Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maine Legislative Panel Endorses Kofman to be Insurance Superintendent
Feb 14 2008 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci’s nominee for the open post of Maine insurance superintendent has won the endorsement of a legislative review committee split along party lines. The 8-5 vote by the Insurance and Financial...
Kofman to be Maine Insurance Chief
Feb 10 2008 // Maine Governor John E. Baldacci has nominated Mila Kofman as superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance. Kofman has experience in the academic, government and not-for-profit sectors. She currently serves as Associate...
Trials Set in Fallout from Maine Crash That Killed 6
Feb 6 2008 // Two people charged in connection with a Poland, Maine car crash that killed six people on Christmas Eve 2006 are scheduled to go on trial next month. Twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Brissette of Poland is accused of allowing a...
Third Fire Damages Maine Resort
Feb 1 2008 // The second fire in two weeks and the third within the past year has damaged the Stage Neck Inn at York Harbor, Maine. No injuries were reported in the Wednesday night blaze that broke out in the oceanfront hotel’s...
10 Tips for Mass. Insurance Agents Moving into Competitive Market
Jan 29 2008 // Massachusetts independent agents are facing a challenge to hang onto their whopping 86 percent market share in personal lines as the state embarks upon a new competitive auto insurance system that will bring some of the...
Gov. Balducci Nominates Professor Kofman to be Maine Insurance Chief
Jan 28 2008 // Maine Governor John E. Baldacci has nominated Mila Kofman as superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance. Kofman has experience in the academic, government and not-for-profit sectors. She currently serves as Associate...
Second Fire within Year Damages Upscale Maine Resort
Jan 22 2008 // The Maine fire marshal’s office is investigating a fire at the upscale Stage Neck Inn in York a year after another fire damaged the oceanfront resort hotel. York Village Fire Chief Chris Balentine estimated the...
Maine Study: Suspended Drivers in High Number of Deadly Crashes
Jan 22 2008 // Suspended drivers represent a small minority of all motorists but are involved in a disproportionately large number of serious highway crashes in Maine, the Maine Sunday Telegram reported. After analyzing records from a...
Maine Records Fewest Train-Vehicle Collisions in 20 Years
Jan 14 2008 // Maine recorded four crashes involving trains and motor vehicles in 2007, Maine Operation Lifesaver said. It was the fewest since the nonprofit railroad safety organization started keeping records 20 years ago. The four...
Maine Lawmaker Wants Mandatory Boat Safety Class
Jan 11 2008 // A Maine lawmaker says the state has the highest boating fatality rate in New England, and he wants to do something about it. Rep. Thom Watson of Bath is proposing mandatory, one-time boating safety courses after a year in...
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...
