Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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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...
Mass. Firm to Appeal $431M Damages for Stent Patent Infringement
Feb 13 2008 // A jury says Boston Scientific Corp. must pay $431 million in damages in a patent dispute over the medical device maker’s drug-coated stents. The company said that federal jury in Marshall, Texas reached the damages...
Thousands of Mass. Drivers Involved in Multiple Accidents
Feb 11 2008 // Thousands of Massachusetts drivers with histories of multiple crashes continue to get behind the wheel despite law designed to crack down on habitual offenders. A Boston Globe review of state motor vehicle records finds...
Mass. Health Care Law Costing More Than Expected
Feb 6 2008 // Massachusetts is projecting that its landmark law extending health care coverage to nearly all citizens may cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected. The subsidized insurance program that provides...
Commerce Insurance Reports Earnings Decline for 4Q, 2007
Feb 4 2008 // The Commerce Group, Inc. reported 2007 fourth quarter net earnings were $19.6 million, or $0.32 per diluted share, compared to net earnings of $59.4 million or $0.87 per diluted share for 2006. Commerce is in the process...
Arbella, Premier Get Green Light for 2008 Mass. Auto Rates
Feb 4 2008 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has upheld the 2008 auto insurance rate filings of Arbella Mutal, which proposed an overall rate decrease of 7.7 percent, and Premier (Travelers), which filed for an...
Mass. AG Loses Another as Hanover’s Auto Insurance Filing is Cleared
Jan 30 2008 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has lost another skirmish in the battle over regulation of 2008 auto insurance rates. Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has upheld the rate filing of Hanover Insurance,...
10 Tips for Mass. Insurance Agents Moving into Competitive Market
Jan 29 2008 // Massachusetts independent agents are facing a challenge to hang onto their whopping 86 percent market share in personal lines as the state embarks upon a new competitive auto insurance system that will bring some of the...
