Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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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...
TD Banknorth Agency Promotes 5
Sep 22 2006 // Maine-based TD Banknorth Insurance Agency, Inc. announced several personnel moves, including the promotion of Ellen L. Dupuis to senior vice president in the Personal Insurance Division in South Portland, Maine. As a...
Maine Jury Awards Widow $4.2M in Forklift Death
Aug 31 2006 // A federal jury has awarded $4.2 million to a Sanford woman whose 48-year-old husband was killed three years ago in a workplace accident involving a forklift truck, but the amount she stands to receive will be considerably...
In Maine, Wrongful Death Suit Blames Forklift Design
Aug 22 2006 // The family of a Sanford man killed in an industrial accident blames the manufacturer of a forklift for a design that allowed the man to become pinned when he backed up under a shelving unit. An inexpensive adaptation could...
Ward is New ACE ME/NA Head
Aug 17 2006 // ACE announced from its London office that Giles Ward has been appointed Director of its operations in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), effective from September 16th. He will be based in the newly established...
Maine Judge Upholds State on Dirigo Savings; Appeal Likely
Aug 9 2006 // A Superior Court judge has rejected an appeal of last fall’s decision by Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa that Maine’s Dirigo Health Agency initiatives produced savings of $44 million in the...
Maine Jury Sides with Wendy’s
Aug 6 2006 // A federal jury in Portland, Maine deliberated about 30 minutes before ruling in favor of Wendy’s restaurant chain in a lawsuit filed by a Standish woman who claimed a Wendy’s hamburger made her violently...
Wendy’s Claims Blood Disorder, Not Burger, Sickened Maine Woman
Aug 4 2006 // A Maine woman who claims she was sickened by an undercooked Wendy’s burger says the pain she endured was worse than she remembered when she gave birth. But Wendy’s contends the woman’s illness was likely...
Maine Health Program Savings Estimated to be $34 Million
Jul 24 2006 // Maine’s top insurance regulator said that last year’s savings in the state’s health care system resulting from the politically hot Dirigo universal health care program amounted to $34.3 million. Insurance...
Maine Employers’ Mutual’s Wentworth Speaks Up and Wins
Jun 14 2006 // Speaking up has its rewards. Just ask Debbie Wentowrth. Wentworth of Buxton, who works at Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Co. (MEMIC), won the National Association of Insurance Women’s Communicate with...
Maine Employers Mutual Group’s Rating Affirmed
Jun 13 2006 // Insurance industry analyst A.M. Best this affirmed the rating of the members of The MEMIC Group. According to Best, Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company (MEMIC) and The MEMIC Group remain “A”...
Supreme Court Lets Stand Maine Law Regulating Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Jun 7 2006 // The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a First Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld a state law in Maine regulating the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and requiring them to pass...
New England’s flood recovery
Jun 5 2006 // Residents, business owners and public officials in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and southern Maine faced the daunting task of cleaning up after the worst flooding since the 1930s. The floods came after nearly a week of...
Maine’s Cleaves Named FEMA Director for New England
May 26 2006 // Maine Emergency Management Agency Director Arthur Cleaves is leaving his state post become New England director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Gov. John Baldacci announced Cleaves’ departure last Friday....
Federal Disaster Aid Available for Flood Victims in Mass., N.H. and Maine
May 26 2006 // The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster aid has been made available in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine to help people...
Maine Adopts ATV Regulations
May 10 2006 // All-terrain vehicle operators who trespass or drive recklessly face tougher penalties under a new law that fine-tunes major ATV regulations enacted two years ago. “The number of ATV users continues to grow, and...
