Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Mass. Consumer Comments Highlight Concerns Over Home Insurance Rates
Dec 30 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently published on its website written public comments that were received in conjunction with the Division’s informational hearings on the Massachusetts home insurance...
Mass. Workers’ Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau Proposes Rate Hike
Dec 28 2015 // The Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIBMA) has submitted a rate filing to the Division of Insurance on behalf of its members. The Dec. 23 filing recommends a 6.4 percent...
Massachusetts AG Faults Insurers’ Rate Hikes
Dec 21 2015 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says two of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurance companies won excessive and unwarranted rate increases of about 9 percent by taking advantage of last...
Assurant to Pay Restitution to Massachusetts Homeowners
Dec 21 2015 // The largest force-placed insurer in Massachusetts has agreed to provide refunds to homeowners to settle allegations that it improperly charged for force-placed insurance policies, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura...
Massachusetts Rejects Mapfre’s Ice-Dam Deductible Request
Dec 17 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently denied a request by Mapfre USA Corp. to add an ice-dam deductible to some homeowners policyholders who previously had multiple ice-dam claims. Mapfre USA Corp., the largest...
Mass. Lawmakers Weigh 2-Tiered Driver’s License Identification System
Dec 17 2015 // Among the many issues that Massachusetts lawmakers may deal with after returning from recess in January is whether to bring the state into compliance with REAL ID, a federal program that sets new requirements for...
Massachusetts to Receive $120M in Disaster Aid for Last Winter’s Snowfall
Dec 11 2015 // Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts is expecting to receive $120 million in federal disaster assistance following last winter’s record snowfall. That’s the most ever awarded to the state as the...
Woodruff-Sawyer to Acquire Capstone Insurance in Massachusetts
Dec 8 2015 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co., an independent brokerage based in San Francisco, announced today that it will be acquiring Capstone Insurance, the property/casualty brokerage division of Newton, Massachusetts-based financial...
Massachusetts Agents Have Over $1B Financial Impact on State
Dec 7 2015 // Eight years after the introduction of managed competition for private passenger auto insurance and the influx of direct writers and direct response companies into Massachusetts, a new study commissioned by the...
Mass. AG Announces $209K Settlement With American Fidelity Assurance
Dec 4 2015 // American Fidelity Assurance Company (AFA), a life and health insurance company based in Oklahoma City, has agreed to pay $209,000 to settle allegations that it failed to cover mandated benefits required by state law and...
Mass. AG Argues Mapfre, Safety Won Excessive Home Insurance Rate Hikes
Dec 3 2015 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says two of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurance companies won excessive and unwarranted rate increases of about 9 percent by taking advantage of last...
3 Earn Award for Combating Auto Insurance Fraud in Massachusetts
Nov 24 2015 // Two police officers and a prosecutor who work in the Northwestern District Attorney’s office in Northampton, Massachusetts, have earned a national award for combating auto insurance fraud. Det. Lt. John Cummings,...
Questions Arise as More Mass. Residents List Their Homes on Lodging Sites
Nov 24 2015 // Marcus Ohanesian and Katie O’Connor’s apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts, is in a “family-friendly neighborhood central to the middle of Worcester” and a short walk to excellent restaurants and...
Mass. Fire Marshal Offers Tips to Avoid Thanksgiving Blazes
Nov 24 2015 // Enjoy the Thanksgiving turkey but be careful while it’s in the oven. That’s the message from Massachusetts fire marshal Stephen Coan, who says more fires break out in homes in Massachusetts on Thanksgiving than...
Mass. AG Healey: Insurer Improperly Charged Thousands of Homeowners
Nov 24 2015 // The largest force-placed insurance company in Massachusetts has agreed to provide refunds to homeowners to settle allegations that it improperly charged for force-placed insurance policies, Massachusetts Attorney General...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Go Home for Holidays; No Action on Ridesharing
Nov 23 2015 // In the home of the Pilgrims, lawmakers have gone home ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The Massachusetts Legislature has adjourned for 2015, having failed to move on any of four bills introduced this year that proposed...
Orchid Underwriters to Acquire Platinum Partners in Massachusetts
Nov 20 2015 // Orchid Underwriters, a Vero Beach, Florida-based managing general agent providing excess & surplus (E&S) insurance for coastal properties, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Platinum Partners, a...
Norfolk & Dedham Hires Thompson as Finance & Investment Director in Mass.
Nov 19 2015 // Michael Thompson The Norfolk & Dedham Group, a regional property/casualty insurer based in Dedham, Massachusetts, hired Michael Thompson as director, Finance and Investment. Thompson is responsible for providing...
Study: Mass. Independent Agents Have Over $1B Financial Impact on Economy
Nov 17 2015 // Eight years after the introduction of managed competition for private passenger auto insurance and the influx of direct writers and direct response companies into Massachusetts to compete with independent agencies, a new...
People – East
Nov 16 2015 // The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, hired David Hobbs as president and chief operating officer. The title of president was previously held by Chief Executive Officer Robert Hilb...
