Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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....
People & Places
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...
National Alliance Names Outstanding CSRs; Awards CIC, CISR Scholarships
Jul 18 2005 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, headquartered in Austin, Texas, started out the summer of 2005 with a bang–handing out a basketful of honors and awards. In late June the insurance and...
National Alliance Names Outstanding CSRs; Awards CIC, CISR Scholarships
Jul 18 2005 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, headquartered in Austin, Texas, started out the summer of 2005 with a bang-handing out a basketful of honors and awards. In late June the insurance and risk...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Romney Would Require Insurance: Gov. Mitt Romney would require every person in the state to have health insurance under his plan for universal health coverage, which he has dubbed the Safety Net Care...
N.H. Approves Pre-Trial Medical Malpractice Screening Panel
Jun 14 2005 // New Hampshire lawmakers have approved pretrial screening panels in medical malpractice lawsuits in hopes of controlling rising insurance costs for doctors. Many argued doctors are being driven from the state by the rising...
NAMIC: Statutory Remedies to Curb Fraud Abuse Spreading Across U.S.
May 25 2005 // To combat insurance fraud that costs consumers an average of $200-300 per year, 40 states have established entities responsible for oversight of related investigations and prosecution efforts, according to an analysis by...
Committee Votes to Carry Over AIA-Opposed Maine Premium Tax Increase
May 13 2005 // The Joint Labor Committee of the Maine state legislature has voted to carry over a proposal (LD 1021) opposed by the American Insurance Association that would increase the premium tax by 25 percent. This measure would...
AIA Urges Lawmakers to Defeat Maine Premium Tax Increase
May 5 2005 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) is urging Maine lawmakers to reject a proposal (LD 1021) that would increase the premium tax by 25 percent. “This tax increase would damage the state’s economy by making...
GAY RIGHTS BILL BECOMES LAW:
Apr 18 2005 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed into law a bill to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination, making Maine the sixth and final New England state to do so. “This act not only offers essential civil rights, but...
Insurers Blast Maine Premium Tax Hike
Apr 7 2005 // The Maine Joint Committee on Labor, acting in a work session, has approved a bill to increase the state’s premium tax on several property/casualty insurance lines from 2 percent to 2.5 percent in order to fund...
AIA Says No to Maine Premium Tax Increase
Apr 5 2005 // The proposal to increase the Maine property/casualty premium tax by 25 percent would make the state less competitive and increase insurance costs for consumers, the American Insurance Association (AIA) said Tuesday in...
Maine Gay Rights Bill Signed Into Law
Apr 3 2005 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed into law a bill to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination, making Maine the sixth and final New England state to do so. “This act not only offers essential civil rights, but...
N.H. Weighs Single Judge Med-Mal Screening
Mar 31 2005 // New Hampshire state senators seem more interested in a House plan to address the cost of medical malpractice insurance than a bill from one of their own. The proposal before the Senate Judiciary Committee is based on a...
BENEFIT MANAGERS’ DISCLOSURE BACKED:
Feb 21 2005 // A federal judge has sided with the state of Maine in an industry challenge to the constitutionality of a state law that requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose side payments from drug companies and other financial...
Nations Hazard Insurer Leaves Nationwide Trail
Feb 21 2005 // Even though his files have been stored in the department’s archives since the case was transferred to federal investigators more than a year ago, Ted Bader still keeps tabs on Michael Napadow and Nations Hazard...
