Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Shaw Joins PMC Insurance in Mass.
Sep 21 2006 // Andrew Shaw has joined PMC Insurance Group, based in Needham Mass., as vice president. His responsibilities include new business development, agency relationship management and product expansion. Before joining PMC, Shaw...
N.J.’s National Atlantic, Commerce Group of Mass. in Talks
Sep 19 2006 // New Jersey property casualty insurer National Atlantic Holdings Company has confirmed that it is engaged in preliminary discussions regarding potential transactions with The Commerce Group, Inc. of Webster, Mass. The...
Mass. Housing Authority Corruption Defendant Pleads Guilty
Sep 15 2006 // Another member of the Asselin family has pleaded guilty in connection with a corruption probe into the Springfield Housing Authority in a deal that requires him to testify against a co-defendant, lets him keep his home and...
Family of Fair Accident Victim in Mass. Files Wrongful Death Suit
Sep 15 2006 // The family of a Shrewsbury, Mass., man who died after being thrown from a carnival ride at a church fair nearly two years ago has filed a wrongful death suit against the company that owned the ride, its president, and...
Progressive to Enter Mass. Auto Market– Commercial Lines
Sep 11 2006 // Massachusetts is about to get a new auto carrier—for commercial, not personal, lines. Progressive Insurance is awaiting approval of rate and form filings from the Massachusetts Division of Insurance in preparation for...
Mass. AG Reilly Opposes FAIR Plan’s 12% Rate Hike
Sep 10 2006 // Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly has decided to appeal Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler’s order allowing the state’s insurer of last resort — the FAIR Plan — to raise home insurance premiums...
Mass. Board Sets Lower Income Residents’ Health Insurance Fee
Sep 5 2006 // Lower income single adults will pay between $18 and $106 a month for health care under a plan approved by the board drafting regulations for the state’s new health care law. The Commonwealth Health Insurance...
Candidates for Ohio Governor Push Health Care Reforms
Sep 5 2006 // The two major candidates for governor want to embark Ohio on experiments that would expand health care coverage for the uninsured, including enrolling the poor in low-cost group purchasing plans. With an estimated 46.6...
The Mass. liquor JUA serves up misleading market information
Sep 4 2006 // As a managing general agent for liquor liability insurance for over 20 years, I took great interest in a recent article in Insurance Journal titled, “Raising the bar on liquor liability training.” (See...
Mass. weighs health insurance minimum payments
Sep 4 2006 // Massachusetts officials are grappling to come up with how much lower-income residents should have to pay for insurance under the state’s landmark health care reform law that requires citizens to procure...
Mass. agents cautious on assigned risk plan
Sep 4 2006 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has been given the green light by the state’s high court to proceed with installing an auto insurance assigned risk plan and she appears intent on doing so. On...
People and Places
Sep 4 2006 // American International Group Inc. named Nicholas J. Ashooh as senior vice president of communications. Ashooh succeeds John T. Wooster Jr. who had filled that role on a temporary basis since year-end 2005, and earlier had...
The Mass. liquor JUA serves up misleading market information
Sep 4 2006 // As a managing general agent for liquor liability insurance for over 20 years, I took great interest in a recent article in Insurance Journal entitled, “Raising the bar on liquor liability training.” (See...
Survey Says: Mass. Uninsured Population Down 19%
Aug 29 2006 // The number of Massachusetts residents without health insurance dropped 19 percent in the past two years, according to a survey released this week by the state’s Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. The survey,...
Commerce Insurance Says Mass. Doesn’t Need Assigned Risk Plan
Aug 24 2006 // The state’s largest auto insurer and the lead plaintiff in the fight against Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler’s effort to install an auto insurance assigned risk plan is hoping that Bowler...
Travelers’ Premier Offers Concierge Auto Claims Service in Mass.
Aug 23 2006 // The Premier Insurance Company of Massachusetts, a Travelers personal lines company, has opened a Concierge Claim center in Woburn, Mass. The center is designed to assist claimants with the car insurance claims process,...
Mass. Supreme Court Upholds Auto Assigned Risk Plan
Aug 23 2006 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has unanimously ruled that the state insurance commissioner has the authority to create an assigned risk plan to replace the existing reinsurance plan for insuring high-risk...
Commerce Insurance Group Reorganizes at Top
Aug 23 2006 // The board of directors of The Commerce Group, Inc. has created two new positions to lead the company’s property and casualty insurance operations within and beyond Massachusetts. “As Commerce continues to grow...
Mass. Regulator Looks Ahead After Court Ruling Clears Way for Assigned Risk Plan
Aug 23 2006 // “We’re one step closer to operating like a normal market.” That’s how Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler greeted the news that the state Supreme Judicial Court had upheld her...
It Figures
Aug 21 2006 // 86% The percent of Virginians opposed to increasing fees on car insurance to help pay for transportation improvements. The Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. survey also found that 10 percent supported insurance fees...
