East News for September 2016
- Maryland’s Amended Premium Increase Notice Requirement to Take Effect
 - New Jersey Train Service Suspended as Investigators Seek Cause of Crash
 - Wal-Mart Employee Sets 3 Fires Inside Massachusetts Store
 - Insurance Company Wants Out of Delaware Child Porn Defamation Suit
 - Owners of a Massachusetts Company Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
 - Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey Inaugurates Board
 - Firms Should Look Closely at Data Practices, New York Conference Panelists Say
 - Drought Conditions and Low Water Supply Raise Fire Concerns in Rhode Island
 - Pennsylvania Hospital Sued Over Firing of Employees Who Refused Flu Shots
 - Pennsylvania’s Henderson Brothers Hires Murphy
 - New York Cyber Conference Panelists Stress Importance of Unified Cybersecurity Plan
 - Gas Explosion in New York Home Injures 7
 - Pennsylvania Bomb Squad Removes Suspicious Package Near Hotel
 - Massachusetts Educators, Police to Discuss Campus Safety at Conference
 - Penn State and Insurer Settle Fight Over Payments to Sandusky Sex Abuse Victims
 - Maine Headquartered MEMIC Promotes Meinke
 - Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America Elects Costello to Executive Committee
 - Trump Hotels Settles with New York Attorney General Over Data Breaches
 - Man Charged in New Jersey Apartment Fire That Destroyed Three Buildings
 - New Jersey Shore Town Still Considering Settlement for Gay Ex-Officer
 - Massachusetts’ The Hanover Insurance Group Hires Farber
 - Coface Appoints Murer as New Jersey Based CEO of North America
 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Remove Asbestos from New York Factory
 - New Jersey Homeland Security Monitoring Special Events After Bombing
 - John Hancock Names Watters a Director
 - NSI Insurance Group Acquires New York Based KMH Insurance Services
 - Peer-to-Peer Personal Lines Insurer Lemonade Opens for Business in New York
 - 19 Insurance Firms to Support Homeless Youth in Covenant House New York Event
 - Ex-Head of Pennsylvania Hospice Faces Insurance Fraud Charges
 - Massachusetts Resisting Drugmakers’ Efforts to Weaken Anti-Opioid Measures
 - New York Businesses Advised to Check Insurance in Wake of Chelsea Terrorism Bombing
 - Massachusetts Based XS Brokers Hires Kent to Connecticut Office
 - Evergreen Insurance in New York Acquires Sheridan’s Assets
 - More Than $500K Donated to Delaware Officials to Address Rising Opioid Deaths
 - Yale University Responds to Ex-Basketball Captain’s Lawsuit in Sex Assault Case
 - New York Bombing Suspect in Custody, Investigation Continues
 - Internet Insurance Group Launches Online Insurance Platform for Small Businesses
 - Apex Insurance Services Opens New Jersey Office, Promotes Galati
 - Pennsylvania City Fleet Supervisor Admits Theft in $400K Auto Shop Fraud
 - Treasurer of Rhode Island Charity Sentenced for Stealing Nearly $186K
 - New York Regulators Announce Emergency Measure to Protect Some Health Insurers
 - City of Boston Launches Urban Mobility Program, Prepares to Test Driverless Cars
 - New Inflation Requirements for Pennsylvania Long Term Care Partnership Policies to Take Effect
 - Alliant Americas Hires Pizzi to New Jersey Office
 - Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Elects Parsons as President
 - Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.8M from QVC Shopping Network
 - Pittsburgh Uber Riders Preview Driverless Cars Through Test Program
 - New York Proposes ‘Flexible’ Cybersecurity Regulation for Insurers, Banks
 - New York to Provide $5M in Grants to Prevent Workplace Injuries
 - New Jersey Condo Complex Fire Damages More Than Half of Units
 - Carrier to Exit New Jersey Health Exchange Marketplace
 - Connecticut Based RiskMatch Hires Golden
 - Chubb Promotes Navakas to New York Overseas General Insurance Division
 - New Hampshire Prep School Sued Over Withdrawing Student Who Had Sex
 - Hartford Officials Refuse to Pay if Damages Awarded in Police Officer Lawsuit
 - Maryland Insurance Administration’s Hatchette Joins Maryland Commission on Aging
 - Berkshire Accused of Stealing Workers’ Comp Premiums in Manhattan Lawsuit
 - Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Urges Better Understanding of Annuities
 - XL Catlin Hires Agatep in New York
 - Fire Causes an Estimated $450K in Damage to Maryland Play Center
 - Rhode Island Sues 34 Oil Companies Over Gas Additive Contamination
 - Virginia Judge Rejects Rolling Stone’s Bid to Throw Out $25M Lawsuit
 - $3.1M Rhode Island Home Considered Total Loss after Fire
 - Ex-Insurance Salesman Jailed for Stealing Nearly $1M from Friend’s Account
 - Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services of Massachusetts Adds Seven Members
 - Liberty Mutual Eyes Sale of Two Office Buildings in Boston
 - Insurer Appeals Order to Pay Connecticut Diocese $945K for Abuse Settlements
 - Everest Insurance Adds Murray to New York City Office
 - New York Headquartered QBE North America Promotes Fanti
 - Court Rules Massachusetts Law Applies in Rhode Island Contamination Suit
 - Pennsylvania Reinstates Uber’s Record $11.4M Fine
 - Massachusetts’ Gordon Insurance and Atlantic Advisers Announce Merger
 - New York’s Integro Insurance Brokers Acquires Insurance Revolution
 - Fire Causes $100K in Damage to Delaware Home
 - Connecticut’s 2017 Health Insurance Rates Expected to Rise
 - Two Johnson & Johnson Talc Cancer Lawsuits Dismissed by New Jersey Judge
 - School Boards Insurance Company of Pennsylvania Rebrands Following Church Mutual Acquisition
 - CVS in Massachusetts Agrees to Pay $795K to State in Opioids Settlement
 - Northeast Coast Spared Hermine’s Worst
 - Judge Dismisses Lawsuits Over 2013 Shooting at Pennsylvania Town Building
 - Worker Dies After Elevator Malfunctions at New Jersey Restaurant
 - Pennsylvania’s Keystone Insurers Group Hires Neff
 - Northeast Could See Impact of Tropical Storm Hermine After Months of Drought
 - Vermont Begins Restoration Program for Suspended Driving Licenses
 - Fire Safety Inspections to Take Place on New York College Campuses Ahead of Fall Classes
 - New York State Court Rules Strip Club Owes Unemployment Insurance to Dancers
 - California Based EPIC Insurance Brokers Hires Caracciolo and Klaschka in New York
 - New York Set to Expand Medical Marijuana Program