for Tort Reforms to Curb Insurance Costs
Mar 12 2008 // Massachusetts medical professionals are calling for reforms to the state’s medical liability system that they say will protect physicians from more lawsuits and help control insurance costs. To support their call,...
Mass. AG Urges State Reject FAIR Plan Home Insurance Hikes
Mar 12 2008 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office has filed its final brief recommending that Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes reject the FAIR Plan’s latest proposed homeowners insurance rate...
Mass. Officials: Drivers Can Opt Out of Current Auto Insurance Policies
Mar 11 2008 // Massachusetts car owners who want to see if they can get a better deal under the state’s new managed competition system may decide to opt out of their existing insurance plans early. State regulators say car owners...
Business Moves
Mar 10 2008 // Progressive, Massachusetts Progressive Insurance said it plans to begin selling personal auto insurance in Massachusetts starting May 1 if state regulators approve the company’s rate filings, which it submitted to...
Massachusetts Health Inspectors Order Indoor Water Park Closed
Mar 7 2008 // Massachusetts health officials have shut down an indoor water park after reports that several children were injured by high levels of chlorine. The CoCo Key Water Resort opened last May at the Sheraton Ferncroft Hotel in...
Mass. Jury Awards $14.5M in Surgery Malpractice Case
Mar 5 2008 // A Bay State jury has awarded $14.5 million to the family of a 30-year-old Chelmsford, Mass. woman who died one day after undergoing thyroid surgery at Brockton Hospital. The lawyer for Shannyn MacPherson’s husband...
Artwork Stolen from Mass. Home in 1976 Resurfaces in R.I. Court
Mar 4 2008 // Three paintings stolen more than 30 years ago are now the subject of a court fight after turning up in the home of a prominent Rhode Islander. The paintings, valued at about $1 million, were taken during a violent home...
Obama-Clinton Politics of Health Mandate Now Playing in Mass.
Mar 3 2008 // Barack Obama is no fan of the individual mandate that has been central to the successful launch of the Massachusetts universal health care law. He likes to cite its foibles as he criticizes his Democratic presidential...
Liberty Mutual to Add 300 Jobs in New Western Mass. Office
Feb 29 2008 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance will open a 300-person office in Springfield, Mass. in the third quarter to handle growth, some of which is expected from the state’s move to a managed competition auto insurance...
Consumer Groups: Mass. Auto System Unfair to Many Good Drivers
Feb 28 2008 // The new managed competition auto insurance system being implemented in Massachusetts rewards many bad drivers and penalizes many good drivers based on certain supposedly-prohibited social factors, according to the latest...
Boston Software’s New SinglePoint Streamlines Mass. Auto Submissions
Feb 28 2008 // Boston Software has introduced SinglePoint, a new data-exchange system that makes it easy for independent agents to submit Massachusetts auto insurance applications to any carrier under the state’s revised...
Progressive to Sell Mass. Auto Insurance Online Starting in May
Feb 25 2008 // Progressive Insurance said it plans to begin selling personal auto insurance in Massachusetts starting May 1 if state regulators approve the company’s rate filings, which it submitted to the Bay State’s...
New Markets
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Former State Senator Jacques Nominated for Mass. Accident Board
Feb 22 2008 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has nominated former state Sen. Cheryl Jacques to serve as an administrative judge with the Department of Industrial Accidents. The Needham Democrat was the state’s first openly gay...
Mass. Women Sues After Being Blocked from Men’s Golf Tournament
Feb 20 2008 // A Cape Cod, Mass. woman is suing the town of Dennis and its two public golf courses after she wasn’t allowed to play in a men’s tournament with her father. Forty-three-year-old Elaine Joyce is a member of both...
Mass. Web Site Helps Consumers Compare Auto Insurance Prices
Feb 19 2008 // The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has launched a Web site that allows auto insurance customers to compare sample auto premiums – a move that the state says will help consumer find the best deals as managed...
Mass. Health Insurance Law Lowering Emergency Room Visits
Feb 15 2008 // A new report shows that a key goal of the Massachusetts landmark health care law is being met. The law was designed to mandate health care for nearly all Massachusetts citizens, in part by offering subsidized insurance...
Mass. Woman Struck by Transit Bus Awarded $10M in Damages
Feb 14 2008 // A jury in Cambridge, Mass. has awarded $10 million in damages to a 58-year-old Somerville woman who suffered brain damage when she was struck by an MBTA bus. Louise Scialdone was waiting at a bus stop in February 2004 when...
