Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Massachusetts Jury Rejects Claim Against Cigarette-Maker
Jun 1 2011 // A Massachusetts jury has found that Phillip Morris Inc. was not responsible for the death of a longtime smoker whose family claimed the company’s cigarettes could have been made safer. The Worcester Superior Court...
Best Affirms Travelers and Subsidiaries Ratings
May 27 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa” of Travelers Group and its property/casualty members, and affiliates,...
Massachusetts AG Urges Rate Reduction for Commercial Auto
May 24 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley claims insurers have overcharged commercial auto customers by $1 billion over the last seven years and has asked the state’s insurance commissioner to slash premiums for...
Massachusetts Court Allows Workers’ Suit Against Contractor
May 24 2011 // A worker who was injured and the estate of another who died at a Massachusetts construction site can sue the contractor who oversaw the job — despite the fact the contractor’s insurer has already paid them...
Three Convicted in Massachusetts Auto Fraud Ring Case
May 17 2011 // A Massachusetts jury has returned guilty verdicts against three men — including a lawyer and a chiropractor — accused of staging several fraudulent motor vehicle accidents, according to the attorney general’s...
Judge Approves $7M Malpractice Settlement for Massachusetts Couple
May 16 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has approved a $7 million settlement for a Shrewsbury family who claimed medical negligence in the birth of their daughter. The lawsuit filed in 2008 lawsuit against two doctors, a nurse practitioner...
Massachusetts Widow Sues Big Dig Contractors Over Husband’s Death
May 13 2011 // The widow of a Salem, Mass. man who died when he was flung into the handrails inside a Big Dig tunnel after his pickup truck crashed has filed a $2 million wrongful death suit against eight companies involved in...
Massachusetts Escalator Inspectors Penalized after Death
May 12 2011 // State officials have begun termination proceedings against two suspended safety inspectors after a 4-year-old boy fell to his death from a store escalator at a mall in central Massachusetts. The Department of Public Safety...
Judge Approves $7M Malpractice Settlement for Massachusetts Couple
May 9 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has approved a $7 million settlement for a Shrewsbury family who claimed medical negligence in the birth of their daughter. The lawsuit filed in 2008 lawsuit against two doctors, a nurse practitioner...
Report Shows Fewer Massachusetts Worker Deaths Last Year
May 3 2011 // A new report finds that fewer workers died on the job in Massachusetts in 2010 than in the previous year. But the report from the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health...
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Rates Not Going Up
Apr 13 2011 // Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise. Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold...
Massachusetts Mom Sues Rhode Island Bakery over Tainted Pastries
Apr 6 2011 // A Massachusetts woman is suing a Rhode Island bakery alleging that its pastries gave her son salmonella. Attorneys for Erin Carrera filed the lawsuit Monday against DeFusco’s Bakery in Johnston. Carrera, of Rehoboth,...
Massachusetts Ex-Prison Worker Gets Probation for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2011 // A former Massachusetts prisons worker has been sentenced to five years of probation for defrauding the state by running long-distance races while collecting worker’s compensation for an on-the-job injury. John...
Agreement Leaves Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates Flat
Mar 21 2011 // The organization that files workers’ comp rates in Massachusetts has agreed to leave premiums flat through next year, following an agreement with the state’s attorney general that blocked a proposed increase of...
Massachusetts Urged to Remove Dangerous Dams
Mar 16 2011 // Lawmakers were told Monday that unsafe, abandoned or obsolete dams are “time bombs” that pose a threat to public safety and wildlife habitats in Massachusetts and need to be repaired or dismantled as quickly as...
ProMutual Reduces Premiums for Massachusetts Dentists
Mar 8 2011 // Boston-based medical professional liability insurer ProMutual Group said it is decreasing premium rates for dentists in Massachusetts by 10 percent. The insurer said analysis by the company revealed lower than anticipated...
Agreement Leaves Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates Flat
Mar 2 2011 // The organization that files workers’ comp rates in Massachusetts has agreed to leave premiums flat through next year, following an agreement with the state’s attorney general that blocked a proposed increase of...
Massachusetts’ Morrill Group Acquires Goldman Ernest & Liner
Feb 18 2011 // Morrill Group, an independent insurance agency based in Norwood, Mass., has acquired Goldman Ernest & Liner Insurance Agency of Needham, Mass. Goldman, Ernest & Liner Insurance Agency Inc. will operate as a...
Brown & Brown Acquires Two Massachusetts Agencies
Feb 17 2011 // Brown & Brown has acquired United Benefit Services and Beverly T. Gottlieb & Associates, two metro-Boston agencies specializing in employee benefits and related insurance products. Terms of the deal were not...
Mood on Main Street: How Recession Changed Insurance Buying Habits
Feb 15 2011 // The recession has taken its toll on contractors, restaurants, retailers, small manufacturers and other Main Street business around the country and most of the survivors are not going to soon forget the pain of the past few...
