Latest Vermont Headlines
All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vermont Diocese Struggles With Legal Costs After Bankruptcy, Abuse Settlements
Oct 2 2025 // A year after seeking to reorganize its depleting finances in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese is struggling to cover about $1.5 million and counting in related legal bills. Under federal law, an...
Court Reinstates Vermont Christian School to Sports League After Transgender Dispute
Sep 24 2025 // A federal appeals court says a Vermont Christian school can participate in the state’s sports league, overturning a previous ruling that upheld a ban on the school after it forfeited a high school girls basketball...
Judge: Vermont’s Delaying Access to Civil Cases Violates 1st Amendment
Sep 19 2025 // A federal judge has granted an injunction against the Vermont judiciary in a legal action brought by news outlets aimed at curbing delays when seeking newly filed civil lawsuits. The ruling issued this month by Judge...
State Police Shortage Stalls Vermont Program to Protect Highway Workers
Sep 12 2025 // Kellen Cloud’s line of work has always been dangerous. For the better part of the past two decades, Cloud has worked at Green Mountain Flagging, a company that stations traffic controllers at construction sites...
New Vermont Law Halts Public Funds for Religious Schools. Is Litigation Ahead?
Aug 29 2025 // Since 2021, religious schools in Vermont have been receiving an increasing amount of money through Vermont’s school tuitioning program. But Act 73, Vermont’s wide-ranging education reform law signed into law in...
Vermont Seeks Federal Disaster Declaration for July Rainstorm Damage
Aug 29 2025 // Vermont Governor Phil Scott has submitted a formal request to President Donald J. Trump for a major disaster declaration to help communities in Caledonia and Essex counties recover costs for repairing public infrastructure...
Former AIG Exec McElroy Faces Sexual Assault Charges in Vermont
Jul 18 2025 // American International Group (AIG) on July 16 made a splash with the announcement that it had hired former Lloyd’s CEO John Neal to be the new leader of General Insurance, the company’s property/casualty...
Flash Floods Once Again Hit Vermont, Damaging Homes and Roads
Jul 14 2025 // Communities in rural parts of Vermont on Friday woke up once again to damaged homes and washed-out roads due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, making it the third consecutive summer that severe floods have inundated...
AM Best Downgrades Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Members in California, Vermont
Jun 16 2025 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICRs) to “a-” (Excellent) from “a+” (Excellent) of...
Vermont Takes Over Medical Liability Insurer CARE RRG Facing $35.4M Judgment
Apr 28 2025 // A Vermont Superior Court has approved a state takeover and rehabilitation plan for a medical professional liability insurer for 1,300 physicians that the state says is in hazardous financial condition as a result of a...
People Moves: Vermont Mutual’s Clark Named Io International Group Post
Apr 23 2025 // Paula Clark Vermont Mutual Senior Executive Assistant Paula Clark was recently named regional vice president of the International Association of Insurance Professionals (IAIP), announced at the Region I 2025 Conference...
People Moves: Samsom Named Commissioner of Vermont Financial Regulation
Apr 17 2025 // Vermont Governor Phil Scott recently announced several leadership appointments including Kaj Samsom as commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR). Prior to his appointment, Samsom served as chief auditor...
AM Best Downgrades Vermont Mutual to ‘A’ Rating; Cites Improvements in 2024 Results
Mar 5 2025 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A+ (Superior) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a+” (Excellent) from “aa-” (Superior) of Vermont Mutual Insurance...
People Moves: Bigglestone Named Acting Commissioner in Vermont; Protecdiv Welcomes Skowronski; DellaTorre Joins Alliant
Jan 16 2025 // Bigglestone Appointed Acting Commissioner of Vermont Department of Financial Regulation Sandy Bigglestone Vermont Governor Phil Scott named Sandy Bigglestone as acting commissioner of the state’s Department of...
Vermont Added 41 Captives in 2024
Jan 15 2025 // Vermont continues to grow its captive insurance industry. The Vermont Department of Economic Development (DED) has reported that 2024 was among Vermont’s top 10 highest years of growth since it enacted its...
People Moves: Vermont Mutual Names McDonnell CEO; Carangelo Joins DeCotis
Jan 14 2025 // Vermont Mutual, headquartered in Montpelier, Vermont, named company president Mark J. McDonnell as chief executive officer. McDonnell first joined Vermont Mutual as senior vice president in 2014. He was named executive...
Vermont School District Settles With US Over Racial Harassment Allegations
Jan 13 2025 // A Vermont school district’s inadequate response to serious and widespread harassment of Black and biracial students has led to a settlement agreement with the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department said...
US Chamber, Oil Firms Sue Vermont for Making Companies Pay for Climate Damage
Jan 6 2025 // The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several decades by climate change. The...
How Vermont Community Helped One Family Recover After Floods Took Everything
Dec 5 2024 // The last thing John and Jenny Mackenzie saw as they fled their Vermont home with their daughters, dog and two guinea pigs last summer was their cars upended and propelled away by rushing flood waters. Minutes earlier they...
Police Cruiser Strikes and Kills Bicyclist Pulling Trailer in Vermont
Nov 14 2024 // A bicyclist pulling a trailer in Vermont died after he was struck by a police cruiser, state police said. The crash happened just before 3 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 7 in South Burlington. The officer, a sergeant with the...
