Latest Vermont Headlines
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Vermont Fines Continental Indemnity for Workers’ Comp Premium Overcharges
Feb 29 2016 // Vermont Department of Financial Regulation Commissioner Susan L. Donegan announced on Feb. 26 that Continental Indemnity Co., a subsidiary of Applied Underwriters Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway Company, has paid Vermont...
Vermont Republicans Call for Review of State’s Health Exchange
Feb 22 2016 // Vermont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott and the state’s legislative Republican leaders are calling for an independent assessment of the Vermont Health Connect state insurance exchange, with an eye toward possibly closing it and...
Vermont City Approves Rules for Taxi, Ride-Hailing Services
Feb 18 2016 // Burlington, Vermont, officials have approved new rules for ride-hailing services and taxi companies in the city. The Burlington Free Press reports city councilors on Tuesday adopted a proposed ordinance that permits...
Vermont Licensed 33 New Captive Insurers in 2015
Jan 25 2016 // Vermont licensed 33 new captive insurance companies in 2015, according to data released by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation. 2015’s new licensees bring Vermont’s overall total licenses to 1,062...
Vermont Licensed 33 New Captive Insurers in 2015
Jan 12 2016 // Vermont licensed 33 new captive insurance companies in 2015, according to data released by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation. 2015’s new licensees bring Vermont’s overall total licenses to 1,062...
Union Mutual of Vermont Companies Announces 4 Promotions
Jan 7 2016 // Jennifer P. Galfetti Union Mutual of Vermont Companies announced that Jennifer P. Galfetti, Lisa L. Keysar, Gary H. Ouellette and Schuyler M. Ryan were recently promoted. Galfetti was named chief financial officer, Keysar...
Zurich North America Forms Captive Insurance Company in Vermont
Dec 23 2015 // Zurich North America has selected Vermont as the domicile for a new sponsored cell captive company, according to the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation. The captive, Hoplite Reinsurance Company of Vermont, is...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Supreme Court Hears Liberty Mutual Case Against Vermont Data Law
Dec 21 2015 // Members of the U.S. Supreme Court indicated on Dec. 2 that Vermont and 17 other states could be prevented from collecting healthcare information from certain employee health plan administrators. The nine justices heard a...
Vermont Court Lets Home Insurer Off the Hook in Pesticide Lawsuit
Dec 17 2015 // A Vermont family who said their home was made unlivable by an exterminator who used a banned pesticide has had their lawsuit against an insurance company overturned. Neil and Patricia Whitney said a foster child brought...
Vermont Program Gives Low-Income Motorists a Break on Their Old Tickets
Dec 14 2015 // Program helps low-income drivers get suspended licenses back Since 2009, Brenda Kennett has been watching the cost of a handful of minor traffic violations add up, reaching about $1,500 in fines and fees. On Dec. 11, she...
Northeasterners Are Beginning to Wonder: Where’s Winter?
Dec 10 2015 // Some Northeasterners are beginning to wonder if a white Christmas may just be a dream, and business owners who rely on snow are starting to worry if warm weather could lead to a nightmare winter. In Maine, an outdoor...
People – East
Dec 7 2015 // CNA Financial Corporation announced the appointment of Dino E. Robusto as its chairman and chief executive officer, effective on or about Dec. 1, 2016. Robusto will succeed Thomas F. Motamed who has decided to retire at...
Vermont Trooper Specializes in Speeders on I-89 Hotspot
Dec 3 2015 // A stretch of the southbound side of Interstate 89 in Vermont is a hotspot for speeders traveling faster than 100 miles per hour and a member of the Vermont State Police’s traffic safety unit has made a specialty of...
Supreme Court Hears Liberty Mutual Case Against Vermont Data Law
Dec 3 2015 // Members of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated that Vermont and 17 other states could be prevented from collecting healthcare information from certain employee health plan administrators. The nine justices heard...
Vermont Health Connect Promises Fixes After Critical Review
Dec 2 2015 // Although Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin recently proclaimed the Vermont Health Connect a “totally different ballgame” in comparison to last year’s performance, a House committee on Monday heard of several...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Union Mutual of Vermont Companies Promotes Markolf to Director of Marketing
Nov 11 2015 // Alexis Markolf Union Mutual of Vermont Companies has promoted Alexis Markolf to director of marketing. She is based in the company’s Montpelier, Vermont, office. Markolf joined Union Mutual of Vermont Companies in...
Vermont Reviewing Suspended Driving Convictions
Nov 5 2015 // Vermont is reviewing about 900 convictions from the last 16 months for criminal driving with a suspended license to determine how many might have been improperly resulted from incomplete information about a driver’s...
For Vermont Police, Checking for Pot-Impaired Drivers Is Work in Progress
Oct 21 2015 // It’s common knowledge that driving with blood alcohol content higher than .08 violates the law. But with marijuana, things are a lot more hazy. As Vermont and other states consider following the lead of Colorado and...
