Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Massachusetts Top Court Rules Against Exxon in Climate Change Probe
Apr 13 2018 // Massachusetts’ top court on Friday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s bid to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of...
Fire Destroys Multi-Million Dollar Massachusetts Home
Apr 12 2018 // A massive fire has destroyed a multi-million dollar waterfront home in Massachusetts owned in part by a famous restaurateur. The Gloucester home that burned late Saturday into Sunday morning was bought for $4.6 million in...
Massachusetts Auto Auction Where Five Died Assessed $200K in Penalties
Apr 11 2018 // Federal workplace safety regulators say a Massachusetts auto auction where five people died when a vehicle careened into a crowd last May has agreed to pay $200,000 in penalties. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Massachusetts Can Sue Equifax Over Data Breach, Judge Rules
Apr 5 2018 // Massachusetts can move forward with a lawsuit accusing credit reporting firm Equifax Inc. of failing to safeguard its databases or provide prompt notice of a breach that exposed the personal data of 147 million people, a...
Worker Dies in Massachusetts Furnace Equipment Supplier Explosion
Mar 26 2018 // An explosion at a Massachusetts manufacturing facility has killed one worker and injured another. Officials say the man was an employee at Advanced Vacuum Systems in Ayer, about 40 miles northwest of Boston. The Middlesex...
Walgreens Agrees to $5.5M Settlement with Massachusetts
Mar 23 2018 // Pharmacy chain Walgreens Co. has agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations that it overcharged for prescriptions covered by the Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurance system. State Attorney General...
Massachusetts’ The Arbella Insurance Group Promotes Ramirez
Mar 20 2018 // The Arbella Insurance Group, a regional property and casualty insurance company headquartered in Quincy, Mass., has appointed Lynellen Ramirez to chief actuary and senior vice president of research analytics. In this...
Massachusetts Court: Merck Can Be Sued Over Generic Drug Injury
Mar 19 2018 // Massachusetts’ top court on Friday opened the door for consumers to sue Merck & Co Inc and other makers of brand-name drugs over injuries blamed not on their own medications but on generic versions of their...
Massachusetts’ The Norfolk and Dedham Group Appoints Pepin COO
Mar 16 2018 // The Norfolk and Dedham Group (N&D), based in Dedham, Mass., has appointed Victor Pepin to its senior leadership team as chief operating officer. In this newly created role, he will provide executive oversight of its...
Slow Recovery from Latest Nor’easter, Third Storm Could Be on Tap
Mar 12 2018 // The sun came out across much of the Northeast on Friday as utilities tackled the arduous task of restoring power to hundreds of thousands of customers who lost electricity during the storm that hit the region this week,...
Salem Five Acquires Massachusetts’ Cape Ann Insurance
Mar 9 2018 // Salem Five has acquired Cape Ann Insurance, headquartered in Gloucester, Mass. The acquisition will help Salem Five better serve the insurance needs of its customers in the region, according to Salem Five President and CEO...
Northeast Digging Out from Deep Snow as Power Outages Continue
Mar 9 2018 // The Northeast is digging out from its second powerful nor’easter in less than a week that left behind some areas with more than 2 feet of snow, hundreds of thousands without power, school closures and travel...
Hub Acquires Assets of Massachusetts’ Leitao Insurance Agency
Mar 8 2018 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Leitao Insurance Agency Inc. (Leitao). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Located in Ludlow, Mass., Leitao is a multi-line...
Hub International Limited Acquires Massachusetts’ Rubino Enterprises
Mar 6 2018 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets from Rubino Enterprises Inc. (formerly known as TYG Insurance Agency Inc.). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in...
Power Slowly Coming Back Three Days After Nor’easter
Mar 6 2018 // Power is slowly being restored in the hardest hit areas of the East Coast, days after a destructive nor’easter downed trees and power lines, flooded coastal towns and forced a number of school districts to cancel...
Nor’easter May Break Records, Threatens Billions in Real Estate
Mar 2 2018 // A potentially record-breaking nor’easter is set to pummel the U.S. East Coast with wind, snow and rain Friday, putting billions of dollars of coastal real estate at risk from “unprecedented...
Massachusetts Tax Data Breach Twice as Large as Originally Thought
Mar 1 2018 // Officials with Massachusetts’ tax collection agency say a data breach that exposed private information from about 39,000 business taxpayers was twice as large as originally thought. The Massachusetts Department of...
Officials Say Massachusetts Trolley Driver Paid Man $2K to Attack Him on Job
Feb 27 2018 // Authorities say a Massachusetts trolley driver paid a man $2,000 to attack him while wearing a Halloween mask so the driver could fraudulently collect workers’ compensation and disability insurance. A Suffolk County...
Massachusetts Launches Online Portal for Data Breach Reports
Feb 8 2018 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has unveiled a new online portal to let businesses and organizations report data breaches. The Democrat said the online portal should make it easier to alert her office to the...
Repairs After Massachusetts Library Flooding Estimated to Cost $300K
Feb 8 2018 // Officials estimate it will cost about $300,000 to repair a Massachusetts library after a burst pipe dumped thousands of gallons of water into the building. The Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, Mass., remains closed...
