East News for March 2011
- New York City Landlords Facing Harsher Bedbug Penalties
 - Murder Is an Accident? To Insured It Is, New York’s Highest Court Says
 - New York Sting Nets 13 Arrests for Workers’ Comp Fraud
 - Simanoff Joins Morstan General Agency
 - Crackdown on Distracted Drivers Under Way in Connecticut
 - Maine Couple Loses Lawsuit Against Cement Company
 - Coleman Joins All Risks
 - New York Dilutes Plan to Merge Banking and Insurance Departments
 - Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Local Lawsuit Protection Bill
 - New Jersey, Home to Oldest U.S. Nuke Plant, Reviewing Safety
 - NYC Marks 100th Anniversary of Deadly Factory Fire
 - Rhode Island Ponders Forcing Insurers to Buy Driving Records
 - Rhode Island Town Not Liable for $4.3M in Damages in Bullying Suit
 - Proudlove Named VP at Global Aerospace
 - Injured Cyclist’s Family Sues Car Driver for $10M
 - New York Ex-Lawmaker Gets Prison in Insurance Fraud Case
 - Company Faces $300M Penalty in Pennsylvania Pollution Suit
 - Pennsylvania Ponders Workers’ Comp for Small Business Owners
 - Virginia’s CSE Agency Joins Keystone
 - Connecticut Woman Tests State Workers’ Comp Laws
 - Vermont Lawmakers Ask for Study on Medical Malpractice
 - Maryland Weighs Prohibition on Insurers’ Use of Credit Scores
 - Former New York Lawmaker Faces Prison for Insurance Fraud
 - Virginia Man Wins $25M in Lawsuit Against Exxon
 - New Jersey Captive Group Appoints Board
 - New York Governor Will Review Safety at Nuclear Plant
 - New Hampshire City Investigates Five Arsons in Six Days in
 - New York Fraud Investigators Arrested 668 People Last Year
 - Worker at Rhode Island Business Dies
 - Dad of Gas-Soaked Stun Gun Victim Sues Pennsylvania Police
 - Integro Acquires Windward International
 - Business Chief to Stay on in Maine Cabinet
 - Massachusetts Urged to Remove Dangerous Dams
 - No-Fault Claims Top New York Insurance Fraud List
 - MEMIC Promotes Bourque to Senior Vice President
 - Core Programs Established in New Jersey
 - XL Adds Schenone to Space Underwriting Unit
 - KMRD Adds Two Producers
 - Rhode Island Attorney General Opposes Workers’ Comp Rate Hike
 - Judge Tosses $20M Suit Against Police in Pennsylvania Pursuit Death
 - Connecticut PIA Elects New Officers
 - Couch Braunsdorf Hires Routzahn as D.C. Sales Director
 - Maine Gets Break in Federal Health Care Overhaul
 - Aspen Launches U.S. Surety Unit
 - RCM&D Buys TRION’s Commercial P&C Division
 - Insurance Costs Lead to Ticket Tax at Pennsylvania Theater
 - KPMG Names Hay to Lead Insurance Practice
 - William Palumbo Agency Partners with Investment Firm
 - Trevisan Named Senior Vice President at Willis Human Capital
 - Pennsylvania Ponders Election for Insurance Commissioner
 - USI Acquires Amerisc
 - ProMutual Reduces Premiums for Massachusetts Dentists
 - SIAA Adds New Members
 - Kruse Joins Condon & Skelly
 - Interstate Insurance Management Promotes Four
 - ‘Spider-Man’ on Broadway Slapped with Violations
 - Feds Eye New York Scaffold Collapse that Ended in Rescue
 - USI Acquires Amerisc
 - Liberty Mutual Hiring 100 for Boston IT Center
 - Turner Joins XL as Product Recall Manager
 - Aon Adds Three Execs in Tri-State Region
 - Maine Regulators Recovered $3.5 Million Last Year
 - Former Rhode Island Town Councilman Admits Taking Bribes
 - Main Street Insurance Agencies Elects New Officers
 - New York City Obstetricians Face Insurance Cutoff
 - Agreement Leaves Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates Flat
 - Cubano Joins Provider Insurance
 - New Jersey Seeks Premium Refunds for Scrapped Tunnel Project
 - Virginia Wildfires Still Going a Week Later