Best Read Vermont Headlines
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#1 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...
#2 Why Vermont Keeps Flooding: It’s Complicated But Could Become the Norm
Aug 7 2024 // Vermont is flooding. Not just yesterday, two weeks ago and a year before that, but experts say the state could see catastrophic events like these for the foreseeable future. Climate change is fueling stronger, more...
#3 Vermont Diocese Files for Bankruptcy With No Insurance Left for Past Abuse Claims
Oct 2 2024 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it continues to face lawsuits over sexual abuse by its former clergy members in a state with no statute of limitations on...
#4 Vermont Approves Union Mutual Affiliation With N&D Group
Oct 15 2024 // Vermont’s insurance regulator has approved an affiliation of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co. with the Massachusetts-based mutual insurer Norfolk & Dedham Group. Under the now-approved “acquisition of...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 Vermont Farmers Take Stock After Losing Crops to Flooding Two Years in a Row
Jul 24 2024 // Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. This time it was worse. Workers were able to harvest some of the...
#8 Vermont Regulator Weighs Affiliation of Union Mutual With Norfolk & Dedham
Aug 29 2024 // Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article referred to this transaction as an acquisition. As both insurers are mutuals, and as mutuals cannot be legally acquired, the structure of the affiliation is not setup...
#9 Judge Allows Vermont Suit Alleging Police Bias, Excessive Force Against Black Teen
Aug 9 2024 // A Vermont judge has denied the city of Burlington’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against a Black teenager whose mother had called law enforcement to teach...
#10 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...
#11 Vermont City Pays $215K to Settle Lawsuit Accusing Officer of Excessive Force
Sep 23 2024 // Vermont’s largest city of Burlington has paid $215,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing a police officer of using excessive force by grabbing a man and slamming him to the ground, knocking him unconscious in September of...
#12 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...
#13 Vermont Governor Vetoes Data Privacy Bill As Too Hostile to Business, Nonprofits
Jun 17 2024 // Vermont’s governor has vetoed a broad data privacy bill that would have been one of the strongest in the country to crack down on companies’ use of online personal data by letting consumers file civil lawsuits...
#14 Four People From Connecticut Die in Small Plane Crash in Vermont
Sep 11 2024 // A small plane crashed in Vermont near an airport in Ferrisburgh, killing the four people on board, police said Monday. The Vermont State Police recovered the bodies from the wreckage of the four-seat, single-engine Piper...
#15 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...
#16 Vermont Suffered Millions in Damage From Last Week’s Flooding; Will Seek Federal Aid
Aug 4 2024 // The toll of damage from recent flooding in Vermont exceeds $6 million, and the state is asking the federal government for help, officials said. Vermont residents dealt with heavy flooding that damaged homes and...
#17 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...
#18 Vermont Lags in Risk Management for Natural Disasters Including Flooding
Sep 12 2024 // Vermont has failed to complete many actions in its five-year hazard mitigation plan aimed at reducing the risk from natural disasters such as flooding, according to a new report from the state auditor’s office. The...
#19 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...
#20 Vermont Again Dealing With Floodwaters
Jul 30 2024 // Northern Vermont today is dealing with flash floods and washed-out roads after a night and early morning of extreme rainfall. Parts of Caledonia county and the Northeast Kingdom received 6-8 inches of rain last night and...
