Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Number of Medical Errors Reported by Mass. Hospitals Spiked in 2013
Aug 15 2014 // The number of medical errors reported by Massachusetts acute-care hospitals has jumped 70 percent since the state expanded the type of incidents hospitals are required to report. Hospitals reported 753 serious medical...
Mass. DOI Providing Claims Assistance to Revere Tornado Victims
Aug 14 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) announced this week its staff will be providing ongoing assistance for Revere residents and business owners who have open claims or other concerns related to the July 28th...
Massachusetts Will Keep State-Based Health Website
Aug 11 2014 // Massachusetts officials overseeing the state’s hobbled health care exchange decided last Friday to stick with new software designed to upgrade the website rather than switching over to the federal government’s...
Feds Offer Low-Interest Loans to Fix Mass. Tornado Damage
Aug 11 2014 // The federal Small Business Administration is offering low-interest loans to Massachusetts residents and businesses to repair property damage from the tornado that hit Revere on July 28. The tornado brought winds of up to...
Mass. OKs Bill Tying Flood Insurance to Mortgage Balance
Aug 4 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on July 23 signed into law legislation that prohibits creditors from requiring residential property owners to buy flood insurance in an amount that exceeds the balance of their mortgage or...
Cleanup Continues After Tornado in Revere, Massachusetts
Jul 30 2014 // Some residents in the coastal city of Revere, Massachusetts, remained out of their damaged homes while others continued cleaning up Tuesday after a rare tornado that struck just north of Boston. Monday’s storm hit...
Tornado Causes Extensive Damage in Coastal City of Revere, Mass.
Jul 29 2014 // A storm system that wreaked havoc across the eastern U.S. spawned a tornado just north of Boston on Monday, causing extensive damage in the coastal city of Revere, where roofs were ripped off buildings and dozens of large...
Mass. Auto Insurance Rates Climb Back Up Despite Deregulation
Jul 29 2014 // Auto insurance rates that fell sharply after deregulation in Massachusetts are climbing again. The Boston Globe reports that five years after Massachusetts began to allow insurers to set their own rates, the average...
Rhode Island Hospital to Pay $150K for Losing Personal Data
Jul 28 2014 // A Rhode Island hospital has agreed to pay $150,000 in Massachusetts after losing backup tapes that contained the personal information of more than 12,000 Massachusetts residents. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha...
A.I.M. Mutual in Massachusetts Names IT Director
Jul 28 2014 // The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Companies (A.I.M. Mutual), a workers’ compensation insurer based in Burlington, Mass., promoted Abi Troy to director of information technology. In this...
Mass. Gov. OKs Bill Tying Required Flood Coverage Amount to Mortgage Balance
Jul 24 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday signed into law legislation that prohibits creditors from requiring residential property owners to buy flood insurance in an amount that exceeds the balance of their mortgage...
Massachusetts Does Well in New Kids Count Report
Jul 23 2014 // Children in Massachusetts are better off than in any other state in the nation, according to a report released Tuesday. Massachusetts was ranked No. 1 in the overall well-being of children as measured in four categories,...
Mass. Motorcycle Owners to Receive $14.6M in Refunds
Jul 21 2014 // Thousands of Massachusetts motorcycle owners will receive a total of $14.6 million in insurance refunds as a result of a settlement with Commerce Insurance Company after allegedly being overcharged on their policies. The...
Mass. Officials Issue Reminders on Kids’ Summertime Safety
Jul 16 2014 // Massachusetts state officials are issuing safety reminders to families as the summer season takes hold. The Department of Children and Families, the Department of Public Health and the Office of the Child Advocate jointly...
Protesters in Massachusetts Call for Hobby Lobby Boycott
Jul 14 2014 // Protesters from southern New England have rallied outside Hobby Lobby Inc. store in Seekonk, Massachusetts, to protest a U.S. Supreme Court decision that organizers say reduces access to reproductive health services and...
Massachusetts Reports Progress in Repairing Health Insurance Website
Jul 11 2014 // Massachusetts state officials are offering an upbeat assessment of efforts to repair the state’s hobbled health insurance website. Maydad Cohen, special assistant to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, told the...
Mass. Motorcycle Owners to Receive $14.6M in Refunds From Commerce
Jul 8 2014 // Thousands of Massachusetts motorcycle owners will receive a total of $14.6 million in insurance refunds as a result of a settlement with Commerce Insurance Company after allegedly being overcharged on their policies. The...
Official: Massachusetts Life Returns to Normal After Hurricane Arthur
Jul 6 2014 // Massachusetts state emergency officials say life is returning to normal after Hurricane Arthur dumped surprising amounts of rain and unleashed strong winds in parts of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Emergency Management...
New Massachusetts Law Extends Protections to Domestic Workers
Jul 3 2014 // People who hire nannies, caregivers and other domestic workers in Massachusetts must now adhere to established labor standards and other worker protections. The bill signed into law by Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday...
Mass. Bill Would Add Liability Coverage to FAIR Plan’s Non-Owner Occupied Dwelling Policy
Jul 1 2014 // The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) is pushing a bill, S-465, that would require the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA), also known as the Massachusetts FAIR Plan, to...
