Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Top Aide to Maine Governor Resigns
Apr 18 2011 // Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s communications director resigned Saturday, a day after a newspaper reported he was facing possible foreclosure on five buildings, including an apartment house destroyed by arson. Dan Demeritt...
Report Tallies Economic Costs of Violence to States
Apr 6 2011 // States with the most violence are spending billions of dollars on medical care and prisons and recording lower productivity than more peaceful states, according to a new study on the effects of peace and violence on the...
People
Apr 4 2011 // Maine-based workers’ comp insurer The MEMIC Group has promoted Michael P. Bourque to senior vice president for external affairs. Bourque joined MEMIC in 1995 and was appointed vice president for corporate marketing...
Maine Couple Loses Lawsuit Against Cement Company
Mar 29 2011 // A Maine couple has lost its lawsuit against Dragon Cement claiming the company’s cement plant made their nearby home unsellable. In their lawsuit, Stephen and Kathy Darney of Thomaston claimed Dragon caused a...
Former NAIC Pres. Atchinson to Head Geneva Ass’n. Institutional Relations
Mar 25 2011 // The Geneva Association, an important international insurance think tank, announced that Brian Atchinson has been appointed as Acting Head of Institutional Relations. He is a former President of the National Association of...
My New Markets
Mar 21 2011 // Behavioral Health Care Market Detail: Negley Associates is underwriting manager for A+XV Rated carrier. Coverages include workers’ comp, professional and general liability, directors and officers (including EPLI),...
Business Chief to Stay on in Maine Cabinet
Mar 16 2011 // Gov. Paul LePage is keeping Anne Head in his Cabinet as commissioner of the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. Head, of Yarmouth, was appointed by former Gov. John Baldacci in August 2008. LePage said...
Maine Gets Break in Federal Health Care Overhaul
Mar 10 2011 // The federal government has granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Obama’s health care overhaul, citing the likelihood that enforcement could destabilize the state’s market for individual health...
Maine Regulators Recovered $3.5 Million Last Year
Mar 3 2011 // Maine insurance regulators say they recovered nearly $3.5 million for insurance consumers whose claims were underpaid in the state last year More than $1.5 million was recovered for consumers by the Bureau’s Property...
Most Beaches from Maine to Virginia Found to Be Eroding
Feb 25 2011 // A survey of hundreds of miles of New England and mid-Atlantic coastline found that 68 percent of the beaches studied have eroded during the past 150 years, according to a report released this week. The average rate of...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2011 // Hylant Group, Swartzel Affiliated Ohio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant Group, and property/casualty insurance services provider Swartzel Affiliated Insurance Agency have merged. The companies’ announcement said the...
Business Moves
Jan 24 2011 // Encharter Massachusetts-based Encharter Insurance agency will open a fifth branch office, the latest in Simsbury, Connecticut. Encharter will sell personal lines coverage throughout the Farmington Valley, the agency said....
Captivated By Potential
Jan 24 2011 // Northeast State Have Uneven Success Attracting Captives States across the Northeast continue to look at captive insurance companies as a potential source of new business — and tax revenue — but the continued growth of...
Ohio Mutual Completes Acquisition of Casco Indemnity
Jan 11 2011 // Ohio Mutual Insurance Group (OMIG) has confirmed that its previously announced acquisition of Maine-based Casco Indemnity Company is complete. The transaction officially closed on Jan. 1, 2011. Casco Indemnity will be...
Maine Licenses Two New Insurers
Jan 6 2011 // Maine has licensed two new workers’ comp insurers, one of them a new company that will begin writing this month, the state insurance department said. The first, Great Falls, which will begin offering policies this...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Market Remains Competitive: Report
Jan 5 2011 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market. Also, availability does not...
Maine Governor Seeks Disaster Assessment from Storm
Dec 31 2010 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci is requesting a damage assessment for the torrential rainstorm that deluged eastern Maine earlier this month. The Dec. 12 storm dropped 6 to 8 inches of rain in places, washing out local roads,...
Maine Reporter Sues Ski Area over Accident
Dec 29 2010 // A newspaper reporter is suing a Maine ski area two years after breaking her back while riding inside a giant ball down a ski trail for a story. Rebekah Metzler, of Brunswick, worked for the Sun Journal of Lewiston in June...
Maine Man Wants Coffee Shop Arson Trial Moved
Nov 29 2010 // A 49-year-old Maine man charged with burning down a topless coffee shop wants his trial moved. Raymond Bellavance claims pretrial publicity will make it too hard to find an unbiased jury in Kennebec County. Bellavance is...
Two Maine Fires Blamed on Smoking Around Oxygen
Nov 14 2010 // Fire investigators are warning of the dangers of smoking around oxygen tanks after two fires in southern Maine. According to the state fire marshal’s office, two separate fires earlier this month in southern Maine...
