East News for October 2018
- Connecticut Approves 17% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut for 2019
 - Risk Strategies Acquires Maryland’s Arkin Youngentob Associates
 - Utility Says Massachusetts Pipeline Replacement to be Completed This Week
 - Former Pastor Sentenced to Prison for Setting Fire to Apartment in Insurance Scam
 - Utility to Miss Deadline for Restoring Gas After Massachusetts Explosions
 - Virginia Lawsuit Seeks $350K for Injuries in Game of Tag in Gym Class
 - Officials Say Plane Broke Apart Before Long Island Fatal Crash
 - Lawyer Says Family Wants Justice After Massachusetts Gas Explosions Death
 - Mass. Court Rules for Auto Insurer in ‘Blood Relative’ Household Member Case
 - New Jersey Insurance Broker Stole Nearly $1M While Selling Fake Health Insurance
 - New York Says Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risks
 - A.M. Best Revises Outlooks to Stable for Agency Insurance Company of Maryland
 - New Hampshire Restaurant Accused in Crash Death of Three Men Faces Trial
 - HMS Agency Acquires New York’s Adirondack Family Insurance Services
 - Pennsylvania’s Arthur Hall Insurance Hires Hernandez
 - Massachusetts’ Rogers & Gray Insurance Names Bizak as Chief Partnership Officer
 - New York AG ‘Puts Up,’ Sues Exxon Over Climate Change Disclosures
 - NJM Hires Callahan to Expand Teen Driver Safety Program in Pennsylvania
 - NIF Group Hires Schutz as an Excess and Surplus Lines Broker in Massachusetts
 - Massive Blaze Tears Through New Jersey Town, Destroys Multiple Businesses
 - Delaware Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates Decrease for Second Year in a Row
 - Wells Fargo Will Pay $65M Penalty to New York Over Cross-Selling Practices
 - Head of Crumbling Foundations Fund in Connecticut Says $1B Needed
 - Disaster Relief Approved for Pennsylvania Areas Affected by August Storm
 - USI Insurance Services Acquires Pennsylvania’s Beneficial Insurance Services
 - No Trial for Amtrak Engineer in Deadly Pennsylvania Crash Until 2019
 - Vermont Construction Company Investigated After Death of Employee
 - Boston Cop Who Was Shot Sues Online Gun Dealer for Negligence
 - New York Is Considering Blocking Parts of $68B CVS, Aetna Merger
 - Merchants Insurance Group’s Winkworth Named to Agents Council for Technology
 - New Hampshire Insurance Company Trains Workers on Overdose Reversal Drug
 - Uber Driver Charged with Kidnapping New York Woman
 - Mo’s Seafood in Maryland to Pay $1M to Workers Who Sued Over Pay
 - Virginia’s Prosper Insurance Company to Expand Headquarters, Add 75 Jobs
 - Everest Insurance Hires Pollert in New York City
 - Anti-Hazing Law in Penn State Student’s Name Goes to Governor
 - Firefighters Say Natural Gas Explosion at Virginia Home Injures Nine
 - The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ DBR Group
 - SASCO Insurance Services Merges with New Jersey’s Otterstedt Insurance Agency
 - Calls for New Regulation Mount as New York Limo Crash Victims Mourned
 - Opioid Overdoses in Maryland Increase in First Six Months of 2018
 - New York Contractor Pleads Guilty to $800K Business Fraud Scheme
 - Utility Crews Restoring Power Across Virginia After Michael
 - Starr’s Ameruoso Joins JLT Re Construction Casualty Division, Facultative
 - Limousine Company Operator Arrested Following Deadly New York Crash
 - EPIC Acquires New York’s Total Management Corporation
 - Gas Blasts Near Boston Linked to NiSource Unit’s Work Orders
 - New Jersey Jury Rejects Claim J&J Baby Powder Caused Woman’s Cancer
 - Limo Service Lawyer Says Violations Fixed Before Fatal New York Crash
 - Willis Towers Watson Hires Hay, Walker in Connecticut
 - Pennsylvania’s Erie Insurance Names Dugan VP, Corporate Human Resources Officer
 - Berkley One Continues Expansion into New York, Connecticut
 - New York Governor Says Limo That Crashed Shouldn’t Have Been on the Road
 - New Jersey Lumber Company Faces $106K in Penalties for Safety, Health Hazards
 - Risk Strategies Hires Morin as VP of University Health Plans in Massachusetts
 - The Hits Keep Coming: More Transitional Cybersecurity Requirements in New York
 - Virginia Police Say Pilot Has Died in a Single-Engine Plane Crash
 - N.J. Pet Food Manufacturer Cited for Failure to Correct Prior Safety Hazards
 - U.S. Limo Regulations Probed After Deadly New York Crash, NTSB Says
 - Massachusetts Senators Say Utility ‘Woefully’ Unprepared for Gas Explosions
 - The Main Street America Group Promotes Waters in New Hampshire
 - New York’s MLMIC Insurance Company Joins Berkshire Hathaway Family of Companies
 - AIG Is Seeking More Than $200M for Manhattan Hotel
 - Judge Allows New Jersey Case Against Drugmaker to Advance
 - Disaster Declaration Approved for Flash Flood Recovery in New York
 - Connecticut’s RVI Group Appoints Fan to Lead Passenger Vehicle Insurance and Analytics
 - CVS Pledges Aetna Will Remain in Hartford for at Least 10 Years
 - Maryland County Approves $17M for Ellicott City Flood Plan
 - Utility Lays Out Plan Restoring Gas Service After Massachusetts Explosions
 - Gas Line Rupture Sparks Fire in Pennsylvania, Injures One Worker
 - Man Awarded $1.6M Following Sears Fork Lift Accident in New York
 - Bus Driver Found Guilty in Citi Bike Death in New York
 - Pennsylvania Warns About Flood-Damaged Vehicles After Hurricane Florence
 - Three Dead After Pennsylvania Car Explosion
 - IAT Insurance Group Finalizes Acquisition of New Jersey’s IFIC Surety Group
 - Multiple Fires Destroy 12 Buildings in New York
 - Cooley Adds Lawson to Partnership in Massachusetts
 - Worldwide Facilities Acquires Assets of Massachusetts’ Draco Insurance Solutions
 - NYC Jury Awards Woman $15M for Failure to Diagnose Glaucoma
 - $20K Worth of Tools Stolen from Rhode Island Habitat for Humanity Home
 - The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Elects Officers
 - Emergency Loans Available for Massachusetts Businesses Hurt by Gas Blasts
 
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