Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Mass. Court: Teacher On School Ski Trip Due Workers’ Compensation
Dec 14 2009 // A Massachusetts teacher injured while voluntarily chaperoning students on a ski trip is entitled to workers compensation benefits, the state’s highest court has ruled. On a Peabody High School ski club trip, Karen...
Arbella Insurance in Massachusetts Promotes Jacobs, Hurley
Dec 9 2009 // Arbella Insurance Group, the third-largest auto insurer in Massachusetts, announced two promotions within the senior management team. Steve Jacobs will become vice president of Marketing and Tracy Hurley will assume the...
Mass. Weighs FAIR Plan Property Insurance Rates
Dec 7 2009 // Massachusetts will begin public hearings next week on a request by the state’s property insurer of last resort to raise rates from 1.9 percent to 7 percent. The hearings are set to begin Dec. 15 on the request by the...
Massachusetts Elderly Driver Bill Stalls on Beacon Hill
Nov 23 2009 // A bill that would require Massachusetts drivers age 75 or older to pass cognitive and physical exams every time they renew their licenses has stalled on Beacon Hill. The legislation gained momentum this summer after a...
Feds Report Fewer Workplace Deaths in New England
Nov 23 2009 // New England recorded fewer work-related deaths last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday, a trend that could be at least partly attributable to the economic downturn. Preliminary figures for the...
Mass. General Surgery Training on Probation
Nov 18 2009 // A surgery training program at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital has been placed on probation by a national accrediting organization because some participants were working too much. The Accreditation Council for...
OSHA Fines Massachusetts Firm over Ice Machine Death
Nov 12 2009 // A New Bedford, Massachusetts seafood processing plant faces $66,800 in fines following a probe into the death of a worker who became caught in an industrial ice-making machine. The federal Occupational Safety and Health...
Family Sues over Boy’s Death at Massachusetts Gun Show
Nov 11 2009 // The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun jammed twice before he lost control of the weapon and fired into his head. The family of...
Northeast Learns Lessons from ’08 Ice Storm
Nov 9 2009 // One of the huge pine trees that surrounded Sieglinde Poegel’s home of 42 years crashed through the roof and landed in her living room during the ice storm that crippled much of the Northeast last December. “It...
State: Massachusetts Woman Due $1M in Discrimination Case
Nov 6 2009 // A former employee of a Cape Cod country club who said she was laid off because of her age has been awarded nearly $1 million by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The commission said 64-year-old Virginia...
Family of Massachusetts Woman Who Died on Escalator Sues
Nov 5 2009 // The family of an 82-year-old Boston woman who died on an MBTA escalator claims in a lawsuit that she was strangled when her hair and scarf became stuck in the machine. The allegations in the suit filed in Suffolk Superior...
Ratings Recap: Arbella, Wayne Mutual, Arrowhead, Unique, Oswego County
Nov 4 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to ‘A-‘ (Excellent) from’ B++’ (Good) and issuer credit ratings to “a-” from “bbb+” of Arbella Insurance Group and...
Arbella Gets Ratings Upgrade from A.M. Best
Nov 2 2009 // Massachusetts-based insurer Arbella Insurance Group has received a ratings boost by A.M. Best Co. Best upgraded the insurer’s financial strength rating to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and issuer credit ratings to...
Massachusetts Court Says Smokers’ Lawsuit Can Go Forward
Oct 21 2009 // Cigarette maker Philip Morris USA Inc. might have to pay for chest scans so long-time smokers can get early warning of lung cancer, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously...
Business Moves
Oct 19 2009 // Norfolk & Dedham, Rockingham Two East Coast-based mutual insurance companies have formed a mutual alliance that they say allows them to achieve efficiencies, diversification and spread of risk without actually merging...
Arbella Sponsors License Renewal Notification Program in Massachusetts
Oct 19 2009 // One of Massachusetts largest auto insurers is sponsoring a program that allows the state’s registry to notify drivers when their licenses come up for renewal. Arbella Insurance Group, said it has become the charter...
Arbella Sponsors License Renewal Notification Program in Massachusetts
Oct 8 2009 // One of Massachusetts largest auto insurers is sponsoring a program that allows the state’s registry to notify drivers when their licenses come up for renewal. Arbella Insurance Group, said it has become the charter...
Massachusetts Court Upholds $2M Award to Wal-Mart Pharmacist
Oct 6 2009 // The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld a $2 million jury award to a former pharmacist at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. who claimed she was fired by the retail chain after asking to be paid the same as her male...
Massachusetts Launches Verification Site for Workers’ Comp
Oct 5 2009 // Public Can Now Check Coverage Online In a move designed to combat instances where employers lack coverage, Massachusetts has introduced a new Web site that allows anyone to see if a business has workers’ compensation...
Insurers Pay $700K to Settle Case over Massachusetts Coach’s Fatal Illness
Oct 2 2009 // A nearly $700,000 agreement between the family of late Holy Cross football coach Dan Allen and two insurers for the contractor the family alleges contributed to his fatal illness has been approved by a federal judge in...
