East News for December 2022
- Highway Fatalities Top 170 in Maine
- Pennsylvania Helps Buffalo Clear Snow; State Acts on Insurance, Banks, Flood Risk
- OSHA Penalties Upheld Against Vermont Cable Firm Over Death at New York Site
- Top 10 East Insurance Journal Stories of 2022
- Insurer Finds Connecticut Public Buildings Free From Foundation Problems of Homes
- Death Count Rises as Buffalo Digs Out From ‘Worst Storm’ in Lifetime
- Polar Park Construction Manager Pays $1.9M Over Minority Hiring Pledge
- Judge Permits Claim for Business Lost While Helping Clients Recover From Data Breach
- Grohs Schrager Hampson Aviation Acquires New Jersey’s Wings Agency
- Hilb Acquires OceanPoint Insurance in Rhode Island
- President Biden Approves Emergency Declaration for New York Counties
- Extreme Cold, Travel Chaos to Continue Into This Week
- Alex Jones Loses Bid to Have Sandy Hook Verdict Set Aaide
- New Jersey Gov. Murphy Signs Gun Carry Bill
- Title Insurer Stewart Agrees to $2.5M ‘No-Poaching’ Settlement With New York
- Baltimore Police Say Carjackers Targeting Rideshare Drivers
- Lawsuits Alleging Maine Church Knew About Sex Abuse Now Number 14
- Buffalo Bus Driver Gets 5 Years Probation for Workers’ Compensation Claims Fraud
- Gallagher to Acquire HR, Benefits Firm Buck For $660 Million
- One Dead, Another Injured During Ammonia Leak at Massachusetts Food Plant
- Monsanto Moves to Halt School Demolition by Vermont City Suing It Over PCB Chemicals
- Top Court Grants a Mulligan, Overturns $3.5M Penalty Against Club for Errant Golf Balls
- City of Buffalo Sues Gunmakers Under Public Nuisance Law
- Chubb Announces Plans for New Philadelphia Office
- Judge Sends Philadelphia Eagles, 76ers Covid Insurance Ruling Into Overtime
- New Jersey Lawmakers Pass Gun Carry Bill With Insurance Mandate
- Hilb Group Expands in New York Region With Commercial Book Acquisition
- Massachusetts Fines Benefit Manager Over Workers’ Compensation Drug Prices
- Death Claim Filed Too Late for Malpractice Reform Law, Says Pennsylvania High Court
- Dog Attack Clearly Excluded From Apartment Complex Owner’s Policy
- Maryland High Court Joins Others in Backing Insurer in Covid-19 Claims Denial
- New York Jury Convicts Lawyer, Doctor in $31M Trip-and-Fall Insurance Fraud
- Transgender Worker Sues New Hampshire Employer Alleging Bias in Health Plan
- Massachusetts Adds Cannabis Risks Curriculum to Driver Education Program
- Virginia Beach Settles With Lynch Family Over Police Shooting
- Kinsale Acquires Property in Richmond
- Virginia County School Administrators Facing Trials Over Response to Sexual Assaults
- 8 Hurt in Fire at New York Police Evidence Warehouse
- Fire on Vermont Dairy Farm Destroys Barn, Kills 40 Cows
- Monsanto Balks as Vermont City Sues Over PCB Contamination of School
- Alcohol Causes 1 in 20 Deaths in Massachusetts, Boston University Report Shows
- Court Defines Insurance Broker’s Duty to Inform LLCs About Workers’ Compensation
- People Moves: EverQuote’s Bishop Joins Plymouth Rock; Gada Joins Alliant in New Jersey
- AM Best Downgrades Mid-Hudson Group
- New York Politician Who Ran for Mayor Sues Sex Misconduct Accuser for Defamation
- New York Enacts Law Protecting Hate Crime Victims in Insurance Dealings
- Two Firefighters Die in Pennsylvania House Fire
- Network Merger: New Jersey Alliance’s 22 Agencies to Join Keystone Group
- Uninsured Motorist Coverage Does Not Apply to Horse-Drawn Buggy
- Army Corps Questioned Over $52 Billion Flood Control Plan With Movable Barriers, Gates
- Students Sue University of Vermont Over Response to Sexual Assaults
- Proposed Class Action Alleges Liberty Mutual Website Violates Pennsylvania Law
- New Jersey Sues Town That Defied Ban on Repairing Eroded Beach
- Maine Catholic Church Hit With More Sex Abuse Claims Under Revised Law
- Appeals Court Allows New York to Keep Enforcing New Gun Law
- Germany’s BASF to Restore Polluted Superfund Site in New Jersey
- Foggy Conditions, Low Altitude Cited in Report on Plane Crash into Power Lines
- Insurer Liable for COVID Shutdown of Tina Turner Play, New York Appellate Court Rules
- Vermont to Offer Voluntary Paid Leave for State Workers Before Private Program
- New York’s Marenco Agency Joins Renaissance Network
- Pawtucket Settles Candidates’ Free Speech Claims Over Political Sign Restriction
- Coast Guard Blames Pilot for Cargo Ship Grounding in Chesapeake Bay in March
- Cosby, NBC, Studio Face New Sex Abuse Lawsuit Under New York’s Filing Extension
- Report Blasts Virginia School System’s Handling of Sexual Assaults
- Virginia Court Reverses, Rules for Single Limit in GEICO Uninsured/Underinsured Case
- Two Killed in Explosion at Virginia Welding Business
- Workers’ Comp Board Upheld in Banning Chiropractor Accused in Kickback Probe
- Massachusetts Settles With Walmart Over Workers’ Compensation Drug Prices
- Union Bay Acquires Pennsylvania’s LaBrozzi Insurance
- Maine Jury Awards Ex-Trooper $300,000 in Whistleblower Case
- Parents of Gunman in Deadly Pennsylvania State Trooper Shooting Settle Suit
- Massachusetts High Court to Weigh Fate of 27,000 Drunk Driving Cases
- Gunmaker Sig Sauer Faces Suit by Police, Veterans, Others Vowing Gun Goes Off by Itself
- Innocent Man Freed After 25 Years in Jail to Receive $18M for Wrongful Conviction
- Baltimore Fire Chief Resigns as Fatal Fire Report Released
- Massachusetts Insurance Agent Sentenced for Disability Fraud
- Employee Claims Google Fired Him Over Refusing Sex Advance, Failure to Be ‘Inclusive’
- Pilot Cited ‘Rigging Issue’ Before Small Plane Crashed in Pennsylvania
- New York Online Hate Speech Law Challenged by Thiel-Backed Rumble
- Massachusetts Prison Guards Begin Body Camera Pilot Program
- Harvard to Appeal Missed Insurance Claim Deadline Ruling That Cost It $15M
- Delaware Judge Blocks Dr. J Lawsuit Against Branding Firm, Passes Case to Arbitration
- FEMA COVID-19 Reimbursement Surpasses $4 Billion in Mid-Atlantic States
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