Latest Massachusetts Headlines
All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts Bans Opioids from Courtrooms Over Exposure Fears
Jan 5 2018 // Massachusetts is banning some powerful opioids from courtrooms, because state court officials are worried people could be sickened by the drugs. The new policy was outlined in a memo to Massachusetts trial court officials...
Top Insurance Journal East Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // As 2017 wraps up, Insurance Journal is looking back on some of its most popular stories of the year while preparing for what is ahead for the insurance industry in 2018. These are just a few of many topics Insurance...
Massachusetts’ Hospitality Insurance Group Names New President and CEO
Dec 19 2017 // Hospitality Insurance Group has named Richard E. Welch Jr. as its new president and CEO. He will assume responsibilities in...
Massachusetts Cannabis Regulators Busy Rolling Out the Rules for Legal Pot
Dec 18 2017 // From “cannabis cafes” to “craft cooperatives,” regulators have been laying out a vision for what a potential multibillion dollar recreational marijuana industry might look like when retail sales...
Massachusetts’ Rogers & Gray Insurance Hires Schaaf as COO
Dec 18 2017 // Rogers & Gray Insurance, a South Dennis, Mass.-headquartered insurance agency, has hired Erin Schaaf as the company’s new chief operating officer. Schaaf brings nearly three decades of experience in the insurance...
Female Workers in Massachusetts Sue McCormick & Schmick’s
Dec 14 2017 // Female kitchen workers at the McCormick & Schmick’s seafood restaurant in downtown Boston were subjected to constant groping and lewd comments from male supervisors and co-workers, and their complaints to the...
Exxon Takes Climate-Change Probe Fight to Massachusetts Top Court
Dec 6 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp urged Massachusetts’ top court on Tuesday to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil...
MAPFRE USA to Exit 5, Focus on 11 States; Sell New York and Life Units in Reorganization
Dec 5 2017 // Insurer MAPFRE USA, which now writes in 19 states, is narrowing its focus by concentrating on 11 key states, exiting five states including selling its New York subsidiary, and selling its life insurance unit. MAPFRE USA...
Anderson Appointed as Commissioner of Massachusetts Division of Insurance
Dec 4 2017 // Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Gary D. Anderson as commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI), a regulatory agency under the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Anderson has served...
Alliant Hires Massachusetts-Based Long to Energy and Marine Group
Dec 1 2017 // Alliant has hired Charlie Long as vice president in its Energy and Marine Group, where he will provide targeted solutions to a growing international client base. Long, based in Boston, Mass., brings 27 years of experience...
Unlicensed Massachusetts Contractor Pleads Guilty to Dozens of Charges
Nov 28 2017 // An unlicensed home improvement contractor who left an elderly woman’s home in ruins has pleaded guilty. The Salem News reports that 49-year-old Jaime Ford’s guilty pleas Monday to 42 charges including larceny,...
Hub International Acquires the Assets of Massachusetts’ Summit
Nov 27 2017 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Summit Financial Corporation and Summit Financial Insurance Agency Inc. (Summit). Terms of the acquisition were not...
Massachusetts SJC Issues Decision in Auto Insurance Dispute
Nov 27 2017 // The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts (SJC) has answered a question regarding the priority of coverage for two automobile insurance policies covering a single motor vehicle accident. In its ruling, the SJC decided...
Some Massachusetts Towns Going to Pot, After All
Nov 21 2017 // They may not be mad about reefer, but a growing number of Massachusetts communities are leaving their borders open to commercial marijuana businesses, bucking a wave of bans and moratoriums that followed voter approval of...
Global Insurer Hiscox Hires Dorr in Massachusetts
Nov 21 2017 // Specialist global insurer Hiscox has appointed Glenn Dorr as head of business development and broker relationships for North America within its London market business. Dorr joins Hiscox from Lloyd’s USA, where he was...
Allstate Sues Former Agent Over EA Agreement in Mass. Federal Court
Nov 20 2017 // Allstate is suing one of its former agents in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging the agent breached a one-year non-compete clause by misusing Allstate’s confidential information...
The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ HR Knowledge
Nov 15 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired HR Knowledge (HRK) in a transaction that became effective November 1, 2017. HRK is THG’s 40th acquisition since it was founded in 2009 and its 10th acquisition this year. Located...
NIF Group Acquires Connecticut’s Agency Intermediaries and Massachusetts’ A.I.I.
Nov 14 2017 // NIF Group Inc. (NIF), a wholesale broker, program administrator and managing general agency, and its parent company JenCap Holdings LLC (JCH) have agreed to acquire privately held Agency Intermediaries Inc. and A.I.I....
Massachusetts Auto Auction Site Where Five Died Fined $267K
Nov 14 2017 // A federal workers’ safety agency is recommending $267,081 in penalties for a Massachusetts auto auction house where five people died when a vehicle suddenly accelerated into a crowd. The Occupational Safety and...
Popular Massachusetts Restaurant Destroyed by Fire
Nov 9 2017 // A fire has destroyed a popular restaurant in Massachusetts that just celebrated its 50th anniversary in business. Officials were called to Jamie’s Pub in Scituate, Mass., around 4:20 a.m. Sunday. Fire Chief John...
