East News for May 2022
- Baltimore Settles With Rapper for $300K Over Claims of False Arrest, Police Planting Drugs
- National Grid Worker Electrocuted at Massachusetts Worksite
- Rhode Island Becomes 19th State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
- People Moves: MEMIC Names White Underwriter for Pennsylvania; World Insurance Hires Robb as General Counsel; S&S Adds Loss Control Specialist White
- 1, 2, 3 FedEx Trucks Crash Into Each Other on Maine Road
- New York City Firms’ Return-to-Office Plans Face Persistent COVID Headwinds
- Massachusetts Joins States Suing Makers, Marketers of ‘Forever Chemicals’
- Jury Grants 2 Former Philadelphia Police Officers $1M Bias Verdict Against City
- Delaware Governor Carney Vetoes Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
- Massive Blaze Damages Newly Renovated Newport Hotel
- Federal Judge Upholds New York Law Allowing Lawsuits Against Gun Industry
- New York Opens New Window for Adult Sex Abuse Survivors to Sue
- Hilb Group Adds to Commercial Lines, Surety Business in Tri-State Region
- Oil Firms Strike Out Again in Fight Against Massachusetts, Rhode Island Climate Suits
- New York City to Pay $7M to Man Wrongfully Convicted in 1996 Killing
- New York City Area Traffic Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels
- Markets/Coverages: NJM Introduces Commercial Package Policy in New Jersey
- Vermont Creates Panel to Oversee Opioid Settlement Spending
- Rochester Diocese Offers $147M to Settle Sexual Abuse Claims
- Virginia’s Loudoun School Board Sues to Halt Grand Jury Work
- Forest Fire in Northern New Hampshire Nearly Contained
- YES and No: New York’s Yankees Network Sues Insurer to Recover COVID Losses
- Man Who Sued InfoWars’ Jones Among Victims of Massachusetts Fire
- Explosion at Maryland Nail Salon Injured 7 Including First Responders
- Markets/Coverages: Maryland’s Residual Insurer Ups Limits for Commercial Drivers
- ‘Borat’ Actor Cohen Drops $9M Suit Against Cannabis Company Over Billboard
- New Jersey Trampoline Park Can’t Enforce Arbitration Clause Against Minor Who Lied
- Delaware Governor Signs Paid Family, Medical Leave Law
- Investigation Underway Into Massachusetts Apartment Building Fire That Took 4 Lives
- Rhode Island Lawmakers Revise Recreational Marijuana Bill Ahead of Next Week’s Votes
- Maine Attorney General Plans to Sue PFAS Manufacturers
- New York Accuses Amazon of Discriminating Against Pregnant and Disabled Workers
- Energy Firms Lose Challenge to Remand of Baltimore Climate Suit to State Court
- Maryland Internship Program Trains Firefighters of Tomorrow
- Firefighters Battle Large Forest Fire in White Mountains in New Hampshire
- How Sunken Boat Insurance Claim Factors Into Vermont Murder Case
- Judge Advances Suit Alleging Virginia Police Officers Protected Sex Traffickers
- 16 State Attorneys General Back Local Virginia School Board on Admissions Policy
- Liberty University Settles With 12 Women Who Sued Over Sexual Assault Policies
- Delaware Cannabis Fate Uncertain as Bill Goes to Governor
- Court Lets Connecticut Police Hiring Lawsuit Proceed
- People Moves: IA&B Hires Lobbyist; Concord Specialty Promotes 3; IMUA Elects Officers
- Forest Service Cites ‘Person of Interest’ in Fire in New Hampshire’s White Mountains
- Judge Says ‘Vape’ Musical Parody May Go On as ‘Grease’ Copyright Claim Flops
- In Virginia, These Dogs May Hunt on Private Farm Even If Owner Objects
- Choice Financial Buys Pensylvania’s Fonner Insurance
- Rhode Island High Court Revisits Exception to Workers’ Comp ‘Going-and-Coming’ Rule
- COVID-19 Orders Not an Excuse for Business to Skip Rent, Connecticut Court Rules
- Day Camp Operator in Massachusetts Blames Benjamin Moore Stain for Fire
- Court Says Federal Law Preempts, Tosses New York Suit Over Amazon Worker Safety
- Two Barges Break Free in Flooding, Float Down the Potomac
- Video Gives More Detail on Collapse of Pittsburgh Bridge
- High Hazard Dams in New Hampshire Growing in Number
- U.S. Labor Board Accuses Starbucks in Buffalo of Retaliatory Firings
- Exclusion Left Off Declarations Page Ruled Unenforceable ‘Hidden Trap’ in New Jersey
- New York City to Settle Lawsuit Over Wrongful Murder Conviction for $10.5M
- Vermont Financial Services Regulator Pieciak Announces Run for State Treasurer
- People Moves: A.I.M. Mutual Picks Landers as New President, CEO
- Gen Re, Boston’s Suffolk University Create Behavioral Economics Relationship
- New Jersey Steers $50M Into Program to Buy Flood-Prone Properties
- OSHA Investigating Collapse of Boston Power Plant; Builder Pauses All Projects in City
- Safety Insurance Net Income Plummets as Auto Claims, Inflation Take Toll
- New Hampshire Hotel Damaged by Fire Had Smoke Alarms, Heat Detectors
- Ouch. Massachusetts Worker Shoulders Burden of Injury Omitted From Lump Sum
- New York City Launches $4M Traffic Safety Campaign
- Woman Says Amazon.com Fired Her Because She Got ‘Long Covid’ – Lawsuit
- Massachusetts Settles With 5 Nursing Homes Over Patient Neglect Claims
- Jury Awards $15M in Wrongful Death of University of Virginia Lacrosse Player
- Death of Boston Subway Patron Blamed on Faulty Door System
- People Moves: Oberg Joins S&S Marine; UFG Surety Adds Kyner, Virginia Office
- Report Blasts Head of Massachusetts Care Center Where 76 Veterans Died From COVID
- Investigation Underway Into Fire That Ravaged Popular New Hampshire Hotel
- New Jersey Court Upholds State Regulator in Dispute With Applied Underwriters
- Connecticut Legislators Pass Consumer Data Privacy ‘Bill of Rights’
- Help Wanted as New York City Implements Law Requiring Salary Ranges in Job Ads
- Vermont Financial Regulator Pieciak to Leave Post
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