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Oil Firms Strike Out Again in Fight Against Massachusetts, Rhode Island Climate Suits
May 25 2022 // Exxon Mobil Corp. has lost another round in its fight to stop states from pursuing claims that it has deceived investors and the public regarding its products and climate change. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
Man Who Sued InfoWars’ Jones Among Victims of Massachusetts Fire
May 23 2022 // One of the four people who died in a fire at a Massachusetts apartment building last weekend had filed a defamation lawsuit against right-wing radio host Alex Jones and his InfoWars website in 2018, alleging they falsely...
Investigation Underway Into Massachusetts Apartment Building Fire That Took 4 Lives
May 19 2022 // WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) —The number of people who died in a fire at a Massachusetts apartment building last weekend has climbed to four with the discovery of two more bodies on Monday, fire officials said. The search of...
Day Camp Operator in Massachusetts Blames Benjamin Moore Stain for Fire
May 11 2022 // A company that runs a day camp for kids in Massachusetts is blaming Benjamin Moore for a fire on its property, alleging that the manufacturer’s stain products caused materials to combust. According to the complaint...
Ouch. Massachusetts Worker Shoulders Burden of Injury Omitted From Lump Sum
May 5 2022 // A Massachusetts woman who signed a lump sum settlement with her workers’ compensation carrier over a right shoulder injury cannot later obtain benefits for a left shoulder injury linked to the same incident because...
Massachusetts Settles With 5 Nursing Homes Over Patient Neglect Claims
May 4 2022 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has secured settlements with five Massachusetts nursing homes to resolve allegations of patient neglect, insufficient staff training, and inadequate care for...
Report Blasts Head of Massachusetts Care Center Where 76 Veterans Died From COVID
May 3 2022 // The leader of a veterans’ care center in Massachusetts where 76 veterans died after contracting the coronavirus in the spring of 2020 lacked both the leadership skills and the temperament to run such a facility when...
Cross Insurance Acquires Humphrey, Byfield Agencies in Coastal Massachusetts
Apr 29 2022 // Cross Insurance announced the acquisition of Newburyport, Massachusetts-based Harold Humphrey Insurance Agency, Inc. and its sister agency, Byfield Insurance Agency, Inc., both offering personal and small business...
Massachusetts Man Sues City Alleging Race Factored in Wrongful Arrest
Apr 28 2022 // A Massachusetts man said in a lawsuit filed Monday that he was wrongfully charged with murder based on his race and what his attorneys called fabricated evidence. Dana Gaul, 43, said in the federal suit against the city of...
Massachusetts Approves 3.5% Workers’ Compensation Rate Decrease
Apr 26 2022 // The state’s insurance commissioner has approved an overall average decrease of 3.46% in workers’ compensation rates starting July 1, 2022 for Massachusetts businesses. Massachusetts businesses will save...
Former eBay Executive to Plead Guilty to Cyberstalking Massachusetts Couple
Apr 22 2022 // A former eBay Inc. security executive intends to plead guilty to federal charges that he planned a cyberstalking campaign that targeted a Massachusetts couple whose online newsletter was seen as critical of the e-commerce...
Massachusetts: First State Top Court Gives Industry a Win in Covid-19 Claims Case
Apr 21 2022 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in the first state high court ruling on the question, has sided with an insurer and an insurance agency in finding that the Covid-19 losses claimed by three restaurants were not...
Jury Convicts Massachusetts Agency Owner Quinn of Stealing Disability Benefits
Apr 18 2022 // The owner and operator of an Arlington, Massachusetts-based insurance agency has been convicted by a federal jury in Boston of fraudulently receiving government disability benefits. Patrick Quinn, an ex-Marine who said he...
Massachusetts Firms Owe Treble Damages for Delayed Wages, State’s High Court Says
Apr 5 2022 // Massachusetts law requires that an employer who is late with wage payments to a fired employee must pay three times the late wages and benefits in damages, not just treble interest, the state’s high court has said. A...
People Moves: MacKinnon Joins Union Mutual; Gilbert Agency in Massachusetts Adds Monti
Apr 4 2022 // MacKinnon Joins Union Mutual Vermont’s Union Mutual Insurance Co. has hired George MacKinnon to be as vice president of underwriting. MacKinnon has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, working most...
Judge Invalidates Massachusetts Investment Advisor Rule in Win for Robinhood
Apr 1 2022 // A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dealt state securities regulators a major setback in their enforcement action against online brokerage Robinhood by declaring the state’s new fiduciary duty rule that underlies...
Coterie Insurance Expands Small Business Offerings to Massachusetts
Mar 30 2022 // Coterie Insurance, a small business insurtech, announced that its general liability and business owners insurance products are now available in Massachusetts for customers and agencies. Independent agents and brokers...
In 7-Eleven Case, Massachusetts High Court Rules Franchisees Can Be Employees
Mar 25 2022 // Franchisees in Massachusetts can be considered employees rather than independent contractors and thus be entitled to the state’s minimum wage, overtime rules and other state worker law protections, the state’s...
Massachusetts Dairy Firm Resumes Plant Operations After Cyber Attack
Mar 21 2022 // Most HP Hood LLC plants are back up and running after the dairy company’s network system was the victim of a “cyber security event,” but some school districts are concerned that they will have a milk...
Massachusetts Governor Wants to Expand Mental Health Services, Lower Drug Costs
Mar 18 2022 // Gov. Charlie Baker unveiled a bill Tuesday that he said would help expand access to primary care and mental health services and help control rising health care and prescription drug costs. The Republican detailed the...
