East News for February 2009
- Judge Dismisses UConn Law Library Construction Lawsuit
 - Ray Named Treasurer at Rogers & Gray in Massachusetts
 - New Jersey Company Settles Massachusetts Lawsuit for $239K
 - Texting While Driving Ban Passes Virginia Senate
 - Cefaioli Joins TD Insurance in Massachusetts
 - The Hanover Appoints Powers
 - Maine Commissioner Urges Residents to Consider Flood Insurance
 - Kin of Wal-Mart Stampede Victim to Sue New York County
 - Connecticut Chimp Owner Faces Likely Lawsuit, Experts Say
 - Two Suspects Arrested in Southeast Pennsylvania Arsons
 - New Jersey High Court Denies Claim in Drive-by Shooting
 - Officials: Woman Killed in Massachusetts House Explosion
 - New York Regulator ‘Reminds’ Insurers about Accounting Requirements
 - New Hampshire Governor Wants Worker Charged with Fraud Suspended
 - Harleysville Premiums Up 5% in Q4; Combined Ratio 98.5%
 - Gilbertson Named Growth Leader for Willis HRH in New Jersey
 - More Earthquakes Rattle New Jersey
 - New York State Insurance Fund: Anti-Fraud Efforts Saved $20.7M
 - Umstot Joins Target Insurance Services
 - Connecticut Agents’ Group Urges State to Drop Cat-Fund Plan
 - Police: New York Man with Anti-DWI Device in DWI Crash
 - Virginia Places Shenandoah Life Insurance Into Receivership
 - USAA Insurance Moving 475 Jobs Out of Virginia
 - Spiro Receives Award from New York Agents’ Trade Group
 - Connecticut to Start Using Newer Breathalyzers
 - Ex-Candidate for Delaware Commissioner’s Office Switches Parties
 - Pennsylvania Woman Who Sang about Fire Charged with 7 Arsons
 - Continental Airlines Flight Crashes in Upstate New York
 - Massachusetts Ex-Regulator Joins Narragansett Bay Insurance
 - Jury Clears Volkswagen in Car Crash That Paralyzed Vermont Man
 - New York Bus Company Owner Charged with Shirking Workers’ Comp
 - New Jersey Agents: Allow Fees for Some Commercial-Lines Services
 - Vermont Weighs Expansion of Workers’ Comp
 - Baettcher Joins Crump Insurance Services
 - Rhode Island Judge Asked to OK Club Fire Settlement Plan
 - New York Fines Zurich $250K over Veterinarians E&O Rates
 - Starkweather & Shepley Hires Fotopulos
 - Twenty-Third Arson of 2009 Declared in Southeast Pennsylvania
 - The Hartford Sues Virginia Firm to Limit Salmonella Claims
 - Mobile Lift Crash Kills 1, Inures Another in Downtown Boston
 - Conn., New York and New Jersey to Get $22M for Displaced Workers
 - Baltimore Man Files $210 Million Lawsuit over Public Strip Search
 - Maryland Suit Claims Restaurant Drink was Cleaning Chemical
 - New York Proposes Compensation Disclosure Rules for Agents
 - Allstate Asks New Jersey for 15.4% Rate Hike
 - New York City Announces New Construction Safety Measures
 - Connecticut Collected $4.1M in Market Conduct Fines Last Year
 - McAuley Woods Hires Simon
 - Alleged Arsonist Pleads Not Guilty of Setting Fire in Maine Town
 - Massachusetts Doctors’ Group Wants to Rein in Liability Exposures
 - Maryland to Join National System to Prevent Auto Fraud
 - New York Wholesalers’ Association Names Cruz to Board
 - Rhode Island Town Wants Help Paying Nightclub Fire Agreement
 - Cops Check 4 More Fires in Arson-Plagued Pennsylvania Area
 - Appeals Court Upholds Forklift Verdict
 - New York Agents’ Group Wants Streamlined Agent-Licensing Procedure