Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maine State Worker Guilty of Workers Comp Fraud
Sep 20 2012 // A state Transportation Department worker has been convicted of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of workers compensation benefits by doing strenuous activities at his home when he was supposedly too hurt to...
Maine Regulator Highlights New App for Motorists
Sep 10 2012 // Maine’s top insurance regulator is highlighting a new mobile app that can help motorists take the guesswork out of auto accidents. Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa said last month that a new...
Maine Regulator Highlights New App That Helps Motorists in Accidents
Aug 30 2012 // Maine’s top insurance regulator is highlighting a new mobile application that can help motorists take the guesswork out of auto accidents. Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa said this week that a new...
3 Maine Agencies Included in State’s Annual ‘Best Places to Work’ List
Aug 28 2012 // Three independent insurance agencies in Maine have made the state’s seventh annual “Best Places to Work in Maine” list. The list is published by the Maine State Council of the Society for Human Resources...
Report: OSHA Fines Maine Company in Worker’s Death
Aug 21 2012 // A news report says an Augusta, Maine, construction company has been cited for violations and fined in the death of an employee after a house collapsed. Morning Sentinel reports that the Occupational Safety and Health...
Number of Highway Deaths in Maine Up 50% Over Last Year
Aug 15 2012 // Public safety officials say the number of highway deaths in Maine is up 50 percent over last year. The Bureau of Highway Safety says 97 people have died on Maine roads so far this year as of last Friday, August 10. At the...
Maine-Based Cross Insurance Forms Partnership With Kraft Sports Group
Aug 8 2012 // The Kraft Sports Group in Massachusetts said this week it has named Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Bangor, Maine-based Cross Financial Corp., as its official insurance brokerage firm.Under the deal, Cross Insurance will...
Maine-Based MEMIC Group Names Communications Production Manager
Jul 26 2012 // The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer headquartered in Portland, Maine, has promoted Kelly Barden to the new position of communications production manager.Kelly BardenIn her new role, she will oversee and...
Maine-Based Insurance Firm Buys Naming Rights to New Bangor Arena
Jul 23 2012 // The City of Bangor, Maine, announced last Friday that its new 8,000-seat multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue currently under construction will be named the Cross Insurance Center as a result of a new, long-term...
Maine Advises Residents to Assess Storm Risks, Review Flood Insurance
Jul 11 2012 // Maine’s top insurance regulator is advising state residents to assess the risks associated with severe weather, and take steps to protect themselves and their property. Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa...
Homeowners’ Complaints About Bears Soaring Across Maine
Jul 9 2012 // Maine wildlife officials say the number of complaints about bears has more than doubled so far this year. Officials say between Jan. 1 and July 3, the Maine Warden Service had received 542 complaints from the public about...
Maine Gov. LePage Attacks Supreme Court’s Healthcare Ruling
Jul 9 2012 // Maine Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address this past Saturday to attack the Supreme Court’s decision that upheld the president’s health care law. He also described the Internal Revenue Service as the...
Maine Man Sentenced for Insurance Theft
Jun 11 2012 // A Maine man recently convicted of federal gun charges has pleaded no contest in state court to insurance fraud charges for burning down his house. Joseph T. Smith of Township 6 pleaded no contest last week to a charge of...
Maine-Based WC Insurer MEMIC Group Hires 2 Senior Underwriters
Jun 7 2012 // The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer headquartered in Portland, Maine, has appointed two senior underwriters: Mark Darragh for New Jersey and surrounding areas operations and Katrinka Casamassa for...
Average Approved WC Loss-Cost Change +2.8% in Northeast in 2012
May 21 2012 // The workers’ comp loss-costs are continuing to go up in most Northeastern states, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. Based in Boca Raton, Fla., NCCI analyzes industry trends, prepares...
Maine Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Signed Into Law
May 7 2012 // A new Maine bill that brings wide-ranging changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system was signed into law last month. The bill, signed into law by Maine Gov. Paul LePage, is called An Act to Review and...
Settlement Reached in Maine Class-Action Disability Lawsuit
May 4 2012 // A federal judge in Maine has approved a settlement in a class action lawsuit on behalf of 40 people with long-term disabilities who wanted opportunities to live outside nursing homes. District Judge Nancy Torreson on...
Federal Lawsuit Targets MaineCare Cuts
Apr 24 2012 // A new federal lawsuit targets a rollback of MaineCare benefits supported by Maine Gov. Paul LePage that eliminated health care coverage for hundreds of legal immigrants living in the state. The lawsuit filed last week by...
Maine Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Signed Into Law
Apr 24 2012 // A new Maine bill that brings wide-ranging changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system was signed into law last week. The bill, signed into law by Maine Gov. Paul LePage, is called An Act to Review and...
Maine Businessman Gets 2 1/2-Year Prison Term for Insurance Fraud
Apr 24 2012 // The owner of a Kittery, Maine, medical equipment supply company has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for health care fraud and for lying on an application for a loan from the U.S. Small Business...
