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Women Sue Yale Over Fentanyl Switch-Up at Fertility Clinic

Seven women who say they suffered excruciating pain after a nurse stole fentanyl for her personal use and replaced it with saline sued Yale University on Wednesday, alleging it of failing to safeguard its supply of the painkilling opioid at …

Kaplansky Insurance Acquires Massachusetts’ Judith M. Flynn Agency

Kaplansky Insurance acquired Judith M. Flynn Insurance Agency Inc., located in Dorchester, Massachusetts. This deal serves as Kaplansky’s fourth acquisition of 2021 and 38th overall and contributes to its growth across New England. Judith M. Flynn Insurance Agency has offered …

Boston Police Detective Who Alleged Sex Discrimination Awarded $2M

A federal jury has awarded $2 million to a high-ranking Boston police detective who said in a lawsuit against the department and her former supervisor that she was the victim of gender discrimination. The jury Monday after a four-week trial …

New York Man Charged with Murdering Woman in Murder-for-Hire Scheme

A Queens, New York, man has been charged with murdering a woman for life insurance benefits. A superseding indictment was filed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Cory Martin with murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. Martin was previously charged …

World Insurance Associates Acquires Massachusetts’ Pope Insurance Agency

World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired Pope Insurance Agency Inc. of Plainville, Massachusetts, on October 1, 2021. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Pope Insurance Agency Inc. is a multi-line insurance agency. It offers personal insurance for car, home …

Risk Strategies Acquires Connecticut’s TriPoint Insurance

Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, acquired TriPoint Insurance Inc., a national specialist providing Performance Based Insurance (PBI) solutions to middle market companies in the construction, manufacturing, wholesale and skilled nursing verticals. TriPoint’s PBI solutions …

Uninsured Premises Exclusion Bars Coverage in Home Misrepresentation Suit

An insurer does not have to provide coverage for a couple accused of misleading the buyers of their former home because of an uninsured premises exclusion in the couple’s homeowners policy. The lawsuit came about after Christopher and Dorothy Norton …

Eight Dead from COVID, 89 Infected at Connecticut Nursing Home

Eight residents of a nursing home in Connecticut have died during a coronavirus outbreak while 89 residents and employees have tested positive for the disease, nursing home officials say. The outbreak at the Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Canaan …

Massachusetts Gig Worker Ballot Measure Backers Submit Signatures

Backers of a measure that asks Massachusetts voters to treat drivers for app-based companies like Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc as independent contractors rather than employees said on Tuesday they had gathered enough signatures to get it on the …

BKS Partners Enters Agreement to Acquire Construction Risk Partners

Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners LLC (BKS Partners) entered into an agreement to acquire all the outstanding equity interests of Construction Risk Partners LLC (CRP). The transaction is expected to close on or around December 1, 2021, subject to certain closing …

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