Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Top Insurance Stories in 2007 in East
Dec 31 2007 // New leaders tackled old issues and the region battled fire and rain. 1. No day at the beach Insurance markets for coastal properties continued to challenge insurers, agents, policymakers and property owners, despite an...
OSHA To Investigate Maine Mill Accident
Dec 21 2007 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate an accident at an Irving Forest Products lumber mill in Dixfield, Maines where a worker lost part of his right hand. J.D. Irving spokeswoman Mary Keith...
Maine’s Hyler Agency is Northeast Bank’s 6th Acquisition Within Year
Dec 12 2007 // Maine’s Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lewiston-based Northeast Bank, continues to grow its footprint in Maine, this time in Thomaston, with the purchase of Hyler Agency. The Hyler...
Maine’s Bath Iron Works Faces Fine
Dec 3 2007 // Federal regulators have proposed that Bath Iron Works be fined $441,500 for violating safety standards at its shipyard in Bath, Maine. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said an inspection that began June 4...
Maine’s Northeast Bank Finalizes Deal for Spence & Mathews
Dec 3 2007 // Spence & Mathews Insurance is the latest insurance agency to join Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maine-based Northeast Bank. Founded in 1935, Spence & Mathews has 16 employees...
Maine’s Northeast Bank Insurance to Buy Spence & Matthews
Nov 14 2007 // Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lewiston, Me.-based Northeast Bank, has agreed to purchase Spence & Mathews Insurance. The deal is slated to close on November 30, 2007. Founded in...
Maine Town Tightens Rules for Public Gathering Permits
Nov 9 2007 // Voters in Kennebunkport, Maine have tightened restrictions for issuing mass-gathering permits after three large peace demonstrations over the past two summers. The revisions approved on Election Day shift responsibility...
Weekend’s Hurricane Noel Spares Northeast Coast Serious Damage
Nov 5 2007 // High wind and heavy surf hit parts of the Northeast U.S. coast as the remnants of Hurricane Noel blustered northeastward across the open Atlantic. The wind and rain caused some coastal flooding, brought down tree limbs and...
Maine Workers’ Compensation Insurers File for 2.2% Decrease
Nov 2 2007 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance, an advisory rating organization for companies that offer workers’ comp insurance, is asking state regulators for an average rate decrease of 2.2 percent in Maine next...
Maine Jury Awards $8 Million for Hospital, Midwife Malpractice
Oct 29 2007 // A jury in Auburn, Maine last week awarded nearly $8 million to a brain-damaged 5-year-old boy and his mother in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a Lewiston hospital and one of its midwives. The verdict in favor of...
Survey: MMG of Maine Named Best Ease of Doing Business Performer
Oct 23 2007 // More than 8,000 independent agents and brokers assessed the performance of over 220 property and casualty carriers in Deep Customer Connections Inc.’s (DCC) 5th annual Ease of Doing Business (EDB) survey. MMG...
Do Medical Malpractice Screening Panels Lower Costs or Save Time?
Oct 14 2007 // A two-year-old New Hampshire law that was supposed to speed up the processing of medical malpractice lawsuits has slowed things down instead. The law created special screening panels designed to encourage people to settle...
Evidence v. Emotion: How Medical Malpractice Screening Panels Work
Oct 12 2007 // Not all medical injuries are malpractice. “It’s not easy to tell a patient, ‘You have a harm but it’s not anybody’s fault,”‘ says Marilyn Ashcroft, a medical injury screening panel...
Maine laws on bike helmets, seat belts, teens’ cell phone use
Oct 8 2007 // Like other driving instructors across Maine, Dwight Hawkins has a new lesson to add to his course this fall: If you’re under 18 and behind the wheel, lose the cell phone. As of Sept. 20, a new Maine law will prohibit...
Maine cop hit by stolen police car covered
Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Maine laws on bike helmets, seat belts, teens’ cell phone use
Oct 8 2007 // Like other driving instructors across Maine, Dwight Hawkins has a new lesson to add to his course this fall: If you’re under 18 and behind the wheel, lose the cell phone. As of Sept. 20, a new Maine law will prohibit...
Maine cop hit by stolen police car covered
Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Oct 8 2007 // People The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins...
Maine-based Workers’ Comp Writer MEMIC on the March– Now in 42 States
Oct 3 2007 // MEMIC Indemnity Co., a member of The MEMIC Group, has recently earned authorization to write workers’ compensation insurance in Rhode Island, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado. The MEMIC Group can now offer...
Maine Court: Deputy Injured by Own Police Car Covered by Personal Policy
Sep 25 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
