Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The MEMIC Group Promotes Pitts to Associate Underwriter in New Hampshire
Jul 13 2018 // To support continued growth within the New Hampshire market, Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Douglass Pitts to associate underwriter. Before joining The...
Maine, EPA, Tribes Spar Over Water Quality Rules
Jul 10 2018 // The state of Maine is locked in a legal battle with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a pair of American Indian tribes about the way clean water standards apply in and around tribal lands. Maine is arguing in...
Maine Governor Vetoes Bills, Calls for Minimum Wage Slowdown
Jul 6 2018 // Maine’s Republican governor has vetoed bills ranging from insurance coverage for hearing aids to help for homeless opioid users. Gov. Paul LePage vetoed 13 bills Tuesday. Lawmakers are set to return Monday facing...
Maine Employers Are Not Required to Reimburse Employees for Medical Marijuana Use
Jul 2 2018 // The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that employers in the state are not required to reimburse employees for their use of medical marijuana under the Maine workers’ compensation system because federal law preempts state...
Declarations
Jul 2 2018 // Medical Marijuana “Prosecuted or not, the fact remains that Twin Rivers would be forced to commit a federal crime if it complied with the directive of the Workers’ Compensation Board.” — Maine...
Missouri Brewing Company Wins Trademark Lawsuit Brought by Maine Brewer
Jun 28 2018 // A judge has ruled in favor of a Missouri-based brewery in a lawsuit alleging the company copied the name and can design of a Maine-based brewery’s signature export ale. U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled in...
Maine Employers Are Not Required to Reimburse Employees for Medical Marijuana Use
Jun 19 2018 // The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that employers in the state are not required to reimburse employees for their use of medical marijuana under the Maine workers’ compensation system because federal law preempts state...
More Employers Adopting ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy for Marijuana Use
Jun 18 2018 // FPI Management, a property company in California, wants to hire dozens of people. Factories from New Hampshire to Michigan need workers. Hotels in Las Vegas are desperate to fill jobs. Those employers and many others are...
Maine Individual Insurers Seek Nine Percent Rate Hike
Jun 11 2018 // Two insurers on Maine’s individual health insurance market are requesting lower-than-expected rate increases for 2019. Portland Press Herald reports the insurers are requesting average rate increases of over 9...
People
May 21 2018 // Woodruff Sawyer has expanded its New England office’s leadership structure due to growth it has seen in the past two years. As part of this initiative, it has positioned its three leaders in roles that designed to...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Hires Heal, Promotes Flaherty and Wintle
May 15 2018 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-based workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Lara Heal to director of Managed Care Services as well as promoted Karen Flaherty to director of Financial Operations and...
Landlord in Fatal Maine Apartment Fire to Pay $300K Settlement
May 14 2018 // A landlord who was sentenced to prison following a fire that killed six people in Maine has agreed to pay close to $300,000 in settlements to the victims’ families. The Bangor Daily News reports Gregory Nisbet will...
Maine’s MEMIC Appoints Parks as Safety Management Consultant
May 8 2018 // MEMIC, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Barrett Parks to the position of safety management consultant. Parks has worked as a logger, equipment operator, technical high...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Promotes Carmody to Northeast Claims Director
Mar 16 2018 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Michael Carmody to claims director of the northeast region, which includes MEMIC’s New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York offices. Carmody began...
Milliman Hires Moore as a LAD Consultant in Its Maine Office
Mar 7 2018 // Milliman Inc., a global consulting and actuarial firm, has hired Samie Moore to its Health & Welfare group as an end-to-end life, absence and disability (LAD) consultant. Moore, formerly of Mercer and Hewitt, is an...
Workers’ Comp Could Bring Savings for Maine Businesses
Feb 26 2018 // Maine businesses could save as much as $27 million this year thanks to a projected decline in workers’ compensation insurance claims. Maine Superintendent of Insurance Eric Cioppa said he approved a 12 percent...
Casino Backers Sue Maine Commission Over $500K Fine
Jan 26 2018 // The backers of a failed multimillion-dollar campaign to build a third casino in Maine are suing the state ethics commission over a $500,000 fine. The Portland Press Herald reports casino entrepreneur Shawn Scott’s...
ACORD Names Maine’s The MEMIC Group Top Workers’ Comp Company in U.S.
Jan 25 2018 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation carrier, has been ranked the top workers’ compensation company in the U.S. by the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and...
The MEMIC Group Promotes Cavallaro to Production Underwriter Based in Georgia
Jan 19 2018 // To support growth within the Georgia market, workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has announced the promotion of Ben Cavallaro to the position of production underwriter. A native of Portland, Maine, and...
Maine Gas Station Fuel Mishap Leads to Damaged Vehicles
Jan 19 2018 // Some drivers in Maine say their vehicles were damaged when they purchased fuel that was in the wrong pumps at a gas station. The Kennebec Journal reports all of the drivers filled their tanks at a Mobil station in...
