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HARTFORD MAY GAIN IN MERGER:

The Hartford community has been encouraged by signs that it may not lose as many of its close to 6,000...

VERMONT GETS COMP PACKAGE:

As promised, Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas has introduced legislation to make changes in the state’s workers’ compensation system. The reform...

Q4 PROPERTY PREMIUMS DROPPED 9%:

Commercial insurance buyers say the cost of property insurance fell 8.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003, marking the...

MASS. PRESSURE FOR COST STUDY:

Massachusetts’s auto insurance agents are being told that their participation in a new cost study could determine what they will...

S.D. SUED OVER COUNTERSIGNATURE LAW:

South Dakota is one of three U.S. jurisdictions whose countersignature laws are being challenged in court by the Washington, D.C.-based...

TOUGH RHODE ISLAND FIRE CODE:

The panel that interprets Rhode Island’s fire code saw a flurry of requests for waivers and extensions as business owners,...

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