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Massachusetts’ Knight-Dik Insurance: 100 Years, Four Generations
Jun 28 2017 // When Thomas Babb launched his insurance agency – Thomas Babb Insurance Agency – in an 11-story building in downtown Worcester, Mass., in 1917, he also launched a legacy that would span a century of growth and four...
Massachusetts Worker Injured on the Job Wins $750K Jury Award
Jun 26 2017 // A Massachusetts jury has recently awarded $750,000 to a man who suffered severe leg injuries while working for a landscaping business that did not carry workers’ compensation insurance. A lawyer for 52-year-old Jose...
Massachusetts House Approves Bill to Redo Recreational Marijuana Law
Jun 23 2017 // A bill that would repeal and replace the recreational marijuana law approved by Massachusetts voters in November cleared the House late Wednesday. Critics who lashed out at the proposal accused lawmakers of ignoring the...
WCRI Researchers Compare States on Injured Workers Returning to Work
Jun 21 2017 // From 10 to 18 percent of injured workers never reach “substantial return to work,” according to new research by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) comparing outcomes for injured workers in six...
Mass. Court Says Arbitration is Allowed in Underinsured Motorist Claim Suit
Jun 20 2017 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that Arbella Mutual Insurance Company did not engage in unfair settlement practices by demanding arbitration in a lawsuit involving an underinsured motorist claim. In the case,...
Kaplansky Insurance Acquires Gath Insurance in Massachusetts
Jun 20 2017 // Kaplansky Insurance, an independent, locally owned insurance agency based in Needham, Mass., has acquired Gath Insurance Agency in Lowell, Mass. Gath Insurance provides a range of insurance services to both personal and...
Massachusetts Public Works Employee Dies After Lawn Tractor Overturns
Jun 19 2017 // Officials say a Massachusetts Department of Public Works employee has died after a lawn tractor he was driving overturned and landed on top of him. Police say the Plainville DPW employee was cutting grass Thursday near a...
Authorities: 18 Injured After Ferry Crashes into Jetty in Massachusetts
Jun 19 2017 // Eighteen people were injured after a high-speed ferry struck a jetty in Hyannisport, Mass., and began taking on water, authorities said. The U.S. Coast Guard and steamship authority said the ferry, Iyanough, hit the jetty...
Mass. Court Says Suspended Public Employee Can Receive Workers’ Comp
Jun 19 2017 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that an injured public employee is still eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits after being suspended from employment. The court concluded workers’...
Massachusetts Marijuana Proposal Seeks Higher Taxes, More Local Control
Jun 15 2017 // Lawmakers reviewing the state’s new recreational marijuana law plan to recommend sharply higher taxes and more control for city and town officials over retail pot shops in their communities, according to a copy of a...
Smoking Materials Blamed for Massive Massachusetts Blaze
Jun 14 2017 // The State Fire Marshal’s Office says the improper disposal of smoking materials led to a massive fire in Massachusetts that destroyed three multifamily homes and damaged several other buildings. Officials say the...
Massachusetts’ Rogers & Gray Insurance Hires First Chief Information Officer
Jun 13 2017 // Rogers & Gray Insurance, a Kingston, Mass.-headquartered independent insurance agency, has hired Peter Cullivan as its first chief information officer, effective June 2. In this newly-created senior management...
Worley Acquires Massachusetts’ Apex Claims Service
Jun 9 2017 // Worley Claims Services LLC (Worley), a provider of insurance claims services in the U.S., has acquired Apex Claims Service of New England LLC (Apex), a provider of daily and catastrophe commercial and residential property...
Maine’s Cross Insurance Acquires Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency
Jun 6 2017 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine-based subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., has acquired Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency, making it the 16th Massachusetts insurance agency to be purchased by Cross. Founded in 1903,...
Former Massachusetts Power Plant Manager Sentenced for Emissions Fraud
Jun 6 2017 // A former manager of a western Massachusetts power plant has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to tampering with emissions equipment and submitting bogus reports to regulators in violation of the federal...
Business Moves
Jun 5 2017 // Hub International, Rossmann-Hurt-Hoffman Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired Rossmann-Hurt-Hoffman Inc. (RHH). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Ellicott City,...
Allstate’s Encompass Insurance to Exit Massachusetts This Summer
Jun 5 2017 // Encompass Insurance, an Allstate Insurance company that sells business through independent agents, outlined in its first quarter 2017 earnings release its intent to withdraw from Massachusetts starting in late June as part...
Massachusetts Court Affirms How to Calculate Interest in Workers’ Comp Suit
Jun 5 2017 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has affirmed the Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA) reviewing board’s decision in a case involving how interest should be assessed on unpaid workers’ compensation...
Massachusetts’ The Hanover Insurance Group Elects Price to Board of Directors
May 31 2017 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc., a Worcester, Mass.-based holding company for several property and casualty insurance companies, has elected Michael D. Price to the company’s board of directors, effective July 3....
Executive Changes Announced at Massachusetts’ Hospitality Insurance Group
May 26 2017 // After 32 years as a member of Hospitality Insurance Group’s Board of Directors, E. Thomas McCabe Jr. of Westborough, Mass., will be stepping down as chairman. Before joining Hospitality Insurance Group, McCabe was a...
