Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Catholic Diocese Challenges Maine Law Allowing Older Sex Abuse Claims
Jan 10 2023 // PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is challenging a Maine law that eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse, allowing a wave of new lawsuits. A motion in the first of the...
Maine’s New Laws Address PFAS, Minimum Wage, Pay for Unused Vacation
Jan 4 2023 // Minimum wage earners will see a pay increase and employers will have to pay departing employees for unused vacation time under laws taking effect Jan. 1 in Maine. Maine’s minimum wage will increase from $12.75 to...
Highway Fatalities Top 170 in Maine
Dec 29 2022 // Maine is likely to finish the year with its highest number of highway fatalities in 15 years, as a pandemic trend of speeding and reckless driving continues across the state, officials said. The unofficial number of...
Lawsuits Alleging Maine Church Knew About Sex Abuse Now Number 14
Dec 23 2022 // Two more people have filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by a Roman Catholic clergy member and a nun — both deceased — raising the number to over a dozen since Maine loosened the statute of limitations last year. One...
Maine Catholic Church Hit With More Sex Abuse Claims Under Revised Law
Dec 12 2022 // Four people in Maine have filed lawsuits with claims that they were sexually abused by Catholic priests as children. Three men sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland on Thursday in Cumberland County Superior Court....
Maine Jury Awards Ex-Trooper $300,000 in Whistleblower Case
Dec 6 2022 // A jury in Maine awarded a now-retired state trooper $300,000 Friday after finding that the state police retaliated against him when he raised concerns about the agency’s intelligence gathering work. George Loder, 53,...
Maine Retreats on Ban on Sales of Pre-Rolled Medical Marijuana Products
Nov 22 2022 // Maine is backing down from some of its guidance for the medical marijuana industry by allowing the sale of pre-rolled products to resume. The Maine Office of Cannabis Policy last month banned medical marijuana caregivers...
Black Medical Worker Awarded $3 Million in Maine Racial Discrimination Case
Nov 7 2022 // A federal jury has awarded $3 million to a former Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center worker who said racial discrimination led to his firing. Attorneys for David Ako-Annan, who is Black, said the damages...
Maine’s ‘Cabin Masters’ Settles Lead Safety Claims
Oct 20 2022 // The company featured on the cable TV show “Maine Cabin Masters” has settled claims that it violated lead safety and exposure rules on some of its renovations. The settlement reached by the U.S. Environmental...
Storm Batters Maine Coastal Communities
Oct 17 2022 // A storm packing strong winds and heavy rain lashed the New England coast on Friday with the greatest impact in Maine, where more than 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. The storm brought a gust of 72 mph (116 kph),...
Maine Supreme Court Sets Reasonable Evidentiary Standard In Failure to Procure Insurance Case
Oct 17 2022 // Insurance agents and brokers are often sued by clients for allegedly failing to procure for the client coverage that met the client’s needs. In determining the agent’s culpability, an essential question is...
Chemical Plant Owner to Pay $187M for Maine River Pollution Cleanup
Oct 13 2022 // PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The owner of a former chemical plant that dumped mercury into the Penobscot River must pay at least $187 million to remove the contamination in a resolution to a decades-long legal battle. A...
Maine Opts Out of $440M Multistate Settlement With Juul
Sep 26 2022 // Maine has opted out of a $440 million multistate settlement with electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs in objection to certain conditions. Maine would have received roughly $11 million over six to 10 years under the...
Maine Privacy Law Survives Challenge by Internet Service Providers
Sep 8 2022 // One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard. Maine created one of the...
Despite Supreme Court Win, Most Maine Religious Schools Shun State Funding
Sep 1 2022 // Parents of children enrolled in Maine religious schools fought for years — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — for the state to treat tuition reimbursements the same as other private schools. But only one of the...
Maine Clinic’s Failure to Note Child Abuse Leads to $8M Settlement
Aug 24 2022 // BANGOR, Maine — The federal government will pay $8 million to settle a claim that a federally funded clinic failed to alert a mother or authorities of signs of abuse of a 6-month-old boy. Alexandria Orduna, of Brewer,...
Cross Insurance Acquires Maine Insurance Agency
Aug 12 2022 // Cross Insurance reported it has acquired Maine Insurance Agency of Portland. The acquisition of Maine Insurance Agency, a fifth-generation family-owned business, expands the coastal region division of Cross. Founded in...
Truck Driver Reaches Agreement in Maine Fatal Accident Caused by Dislodged Tire
Aug 3 2022 // A truck driver is expected to accept responsibility for causing the death of a state police detective who was struck by a dislodged tire as he was assisting a driver alongside Interstate 95. Scott Willett, 55, of Patten,...
People Moves: Hilb Names CEO at Choice Financial; Crum & Forster Appoints Kovalsky to Credit Team; Cross Insurance Welcomes Randlett as Counsel
Jul 29 2022 // Hilb Group Founder Takes Helm at Choice Financial Virginia insurance agency Choice Financial Group has appointed insurance veteran Robert J. Hilb as chief executive officer following the retirement of J. Richard Braun,...
Court Says Health Care Workers Suing Maine Governor Must Reveal Identities
Jul 12 2022 // Nine health care workers who sued Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have until Money to reveal their identities. The workers have so far remained anonymous, but on Thursday,...
