East News for January 2011
- Massachusetts Attorney General Wants Tougher Workers’ Comp Penalties
 - Nearly 200 Animals Die in Upstate New York Barn Fire
 - Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Fighters Say Media Campaign Helping
 - Massachusetts Allows for Terrorism Exclusion in Commercial Insurance
 - Peerless Promotes Rooney, Canales
 - OSHA Fines New Hampshire Paper Company in Worker Death
 - Bollinger Acquires Charles G. Treloar Agency
 - Pasquale Named Top Exec at Oryx
 - Maryland Gov. Pushes $100M Tax Credit Program for Insurers
 - New Jersey Man Gets 4 Years for $20M Insurance Scam
 - Bikash to Oversee Planning at Gencorp
 - Massachusetts Repair Shop Owner Arraigned for Bilking Insurers
 - MarketScout Wholesale Acquires Wastepac
 - Glomb Named Underwriting Chief at PHLY
 - Connecticut Collected $6M in Recovered Claims and Fines Last Year
 - Massachusetts Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $43K in Premiums
 - Sex, Age Discrimination Suit Filed Against Bank of New York Mellon
 - Beacon Mutual Suit Granted Class-Action Status
 - Dead Woman’s Kin to Sue New York City over Blizzard Response
 - Swift Promoted to VP at Acadia
 - United Approved in Massachusetts
 - Vermont Settles Data Breach Case with Insurer for $55K
 - ReSource Pro Gets ISO Certification for Data Security
 - Mastrolia To Lead Construction Risk Management at Marsh
 - PURE to Begin Writing in Massachusetts
 - Rhode Island Bill Would Require Landscapers to Carry Insurance
 - Anderson Kill & Olick Opens Connecticut Office
 - William Palumbo Insurance Agency Forms Construction Divison
 - Tower Group Buys Renewal Rights For Some of Navigators Mid-Market Biz
 - Consedine Picked For Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner
 - New York Drops Last Marsh Bid-Rigging Criminal Cases
 - Insurers Lash Out at New York ‘Crash Tax’
 - Justice Department Settles Virginia Malpractice Suit for $2.3M
 - Encharter Adding Second Connecticut Location
 - Vermont Added 33 New Captives in 2010
 - Ames & Gough Names Payne as Senior Account Manager
 - Pennsylvania Insurance Program for Homes Above Mines Active
 - Erie Names Micholas as Pittsburgh Branch Office Manager
 - Alleged ‘Harassment’ Not Compensable for New Jersey Security Guard
 - Delaware Sees Fewest Traffic Deaths Since 1968
 - Malpractice Info Missing from Connecticut Docs Profiles
 - Marsh Names Sulkes as Head of Financial Institutions Practice
 - WKF&C Agency Names Sillat President
 - Marsh Names Sulkes U.S. Financial Institutions Practice Leader
 - Countryway Acquired by Virginia Farm Bureau
 - Personal Crusade for Tractor Safety in Pennsylvania
 - New Jersey Passes Captive Insurance Legislation
 - Weaver Named Head of Insurance Group at MphasiS
 - New York Insurers Applaud Plan to Merge State’s Regulatory Arms
 - Connecticut Woman Settles Suit Against Hospital
 - Study Says No-Fault Fraud A Major Problem in New York City
 - Pennsylvania Trench Collapse Kills 1, Injures Another
 - Maine Licenses Two New Insurers
 - New York Plans to Merge Banking, Insurance Regulators
 - McKnight Named Underwriting Vice President at Merchants
 - Delaware Bans Hand-Held Cell Phone Use While Driving
 - Insurers To Pay New York $120M for Premium Overcharges
 - Alliant Acquires T&H Group
 - O’Brien Named Head of Inland Marine Underwriters Association