Latest Rhode Island Headlines
All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Rhode Island Judge Asked to OK Club Fire Settlement Plan
Feb 10 2009 // Lawyers for the survivors and relatives of the 100 people killed in a nightclub fire almost six years ago asked a judge Friday to approve a formula to distribute proceeds from a $176 million settlement. The lawyers said in...
Rhode Island Town Wants Help Paying Nightclub Fire Agreement
Feb 3 2009 // The Rhode Island town where a nightclub fire killed 100 people in 2003 says it needs help from the state to pay a $10 million settlement to survivors of the blaze and relatives of those who died. West Warwick plans to ask...
Rhode Island Judge: Lead Paint Companies Owed Restitution
Jan 28 2009 // The state of Rhode Island must reimburse more than $242,000 to three companies that succeeded in overturning a jury verdict that could have forced them to spend billions of dollars cleaning up homes contaminated by lead...
Proposal for Splitting Money in Rhode Island Club Fire Case
Jan 12 2009 // A law school professor has submitted a plan for distributing $176 million in settlement money among the more than 300 people who sued after a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people. The proposal from Francis...
Ex-Beacon Mutual VP Faces New Rhode Island Indictment
Dec 22 2008 // A former vice president at Rhode Island’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer, who was indicted two years ago for conspiracy and insurance fraud, is facing a new indictment. David R. Clark, the former vice...
Rhode Island Top Court to Hear Arguments in Club Fire Case
Dec 8 2008 // Rhode Island’s highest court is hearing arguments on whether to release jury questionnaires in the case of Station nightclub co-owner Michael Derderian, who was charged after a 2003 fire that killed 100 people. The...
Rhode Island Senate Proposes Crack Down on Drunken Driving
Dec 4 2008 // A Rhode Island state senator says he will introduce three bills in response to a federal report that said the Ocean State is not doing enough to crack down on drunken driving. The National Transportation Safety Board...
Feds: Rhode Island Not Doing Enough to Fight Drunk Driving
Dec 2 2008 // Federal transportation officials say Rhode Island’s efforts to curb drunken driving are falling short. The National Transportation Safety Board this week said that the Ocean State is one of bottom three states in the...
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...
Ex-Rhode Island DMV Clerk Guilty of Making Fake Drivers Licenses
Nov 14 2008 // A former clerk at the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles has been convicted of making fake drivers’ licenses that were sold to illegal immigrants and criminals. A federal jury deliberated for about 90 minutes on...
Former Rhode Island DMV Clerk on Trial for Creating Fake Licenses
Nov 7 2008 // A former clerk for the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles is on trial for creating phony driver’s licenses in exchange for cash. The trial for Dolores Rodriguez LaFlamme began Wednesday in U.S. District Court....
Rhode Island Agency Recognized by National Trade Group
Nov 6 2008 // Hunter Insurance Inc., an independent agency in Lincoln, Rhode Island, has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. Trusted Choice is a branding effort...
Rhode Island Agents’ Trade Group Elects Loiselle-Mongeon as President
Oct 27 2008 // Melanie Loiselle-Mongeon has been named president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Rhode Island. Loiselle-Mongeon, who is vice president of Loiselle Insurance Agency of Pawtucket, becomes the youngest elected...
Rhode Island Senator Reed Reaps Campaign Cash from Insurance Sector
Oct 14 2008 // Nearly a quarter of all contributions to Sen. Jack Reed’s re-election campaign have been coming from donors in the banking, securities, real estate and insurance sectors. According to independent watchdog groups, the...
Rhode Island Hospital Cited for Wrong-Knee Surgery
Oct 13 2008 // The Rhode Island Health Department has found that a surgical team that operated on the wrong knee of a patient at The Miriam Hospital failed to visually verify which knee needed the procedure. The mistake occurred Sept. 19...
Very Drunk Rhode Island Driver Pleads No Contest
Oct 6 2008 // The Rhode Island man who state police said had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit when he was arrested in July has pleaded no contest to drunken driving. As part of a plea deal, Stanley Kobierowski...
Crane Falls on Rhode Island School under Construction
Oct 2 2008 // A crane that fell on a school under construction in Woonsocket, Rhode Island has damaged the building, but caused no injuries. An operator was warming up the crane Monday morning when its boom fell forward onto exposed...
R.I.-Based Commercial Insurer FM Global Revamps Top Management
Oct 2 2008 // FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, has made numerous promotions and reassignments within its senior management team that are to become effective Jan. 1, 2009. Brian J. Hurley,...
Rhode Island Marks 70th Anniversary of Its Most Destructive Storm
Sep 21 2008 // Downtown Providence was flooded and neighborhoods were destroyed. A group of school children who drowned after their bus was swept off the road were among the hundreds killed. It’s been 70 years since a catastrophic...
Tufts Health Plan to Enter Rhode Island Market
Sep 21 2008 // Tufts Health Plan will start insuring Rhode Island residents next year and compete against three existing insurers. Tufts President and CEO James Roosevelt Jr. said the Watertown, Mass.-based firm has been looking for...
