Latest Rhode Island Headlines
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Circus Returns to Rhode Island Year After Hair-Hanging Fall
Apr 29 2015 // The last time Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performed in Rhode Island, eight acrobats suspended by their hair plummeted to the ground before a crowd of thousands. A single metal clip that held them 20 feet...
Obama Approves Rhode Island Blizzard Disaster Declaration
Apr 6 2015 // Rhode Island officials say President Barack Obama has approved the state’s request for a disaster declaration connected to a blizzard in January that caused an estimated $4.7 million in damage. Officials with the...
Driving-Related Fatalities in Rhode Island Decreased 20% in 2014
Mar 13 2015 // Rhode Island’s attorney general says the number of driving-related fatalities in Rhode Island decreased 20 percent in 2014, to the lowest number in a decade. Attorney General Peter Kilmartin says there were 65...
Rhode Island’s Risco Insurance Brokerage Hires Giuliani as Assistant VP
Feb 26 2015 // Christina Giuliani Risco Insurance Brokerage Inc. has hired Christina Giuliani as assistant vice president and wholesale broker for the New England Territory. She is based in Risco’s East Providence, Rhode Island,...
ACLU Challenges Rhode Island’s Uninsured Motorists Database
Feb 5 2015 // The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island has filed a court challenge to the state Division of Motor Vehicles’ implementation of a database designed to identify uninsured drivers. The ACLU says the database...
AIR Worldwide Reports on This Week’s Northeast Blizzard
Jan 29 2015 // A blizzard in the Northeast this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island in New York, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record...
New Englanders Facing Snowy ‘Big Dig’ After Blizzard
Jan 29 2015 // New Englanders savaged by a blizzard packing knee-high snowfall and hurricane-force winds began digging out Wednesday, grudgingly praising forecasters who got grief from New Yorkers and others spared its full fury. The...
Stateline Insurance Hires Dougherty as Commercial Lines Representative in R.I.
Jan 14 2015 // Kellie Dougherty Stateline Insurance & Financial Services, an independent agency in East Providence, Rhode Island, has hired Kellie Dougherty as commercial lines representative. Dougherty has over 10 years of...
R.I. Begins Issuing 3 Distinct Adjuster Licenses
Jan 12 2015 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Superintendent Joseph Torti III issued a bulletin on Dec. 22 on the Ocean State transitioning to new license categories for adjusters. “Effective Jan. 1, 2015 the Rhode Island Insurance...
Rhode Island to Begin Issuing 3 Distinct Adjuster Licenses
Dec 24 2014 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Superintendent Joseph Torti III issued a bulletin this week on transitioning to new license categories for adjusters. “Effective Jan. 1, 2015 the Rhode Island Insurance Claim Adjuster...
Ringling Bros. Disputes OSHA Citation for Hair-Hanging Accident in R.I.
Dec 19 2014 // Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has contested a citation it received from federal regulators for an accident that sent eight hair-hanging acrobats plummeting to the ground during a live performance, severely...
S&S Insurance Solutions of Florida Acquires Imperial Insurance
Dec 4 2014 // S&S Insurance Solutions of Florida, a division of East Providence, Rhode Island-based Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage, has acquired Imperial Insurance of Naples, Florida. Terms of the transaction were...
Circus Cited for Hair-Hanging Stunt in Rhode Island That Injured 9
Nov 5 2014 // Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus misused a key rigging component in a hair-hanging stunt, causing a fall that seriously injured eight acrobats from the U.S., Brazil, Bulgaria and Ukraine, federal workplace...
Starkweather & Shepley Acquires Universal Insurance Agency in Rhode Island
Nov 3 2014 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. in East Providence, Rhode Island, has acquired Universal Insurance Agency of Smithfield, Rhode Island. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Under the...
Amica CEO DiMuccio Receives NAACP Award in Rhode Island
Oct 27 2014 // Amica Mutual Insurance Co. in Lincoln, Rhode Island, announced that Robert A. DiMuccio, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Amica Mutual, was honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award at the NAACP...
Rhode Island’s OceanPoint Insurance Hires Porter as Director of Sales
Oct 20 2014 // Christine Porter OceanPoint Insurance Agency Inc. in Middletown, Rhode Island, has hired Christine Porter as director of sales. Porter will oversee the sales management of all OceanPoint products, including personal...
Ames & Gough Acquires Bixby Insurance Agency in Rhode Island
Sep 30 2014 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service firms, announced it has acquired the...
Rhode Island’s FM Global Announces Promotions
Sep 16 2014 // FM Global has promoted six executives to new senior management roles, effective Oct. 1, 2014. Bret N. Ahnell, senior vice president, Western division manager, will become an executive vice president. He will oversee...
Rhode Island’s Starkweather & Shepley Announces Promotions
Sep 10 2014 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. in East Providence, Rhode Island, recently announced the following promotions. David B. Soforenko has been promoted to sales manager of Starkweather & Shepley...
R.I. Lowers Assessment Rate for Workers’ Comp Insurers to 6.65%
Aug 25 2014 // The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT) announced last week that it has cut the administrative assessment rate charged to insurance companies providing workers’ comp coverage in Rhode Island. For...
