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Climate Change: Directors’ and officers’ risk ahead?
Jun 4 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Mass. Debates Overhauling Fire Code to Address Chemical Risks
May 30 2007 // State lawmakers are considering an overhaul of Massachusetts’ fire code after the explosion at a chemical plant in Danvers damaged hundreds of nearby homes. The bill, filed by state Rep. Theodore Speliotis,...
Mass. Health Plan May Be Inadquate for Young Adults, Study Says
May 30 2007 // Massachusetts’ new low-cost health insurance coverage for young adults doesn’t work for the seriously ill, a long-standing problem with a similar program for college students, according to a new study. The...
Best Upgrades A.I.M. Mutual Companies to ‘A’; Outlook Stable
May 29 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength ratings (FSR) to “A” (Excellent) from “A-” (Excellent) and revised the outlook to stable from positive for A.I.M. Mutual Insurance Companies and its...
Red Sox Go to Bat for New Mass. Health Insurance Requirement
May 23 2007 // Going without health insurance is no day at the ballpark. That’s the message from the Boston Red Sox and the state panel overseeing Massachusetts’ landmark health care insurance law. The two are teaming up to...
Bringing competition and choice to Mass. auto
May 21 2007 // The 400 insurers of the American Insurance Association have seen the favorable results for the public as well as insurers when states have worked to increase competition and relax unproductive regulatory restraints. Recent...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Rates Going Down Again, This Time by 16.9%
May 16 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurers and the state regulator have agreed upon a 16.9 percent average decrease in workers’ compensation rates in Massachusetts starting Sept. 1, 2007. The industry’s...
Mass. Municipalities Pressured by Escalating Health Care Costs
May 15 2007 // Spending on health care is soaring for local communities in Massachusetts. Since 2001, health care spending has nearly doubled, squeezing budgets and forcing cities and town to cut back in other areas, from public safety...
Inspections to Target Small Firms in Mass. Handling Dangerous Materials
May 9 2007 // State inspectors in Massachusetts will target small companies handling dangerous materials in residential areas to try to prevent a repeat of a Danvers explosion that was blamed on a build up of chemical vapor. The state...
Mass. ruling revives possibility of auto assigned risk plan
May 7 2007 // Whether Massachusetts will implement an assigned risk plan for its private passenger auto market was considered a dead issue when in January the incoming Patrick administration suspended rules to create one, but now the...
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May 7 2007 // Mass. ruling revives possibility of auto assigned risk plan Whether Massachusetts will implement an assigned risk plan for its private passenger auto market was considered a dead issue when in January the incoming Patrick...
10 Mass. ruling revives possibility of auto assigned risk plan
May 7 2007 // Commissioner Burnes surprises industry by keeping issue alive 10 Neighbors seek to drain N.Y. City’s reservoirs to stem flooding But city officials worry about the risk of a summer drought 10 Study questions...
Three in Mass. Plead Guilty in $30 Million Unreported Payroll Scheme
May 3 2007 // Three Quincy, Mass. residents pleaded guilty on Tuesday as their federal trial was to begin on charges they failed to pay required taxes and insurance for hundreds of temporary workers over a decade. Prosecutors said the...
Alleged Key Suspect in Major Mass. Auto Insurance Scam Pleads Not Guilty
May 2 2007 // A former Lawrence resident who allegedly played a key role in auto insurance scams pleaded not guilty this week to charges of insurance fraud and filing a false Registry of Motor Vehicle document, prosecutors said. Luis...
Mass. to Hear FAIR Plan Bid for 13% Statewide, 25% Cape Rate Hike
Apr 26 2007 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has scheduled a public hearing for April 27, to consider a rate increase for the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the FAIR...
Peerless Names Herron Regional V.P. for Northern New England
Apr 24 2007 // Peerless Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, has named Linn Herron, regional vice president, Northern New England Regional Office. In this new capacity, Herron will oversee the regional personal and commercial...
Mass. judge throws book at injury case perjurer
Apr 23 2007 // Worcester (Massachusetts) Superior Court Judge Francis Fecteau has sentenced a Templeton man to two and one-half years for committing perjury in a workers’ compensation claim proceeding at the Department of...
Mass. Ruling Gives New Hope to Advocates of Auto Assigned Risk Plan
Apr 20 2007 // Whether Massachusetts will implement an assigned risk plan for its private passenger auto market was considered a dead issue when in January the incoming Patrick administration suspended rules to create one, but now the...
Educating Public is Next Challenge for Mass. Health Care Experiment
Apr 17 2007 // For the past year, those working on the Massachusetts landmark health care law have labored largely out of the limelight, drafting new regulations and enrolling the state’s poorest citizens in new subsidized health...
Mass. Firm Fights State’s Bill for Explosion; Insurers Look to Recoup
Apr 16 2007 // A Massachusetts ink manufacturer whose plant exploded and damaged dozens of homes has mounted a legal challenge to the state’s authority to bill it $312,000 for the cost of responding to the crisis. Lawyers for CAI...
