Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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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...
Mass. auto report offers map to move state to limited price competition
Apr 9 2007 // Also, advises against assigned risk pool change at this time and against erasing subsidies or allowing credit scoring A special auto insurance study group appointed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has recommended...
Summary of Mass. auto insurance recommendations
Apr 9 2007 // In its report, Gov. Patrick’s auto insurance study group set forth these key recommendations: 1. The insurance commissioner should examine alternatives to move towards competitive rating using flex-bands, while...
Mass. extends deadline for residents to buy health coverage
Apr 9 2007 // The board that oversees Massachusetts’ landmark health insurance law voted last month to delay key elements of the plan by a year and a half to give residents and businesses a chance to ramp up their health care...
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Apr 9 2007 // Mass. auto report offers map to move state to limited price competition Also, advises against assigned risk pool change at this time and against erasing subsidies or allowing credit scoring A special auto insurance study...
