Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
TD Insurance Appoints Nash in Maine Office
Oct 6 2011 // TD Insurance has appointed Karen Nash as assistant vice president and account administration manager in employee benefits in Portland, Maine. Nash will manage a staff of customer service agents who service employer group...
Business Moves
Sep 19 2011 // OneBeacon, Interboro OneBeacon Insurance Group said it is selling its high risk personal auto insurance business, AutoOne, to Interboro Holdings Inc. of New York. AutoOne, formed in 2001, serves the automobile assigned...
Cioppa Nominated to Be Next Maine Insurance Commissioner
Sep 13 2011 // Maine Governor Paul LePage has chosen Eric Cioppa to be the next superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance. Cioppa has been serving as acting superintendent since June when former Superintendent Mila Kofman resigned...
Maine’s Northeast Bancorp Sells Its Insurance Group to 2 Local Agencies
Aug 31 2011 // Lewiston, Maine-based Northeast Bank Insurance Group has been acquired by local agencies in two separate transactions effective Sept. 1. The Varney Agency, of Bangor, Maine, will purchase the assets of nine Northeast Bank...
Highway Deaths in Maine Down for 4th Straight Year
Aug 10 2011 // Highway deaths in Maine are down for the fourth year in a row. The Bureau of Public Safety said 61 people have died on Maine roads so far this year. That’s down from 88 deaths at this time last year. Thirteen...
People
Aug 1 2011 // Wholesaler Swett & Crawford has added Ricky Dawson to its casualty staff in New York. Dawson, who has a background in both insurance wholesale brokerage and underwriting, previously served as a wholesale broker with...
Maine Jury Awards Nursing Student $300K
Jul 19 2011 // A jury has awarded a Maine student $300,000 in a lawsuit she filed against a nursing school that expelled her after she complained of sexual harassment by a male instructor. The InterCoast Career Institute, a...
Maine City Debates Home Fire Sprinkler Mandate
Jul 18 2011 // The debate over whether to mandate fire sprinklers in new homes is heating up in Maine. South Portland City Council is expected to take up the issue later this summer. If it passes, South Portland would join Portland,...
Small Earthquake Felt in Eastern Maine
Jul 18 2011 // A small earthquake across Maine’s Blue Hill peninsula prompted a handful of calls to law enforcement officials, but no damages were reported. According to the Weston Observatory at Boston College, the magnitude 2.3...
Small Earthquake Felt in Eastern Maine
Jul 11 2011 // A small earthquake across Maine’s Blue Hill peninsula prompted a handful of calls to law enforcement officials, but no damages were reported. According to the Weston Observatory at Boston College, the magnitude 2.3...
People
Jul 4 2011 // Anthony A. Ambrose has been promoted to vice president and senior broker at New York-based wholesale broker Russell Bond. Ambrose joined Russell Bond in 1994 and is currently responsible for financial institutions, medical...
Maine Police Brutality Case Settled
Jun 29 2011 // A Maine man is going to get $725,000 as part of a police brutality settlement that was reached as the case was set to go to trial in federal court. Ronald Eaton of Deer Isle had sued several Hancock County and Ellsworth...
How Workers’ Compensation Politics Shut Maine Government 20 Years Ago
Jun 28 2011 // The hallways of Maine’s State House were jammed with irate, screaming protesters, and scores of state workers pitched a tent “union city” in a park across the street. The already cool relations between...
Citi Skimped on ID Theft Protection for Data Breach Victims: Reuters
Jun 24 2011 // After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates. Citigroup, which...
Hall Named Top Exec at Great Falls
Jun 24 2011 // Maine-based Great Falls Insurance Co., a newly licensed insurer specializing workers’ compensation coverage has named Gary Hall as president and CEO. Hall has three decades of insurance experience, with a majority of...
Maine Jury Awards $6.7M in Malpractice Case
Jun 20 2011 // A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an all-terrain vehicle accident. A Penobscot County jury on Monday granted the award to 49-year-old Paula...
Maine Jury Awards $6.7 Million in Hospital Malpractice Case
Jun 16 2011 // A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an all-terrain vehicle accident. A Penobscot County jury granted the award to 49-year-old Paula Braley, of Lee,...
OSHA Proposes $243K Fine for Maine Contractor
Jun 15 2011 // Federal workplace safety officials are proposing that a Lewiston, Maine roofing contractor be fined $243,000 for alleged safety violations at its work sites. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the...
Cioppa Named Acting Superintendent in Maine
Jun 2 2011 // Eric Cioppa will serve as acting superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance, following the departure of Mila Kofman last month. Eric Cioppa Cioppa most recently served as deputy superintendent. He joined the Bureau of...
Maine Superintendent Stepping Down
May 18 2011 // Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman will step down from the Maine Bureau of Insurance at the end of the month. Kofman has served as superintendent since March 2008. Prior to state service, Kofman was on faculty at...
