Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts Bill Would Shield Military from Predatory Insurers
Dec 15 2008 // A bill on Gov. Deval Patrick’s desk would require the state to toughen regulations on predatory insurers who target members of the military in Massachusetts. The bill would require the state Commissioner of Insurance...
Massachusetts Doctors’ Group Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit
Dec 12 2008 // A Brockton, Massachusetts-area medical group and four doctors being sued by the widow of a man struck and killed by a patient has asked that the suit be dismissed. Compass Medical and the doctors are accused by Kathleen...
Massachusetts Companies Settle with OSHA in Worker’s Death
Dec 9 2008 // Two Massachusetts companies cited for safety violations in the death of a 31-year-old Londonderry, New Hampshire construction worker have reached settlements with the federal government. Robert Augeri died June 3 when a...
Massachusetts Diocese Pays $4.5M for Abuse Claims
Dec 4 2008 // A Catholic diocese in Massachusetts has paid $4.5 million to nearly 60 people who say they were sexually abused by priests as far back as 1948. The agreements announced Tuesday were part of a voluntary arbitration process...
Mass. Court: Professional Liability Policy Excludes Document Theft
Dec 2 2008 // A document management company that allowed a client’s sensitive documents to be taken is not covered by a professional liability policy with an intellectual property exclusion, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial...
Massachusetts Court Says Livery Firm Liable in Fatal Crash
Dec 1 2008 // A livery company and its driver could be held liable in a fatal car accident caused by a drunken passenger after he left the livery van, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court found that...
Welcome to Encryption Nation
Nov 30 2008 // Stop putting passwords on sticky notes, require passwords for desktops and encrypt all backups. For those that haven’t done so already, insurance agents and agencies are going to have to get smart about encryption...
Eastern Insurance Hires Chase and Dunlop
Nov 24 2008 // Natick, Massachusetts-based insurance agency Eastern Insurance Group has appointed David H. Chase Jr. and Craig E. Dunlop as vice presidents in commercial lines sales. Both will be based out of Eastern’s new branch...
Massachusetts AG Wants Hearing on Insurance Company’s Auto Rates
Nov 21 2008 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked the Division of Insurance to initiate an administrative rate proceeding to review the new auto insurance rates of Premier Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Travelers...
Massachusetts Extends Deadline for Businesses to Encrypt Data
Nov 19 2008 // The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has extended by at least four months a deadline for businesses to electronically encrypt digital records of their customers’ personal information. The new regulations – which...
Massachusetts Settles with Big Dig Contractor for $21M
Nov 17 2008 // One of the Big Dig’s largest contractors, Modern Continental Construction Inc., will pay $21 million in damages related to a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse as well as the cost of fixing leaks in the massive highway...
Massachusetts Approves New Rates for Electric Insurance Co.
Nov 12 2008 // Beverly, Massachusetts-based personal lines insurer Electric Insurance Co. said the Massachusetts Department of Insurance has approved its newest rate filing, which will decrease its personal auto insurance rates by an...
Family of Massachusetts Cancer Patient Gets $13.5M
Nov 7 2008 // A lawyer says the family of a 40-year-old woman who died after receiving experimental cancer drugs at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has been awarded $13.5 million in a lawsuit. Robert Higgins, a lawyer for the...
Mass. Drivers Slow to Shop Under New Auto System
Nov 2 2008 // Barely six months into Massachusetts’ new deregulated auto insurance system — one designed to favor consumers who shop around for the best rates — fewer than one in four drivers have actually done so, according...
Mass. Surviving Bumps in the Auto Insurance Road
Nov 2 2008 // Burnes Rules Out Permitting Insurers to Use Credit Scores; Goes Slow on Property Market Issues Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has presided over the biggest shakeup in the Massachusetts’ personal...
Mass. Agents Contribute $1.9B to the State’s Economy
Nov 2 2008 // As employers, taxpayers, consumers and charitable contributors, Massachusetts’ independent insurance agents make a $1.9 billion cumulative contribution to the Bay State’s economy last year, according to a new...
Mass. Reports More Drunk Driving Arrests, Rehabs Under New Law
Oct 31 2008 // State officials say that since Melanie’s Law was enacted, more suspected drunken drivers are being arrested, and more repeat offenders are completing a program to keep them from drinking and driving. Motor Vehicles...
Mass. Insurance Agency President Named to Turnpike Board
Oct 29 2008 // Gov. Deval Patrick swore in the newest member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board this week, but that formality did not stop the new board member, John Jenkins, from weighing in last week and helping postpone the...
Labo Joins Mass. Insurance Agency Rogers & Gray
Oct 29 2008 // Agency President Charles N. Robinson announced the recent addition of Eric Labo to Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency, Inc., as a personal lines sales executive. Prior to joining the agency, Labo was employed by Wells...
Companies to Pay $312K in Mass. Oil Spill
Oct 24 2008 // Three companies allegedly responsible for spilling about 18,000 gallons of fuel oil into the Chelsea River and Mill Creek in Revere in Massachusetts have agreed to pay $312,500 to a restoration fund. The oil was released...
