East News for August 2008
- Maryland Workers’ Compensation Costs Drop 5.4%
- Connecticut Says Use of Fake Auto Insurance Cards Growing
- Residents Approve $6.6M Settlement Over Mass. Paint Factory Explosion
- Pennsylvania Jury Gives $2.2M to Estate of DUI Crash Victim
- New Jersey Forest Fire Still Burning
- New York Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop 5 Percent
- Pennsylvania Chiropractor Charged in Staged Bus Accident Claims
- TAPCO Expands into Pennsylvania
- Settlement Reached in Deadly NYC Staten Island Ferry Crash
- Wakeley Joins Lloyd Inc. in Pennsylvania
- Bodybuilding Ex-Boston Firefighter Claims ‘Extreme’ Pain
- New York Freezes Malpractice Insurance Rates
- $6.6 Million Settlement Proposed in Mass. Chemical Explosion
- High Car Stacks Blamed in Rhode Island Recycling Yard Fire
- Lockton Connecticut Names Rodriquez Vice President
- New York City Bus Workers File Lawsuit against Diesel Makers
- Different Causes Found for New Hampshire 2006, 2007 Floods
- DA: Worker’s Torch Started Pennsylvania Apartment Fire
- Big Jump In Health Coverage Lowers Mass. Uninsured Costs
- Goedtel Named Member Liaison for PIA in New Hampshire
- Rhode Island Lead Paint Cleanup Proceeds under DuPont Deal
- Democrat Stewart Launches Campaign for Delaware Insurance Post
- Rhode Island, Town Reach $20M Deal in Club Fire Suits
- Agents’ Group Promotes Wright to Assistant Vice President
- Delaware Orders 11.5% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut
- Liberty Mutual Sues New York over Workers’ Comp Law Changes
- Brown & Brown Acquires Pa.’s Advanced Insurance Concepts
- New Jersey Mayor Gets 21 Months for Insurance Fraud Scheme
- Lawyers in Rhode Island Lead Paint Case Argue Court Costs
- Weather Service: No Tornado after Rare New York City Warning
- Angelo Joins OneBeacon Professional Partners
- Hudgins to Join Staff of the Virginia Big I Insurance Agents
- Campaign Donations Focus of Del. Insurance Commissioner Debate
- Judge: Caesars Atlantic City Discriminated against Men
- Huge Glass Panel Falls 50 Stories in New York, Injures 2
- New Hampshire Woman Sues City over 2007 Flooding
- New York Flood Insurance Notification Rules Change at Month’s End
- Mass. Considering Traffic Flaggers Instead of Police at Construction Sites
- Pittsburgh Man Convicted 11th Time for DUI
- Connecticut Insurance Dept Recovers $630K for Policyholders
- Upstate New York Swamped by Flooding from Rain Runoff
- Storm Damages Closes Delaware Zoo
- Pennsylvania Hands Out $600k in Insurance Fines
- NIF Group Promotes Williams
- Ex-Lead Paint Firms Seek Reimbursements after R.I. Suit
- Fake Fire Marshals Descend on Rhode Island City
- Eastern Insurance Acquires Kittredge Insurance Agency
- New York Construction Company Fined for Worker’s Accidental Electrocution
- More New Jersey Drivers Using Seat Belts
- New York Law Increases Penalties for Bribing Crane Inspectors
- Two New York City Window Washers Die in Accident
- Delaware Police Issue 840 Speeding Tickets in 1 Month
- High Gas Prices Lead GEICO to Drop New York Auto Rate Hike
- Best, S&P See No Change in Hanover’s Ratings on AIX Purchase
- N.J. High Court: Annoying Not Harassment
- Rhode Island Arraigns Allegedly Drunkest-Ever Driver
- The Hanover to Acquire AIX Holdings
- N.Y. Requires Showing of Prejudice Before Insurers Disclaim for Late Notice
- Erie Insurance Expands Auto Coverage for Pets in Virginia
- Safety Insurance Net Income Steady for Q2 Under New Mass. Auto System
- Two New York Contractors Face Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
- Massachusetts Officials Say Corrosion Led to Fatal Boiler Explosion
- Delaware Amends Insurance Law to Let Retired Surgeons Serve Veterans
- Delaware Enacts Insurance Laws on Weather Claims, Firefighters, Teens
- Delaware Court Rebuffs D&O Insurer on Proportionate Defense Costs
- Virginia Plans Hearing on Workers’ Compensation Premiums
- N.J.’s Palisades Acquires Proformance Insurance
- New Jersey Man Injured by Golf Ball Launched by Mower Gets $725K