Latest Vermont Headlines
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People Moves: Former Vermont Captive Regulator Bigglestone Joins SRS
Dec 3 2025 // Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS), an independent manager of insurance companies including captives, announced the appointment of Sandy Bigglestone as managing director/chief officer for Governance, Regulatory and...
State Audit Finds Delays and Gaps in Vermont’s Food and Lodging Inspections
Dec 1 2025 // The Office of the State Auditor found significant shortcomings with how the Vermont Department of Health reviews complaints related to food and lodging establishments, according to a recent report. The report is the first...
People Moves: Vermont Captive Insurance Commissioner Bigglestone to Retire
Dec 1 2025 // Sandy Bigglestone Sandy Bigglestone, deputy commissioner of the captive insurance division the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR), is retiring from her position as of Jan. 1, 2026. Bigglestone’s career...
Walgreens to Pay $500,000 for Overcharging at Vermont Checkouts
Nov 18 2025 // Walgreens has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle claims of overcharging at its stores in Vermont — including in one instance where an item rang at the register $23 higher than its shelf price, the state Attorney...
Vermont Christian School Challenges State’s Education Funding as Discriminatory
Nov 10 2025 // The Mid Vermont Christian School is challenging Vermont’s education reform law in federal court, arguing that the law’s set of provisions around public tuition dollars “creates a religious gerrymander and...
Trump Denies Disaster Declarations for Maryland, Vermont and Illinois
Oct 27 2025 // President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe last week, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other...
Vermont Stops Use of ‘Angi Certified Pro’ Marketing Term
Oct 14 2025 // Online platform Angi, formerly known as Angi’s List, has settled with Vermont’s attorney general over concerns about misleading marketing on its online platform, which connects consumers with more than 300...
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...
