Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Top 10 Stories of the Year – East
Dec 24 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...
Flooded Maine family blames faulty federal maps
Dec 24 2006 // A family devastated by the Mother’s Day flood that inundated their home along the Mousam River in Kennebunk, Maine, says errors in federal maps prompted them to forgo the purchase of flood insurance, a decision that...
Court Upholds Worker’s Claim Under Maine Medical Leave Act
Dec 22 2006 // A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Maine car salesman who says he was unjustly fired while taking medical leave that should have been protected by state law. The 1st U.S Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday...
The One That Didn’t Get Away: Maine Man Trapped By Lobsters
Dec 21 2006 // Crustaceans and clams starred as unlikely informants in a workers’ compensation fraud case in Hancock County, Maine. An almost three-year case of “something’s fishy” finally ended this week with the...
Maine Lawmaker in Drive to Jail Repeat Drunk Drivers
Dec 19 2006 // This year, the target for Maine lawmakers in Augusta was habitual offenders. Next year, it’ll be repeat drunken drivers. State Sen. Bill Diamond was a sponsor of Tina’s Law, which was signed into law earlier...
Maine’s Iuppa Joins Zurich as Government Affairs Head
Dec 15 2006 // Zurich Financial Services Group has appointed Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa as head of Government and Industry Affairs for General Insurance, and as chief government affairs officer, North America....
Maine Regulator Wake Receives National Award
Dec 12 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners presented Robert Wake, staff attorney for the Maine Bureau of Insurance, with the Robert Dineen Award, the association’s most prestigious individual honor. Wake...
Northeast Bank Acquires Another Maine Insurance Agency
Dec 7 2006 // On the heels of the recently announced Palmer Insurance Agency acquisition, Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maine-based Northeast Bank, has acquired a second insurance agency in less than...
Maine Insurance Chief Iuppa Stepping Down in January
Dec 6 2006 // Maine Superintendent of Insurance Alessandro Iuppa has announced his intention to step down from his position effective Jan. 13, 2007. “After 20 years, including 13 in Maine, in the insurance regulatory community it...
Flooded Maine Family Blames Error in Federal Maps
Dec 6 2006 // A family devastated by the Mother’s Day flood that inundated their home along the Mousam River in Kennebunk, Maine says errors in federal maps prompted them to forgo the purchase of flood insurance, a decision that...
Study: St. George, Utah Ranked Most Secure Place To Live
Dec 5 2006 // According to the third annual “Most Secure U.S. Places to Live” rankings from Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, the most secure location to live in the United States is St. George, Utah. The rankings,...
Northeast Bank Acquires Maine’s Palmer Agency
Dec 4 2006 // The insurance subsidiary of Northeast Bank, Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc. has acquired the Palmer Insurance Agency of Turner, Maine. Palmer has six employees and generated $4 million in gross premiums over the past...
Maine Nursing Home Vows to Correct Deficiencies Including Surety Bond
Nov 22 2006 // The administrator of a Canton nursing home said a plan to address “serious deficiencies” cited by state overseers has been submitted to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. The filing follows an...
Maine Court Allows Suit Against Firm Over Employee’s Fatal Crash
Oct 26 2006 // Maine’s highest court this week reinstated a lawsuit targeting VIP Inc. over a fatal collision caused by one of its employees, but Chief Justice Leigh Saufley criticized the ruling as harmful to the state’s...
Bar Harbor, Maine Braces for More Quake Aftershocks
Oct 25 2006 // Additional aftershocks are possible in the days and weeks ahead after a series of four small earthquakes shook the BBar Harbor, Maine area last Sunday. The tremors were normal aftershock activity from an Oct. 2 quake with...
No Change in Maine Workers’ Comp Premiums for 2007
Oct 20 2006 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance confirmed that typical workers compensation premiums will not be going up for 2007. The department reported that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) will not be filing a...
A year past Katrina: What has been learned?
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, everyone is also...
People and Places
Sep 25 2006 // Miami insurance agent Alex Soto has been inaugurated as the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with Robert E. Fulwider and C. Brett Nilsson assuming the...
A year past Katrina: What has been learned?
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, all of us are also...
A year past Katrina: What has been learned?
Sep 25 2006 // Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, all of us are also...
