Vermont News

Sparking fire safety

Jackson Holland was smoking a cigarette around 4 p.m. one weekend day outside his Mount Ivy, N.Y., home when he...

Fired-up over safer cigarettes

By Chris Hamby
Now 21 states require cigarettes to be self-extinguishing Cigarettes sold in 21 states will be self-extinguishing after a strikingly high...

My New Markets

Workers’ Comp, Security, Investigative Agencies Nuts & Bolts: A guaranteed cost workers’ compensation program for security guard and investigative agencies...

Fired-up over safer cigarettes

Cigarettes sold in 21 states will be self-extinguishing after a strikingly high 15 states passed new laws this year to...

Business Moves

The Hanover, Professionals Direct The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. reports it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Professionals Direct,...

N.H. Fire-Safe Cigarette Law In Effect

A law requiring cigarettes sold in New Hampshire be self-extinguishing kicked in Oct. 1. Self-extinguishing, or “fire-safe” cigarettes, are designed...