Latest Maine Headlines
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State Commissioners Elect Maine’s Iuppa as President
Dec 19 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president. They also elected regulators from Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico to key positions at...
In Chicago, State Commissioners Elect Maine’s Iuppa as President
Dec 19 2005 // In Chicago, State Commissioners Elect Maine’s Iuppa as President Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president at their winter...
State Commissioners Elect Maine’s Iuppa as President
Dec 18 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president. They also elected regulators from Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico to key positions at...
In Chicago, State Commissioners Elect Maine’s Iuppa as President
Dec 18 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa as president at their winter meeting in Chicago. In other business, the NAIC awarded the insurance...
Maine Allows 1.2% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Starting in Jan.
Dec 15 2005 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance has modified the request of the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance for an average 1.8 percent increase in workers’ compensation rates for policy year 2006 to 1.2...
Insurers Respond to Maine Uninsured Motorist Coverage Report
Dec 13 2005 // Maine’s Bureau of Insurance has characterized legislation drafted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies to correct a state Supreme Judicial Court decision regarding mandated uninsured motorist...
National Assoc. of Insurance Commissioners Elects Officers
Dec 8 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected regulators from Maine, Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico as the organization’s 2006 officers during the Association’s Winter National...
Business Moves
Dec 4 2005 // TD Banknorth, Boothby & Bartlett TD Banknorth Inc. is expanding its insurance presence in central Maine by purchasing Boothby & Bartlett Company, a community insurance agency in Waterville, Maine. The acquisition...
Health Insurers Appeal Maine Universal Health Plan Funding
Nov 30 2005 // A health insurance industry group this week appealed a state regulatory decision that provides a critical source of funding for Maine’s Dirigo universal health insurance program. The Maine Association of Health Plans...
TD Banknorth Buying Central Maine’s Boothby & Barlett Insurance Agency
Nov 28 2005 // TD Banknorth Inc. announced is expanding its insurance presence in central Maine by purchasing Boothby & Bartlett Company, a community insurance agency in Waterville, Maine. The acquisition is scheduled to close in...
Injured Maine Engineer’s $5M Jury Award Reduced to $3.25M
Nov 28 2005 // A federal jury has awarded a former marine engineer from Waterville, Maine whose fall on the job left him a paraplegic more than $5 million, but then reduced the award after determining his negligence was a factor in the...
Maine Business Owner Gets Jail for Falsifying Fire Extinguisher Tests
Nov 28 2005 // The owner of a fire equipment company in Buxton, Maine has been sentenced in U.S. District Court to two months imprisonment for his role in falsifying fire extinguisher tests. Dale Nason, 49, who pleaded guilty last summer...
Maine Employers Mutual Rewards Employers with $4 Million in Dividends
Nov 8 2005 // This week, Maine’s largest workers’ compensation insurer Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company (MEMIC) is mailing $4 million in dividends to its policyholders for performance in 2002. More than 19,500...
Maine Dirigo Found to Save $44 Million; Governor Claims Victory
Nov 1 2005 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci has applauded a ruling by Maine’s top insurance regulator that found $43.7 million in first-year savings from Dirigo Health, a state-subsidized program designed to provide health coverage to...
Cloutier Joins TD Banknorth Insurance’s Maine Office
Oct 26 2005 // Patricia L. Cloutier has joined TD Banknorth Insurance Group in South Portland, Maine as an account manager for employee benefits lines. She will provide a range of services to employee benefits clients throughout...
Katrina Prompts States to Review Their Disaster Playbooks
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
Katrina Prompts States to Review Their Disaster Playbooks
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
Thousands of Me. Drivers’ Licenses Suspended Mutliple Times
Aug 10 2005 // Nearly 7 percent of Maine drivers have had their licenses suspended five or more times, and more than 23,000 have had their licenses suspended at least 10 times, according to state estimates. There are about 984,000 people...
Gregg has held a number of executive positions within Liberty Mutual’s commercial insurance operations since joining the
Jul 18 2005 // OneBeacon Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd., announced that Mike Miller, its current chief operating officer, has been appointed president and chief executive officer....
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Jul 18 2005 // Mike Miller OneBeacon Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd., announced that Mike Miller, its current chief operating officer, has been appointed president and chief executive...
