Latest Rhode Island Headlines
All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pro Global Files Company Application Under R.I.’s New Run-Off Reg
Jun 15 2016 // Pro Global Insurance Solutions plc announced that it has become the first company to file an application for a new domestic insurer in Rhode Island to facilitate insurance business transfers (IBT) under the August 2015...
NCCI Sees Stable Trends in New England
May 2 2016 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance says it is seeing generally stable trends in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont — five New England states where NCCI serves as a licensed rating...
NCCI Sees Stable Trends in New England
Apr 28 2016 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance says it is seeing generally stable trends in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont — five New England states where NCCI serves as a licensed rating and...
Rhode Island’s Falvey Yacht Insurance Adds 2 to Underwriting Team
Apr 22 2016 // Laura Sherrod Falvey Yacht Insurance, a North Kingstown, Rhode Island-based managing general underwriter specializing in yacht insurance, has hired Laura Sherrod and Craig McGinnes to join the firm’s group of yacht...
Rhode Island Bills Aim to Regulate Uber, Lyft
Apr 18 2016 // Rhode Island could become the latest state to set rules for ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft, but first lawmakers must come to agreement on dueling bills — one favored by Uber and the other by traditional...
R.I. Pub Owner Fights Allegations He Set Fire to His Business
Apr 5 2016 // A Massachusetts man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he set his Rhode Island restaurant on fire to collect the insurance money. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Providence says 50-year-old Daniel Saad, of Spencer,...
Rhode Island Lawmakers Eye Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
Feb 29 2016 // Lawmakers in Rhode Island are making another attempt to grant driving privileges to immigrants who are in the country illegally. Similar legislation stalled last year but state Sen. Frank Ciccone, a Providence Democrat,...
Officials: 45 Died in Rhode Island Vehicle Crashes Last Year
Feb 24 2016 // Rhode Island transportation officials say 45 people died on the state’s roadways last year, a steady decline from previous years. Most victims were in a motor vehicle. Nine were riding bicycles and eight were...
Narragansett Bay to Write P/C Insurance in Connecticut
Feb 8 2016 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC), a Rhode Island-based specialty underwriter of homeowners insurance products and services in states along the Eastern Seaboard, said the company has been approved by the...
Narragansett Bay Approved to Write P/C Insurance in Connecticut
Jan 27 2016 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC), a Rhode Island-based specialty underwriter of homeowners insurance products and services in states along the Eastern Seaboard, announced that the company has been approved by the...
People – East
Jan 25 2016 // The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) announced that longtime President and Chief Executive Officer, Francis A. Mancini, will retire from the association at the end of 2016. MAIA has formed a search...
Dwyer Named Rhode Island’s Superintendent of Banking and Insurance
Jan 12 2016 // The Rhode Island Insurance Division, part of the Department of Business Regulation, announced that the Insurance Division’s Associate Director Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer has been named Rhode Island’s...
Rhode Island Landlord Sentenced in Arson-for-Profit Scheme
Jan 11 2016 // A Providence, Rhode Island, landlord will serve three and a half years in federal prison for starting a fire at a vacant apartment in an otherwise occupied multi-family home in an attempt to collect insurance...
R.I. Gov. Urges Legislature to Help Undocumented Immigrants Get Licenses
Jan 7 2016 // Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has run out of time to carry out an ambitious promise she made on the campaign trail to grant driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally. Raimondo signed a poster-sized...
People – East
Dec 21 2015 // Markel Corp. in Richmond, Virginia, reported that Thomas S. Gayner, president and chief investment officer, and Richard R. Whitt III, president and co-chief operating officer, will serve as co-chief executive officers of...
Brown & Brown Acquires Ocean Marine Insurance Agency & Affiliates in R.I.
Dec 18 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Inc. has acquired certain assets of Ocean Marine Insurance Agency Inc., Ocean Marine Insurance Agency of Massachusetts...
Rhode Island’s Chestnut Hill Acquires Rotatori Insurance
Dec 16 2015 // Chestnut Hill Insurance Group, an independent property/casualty insurance agency in Chepachet, Rhode Island, announced that it has acquired Rotatori Insurance, an independent P/C agency also based in Chepachet. Terms of...
Soucy Insurance Agency Hires Pisaruk as Account Manager in R.I.
Dec 2 2015 // John Pisaruk Soucy Insurance Agency in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has hired John Pisaruk as Commercial Lines account manager. With over 30 years of experience in the commercial insurance industry, Pisaruk specializes in...
R.I. Taxi Companies Agree to Delay Uber Case Until After Session
Nov 23 2015 // Two Rhode Island taxi companies seeking to stop ride-hailing company Uber from operating in Rhode Island have agreed to delay the case until after the legislative session. Orange Cab of Newport and Airport Taxi of Warwick...
R.I. Insurance Superintendent Torti to Leave Post, Join Fairfax Financial
Nov 19 2015 // Rhode Island Superintendent of Banking and Insurance Joseph Torti III will leave his post at the end of the year and join Fairfax Financial as vice president of Regulatory Affairs. Torti was appointed associate director...
