Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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$20M Verdict Upheld in Massachusetts Pool Slide Lawsuit
Feb 20 2012 // A Massachusetts judge has upheld a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after a Toys `R Us inflatable pool slide partially collapsed. In October, a jury ordered Toys “R Us to pay the...
Massachusetts Cardinal Pushes for Contraception Solution
Feb 20 2012 // Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is continuing to push to resolve a dispute between the Obama administration and the Catholic church about covering contraception in health care plans. In a blog post Friday,...
Debating Affordable Healthcare Act
Feb 20 2012 // Earlier this month, the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., hosted a debate on the federal health care law, the Affordable Healthcare Act, pitting two of the most prominent attorneys general against each other. The...
Mass.-based Enservio Acquires Insurers World
Feb 17 2012 // Enservio, a Needham, Mass.-based provider of property insurance analytics, affinity marketing and claims solutions, is acquiring Insurers World, a provider of inventory transcriptions and evaluation services for claims,...
TD Insurance Announces Promotion in Boston
Feb 15 2012 // TD Insurance, a subsidiary of TD Bank, has promoted David Lofstrom to vice president of U.S. commercial sales and product development. Based in Boston, he will help grow the commercial property/casualty and employee...
Massachusetts Hotel, Workers Settle Class-Action Lawsuit Over Tips
Feb 15 2012 // About 150 current and former employees of a Pittsfield, Mass., hotel as well as hotel management have reached a $1.3 million agreement in a dispute over tips the workers claim they were entitled to but never received. The...
Mass.-based PMC Insurance Appoints New England Territory Manager
Feb 13 2012 // PMC Insurance Group, a national workers’ compensation insurance wholesaler, appointed Kate Alben as New England territory manager. Alben will be responsible for the expansion and growth of the New England territory,...
Mass. AG Coakley Heading to D.C. to Make Case for Health Care Law
Feb 7 2012 // Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts’ own landmark 2006 health care law. On Thursday Coakley will defend...
Mass. AG Calls Proposed Homeowners Premium Hike ‘Illegally Excessive’
Feb 6 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is opposing a recently proposed home insurance rate request for 150,000 consumers, calling it illegally excessive. She made her remarks during her testimony before the...
Six Northeastern States Saw Average Auto Premium Rates Fall, NAIC Says
Feb 6 2012 // Six Northeastern states saw their annual average auto premium fall, according to the latest data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. They are: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,...
Mass. AG Calls Proposed Homeowners Premium Hike ‘Illegally Excessive’
Jan 25 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is opposing a recently proposed home insurance rate request for 150,000 consumers, calling it illegally excessive. Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley. Photo credit: Attorney...
Virginia, New Jersey Get High Marks in Building Code Report
Jan 23 2012 // The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, an industry group, issued a new report this month that analyzes residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the...
Massachusetts AG Sees Foreclosure Deal With Banks Likely
Jan 19 2012 // The Massachusetts attorney general who sued five major banks over allegedly deceptive foreclosure practices says it’s likely some states will settle with the banks. Martha Coakley told the Greater Boston Chamber of...
Mass. AG Coakley Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Back Insurance Mandate
Jan 17 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a key provision in the federal health care law. The high court is expected to hear arguments this year on the...
Progressive Pays $125K Fine in Massachusetts
Jan 9 2012 // The Massachusetts Insurance Division reached $125,000 financial settlement with Progressive Direct Insurance Company last month. According to regulators, Progressive had informed some Massachusetts consumers, through its...
Suit in Mass. Bullying Case Was Settled for $225,000, Documents Show
Dec 29 2011 // A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000, according to documents made public Tuesday. The...
Small Leak Forces Shutdown of Massachusetts Nuclear Power Plant
Dec 29 2011 // The Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth, Mass., has been shut down after what officials said was a small leak of radioactive steam in a safety relief valve. Rob Williams, a spokesman for the plant’s owner,...
Massachusetts Business Owner Pleads Guilty to $28K Insurance Fraud
Dec 29 2011 // A Peabody. Massachusetts, business owner pleaded guilty yesterday and was sentenced in connection with collecting over $28,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for work performed at his auto and glass...
Employers Share Employee Benefits Success Stories at Mass. Conference
Dec 29 2011 // New England Employee Benefits Council (NEEBC) held its annual conference earlier this month, giving its Best Benefits Practices awards to six winners. The winners shared their success stories at the NEEBC conference in...
Some in Massachusetts Eye Tougher Cellphone Restrictions for Motorists
Dec 16 2011 // Supporters of tougher laws against distracted driving said Wednesday they hoped the National Transportation Safety Board’s call for an outright ban on all non-emergency cellphone use by motorists would encourage...
