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Fraudulent Filings in Massachusetts Could Be Distorting U.S. Jobless Claims Reports
May 18 2023 // Fraudulent filings for state unemployment insurance aid in Massachusetts could be distorting U.S. weekly unemployment claims data, economists warned on Wednesday, making it harder to get a clear picture of the labor market...
Massachusetts AG Reports $6.15M Settlement With CVS Over Workers’ Comp Drugs
May 16 2023 // Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s office reports it has reached a $6.15 million settlement with CVS Pharmacy, Inc. to resolve allegations of overcharging for prescriptions for workers’...
Seafood Company Denies Discrimination Claim by Immigrant Worker
May 16 2023 // A Massachusetts seafood business said Thursday that it did not discriminate against an immigrant worker who complained to the state. The worker, Paula Fortes, is a Black woman who immigrated to the U.S. from Cape Verde, an...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Consider Limiting Zip Code Weight in Auto Rates
May 11 2023 // Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a measure that would curtail the use of geographical location in the rating of private passenger auto insurance, a factor that critics say now penalizes urban and minority...
Philip Morris Must Pay $37M to Cancer Victim, Massachusetts High Court Rules
May 10 2023 // Tobacco company Philip Morris USA must pay $37 million to a Massachusetts woman who developed cancer from smoking Marlboro Lights cigarettes, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a unanimous decision. The...
Wrongfully Convicted Massachusetts Man Gets $13M Settlement
May 5 2023 // A Massachusetts man who spent 32 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of setting a fire that killed eight people will receive $13 million from the city where he was arrested. “One of the things for me to...
Worker’s Body Recovered at Site of Explosion at Massachusetts Plant With Fire History
May 5 2023 // The body of a worker who died in an explosion at a Newburyport, Massachusetts chemical plant has been recovered and identified. The deceased has been identified by his family as Jack O’Keefe of Methuen. The body was...
One Worker Missing After Explosion at Massachusetts Chemical Plant
May 4 2023 // One worker is missing and the building is severely damaged after an early morning explosion at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in a business park in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Five workers were in the building at the time...
Massachusetts Man Sentenced in Luxury Car Insurance Fraud Scheme
May 3 2023 // A Holbrook, Massachusetts man has been found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in the Norfolk House of Correction for damaging luxury cars bought under false pretenses in order to collect insurance...
Securities Broker Robinhood’s Fight Against Fiduciary Rule Before Massachusetts Court
May 3 2023 // Massachusetts’ highest court on Wednesday will consider whether to revive a state fiduciary duty rule that was central to an enforcement action securities regulators filed against the online brokerage Robinhood. A...
Massachusetts Hospital Lacked Workplace Violence Protections, OSHA Judge Finds
Apr 28 2023 // A federal administrative law judge has determined that the manager of Fuller Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts exposed employees to workplace violence without adequate protections in 2019, particularly at times when...
Massachusetts High Court Opens 27,000 Drunk Driving Cases to Reconsideration
Apr 26 2023 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that 27,000 people who pled guilty or were convicted of drunk driving from June 1, 2011 to April 18, 2019, are entitled to have their cases reconsidered due to the state...
World Insurance Acquires TJ Woods Agency in Massachusetts
Apr 13 2023 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports that it has acquired the business of Thomas J. Woods Insurance Agency, Inc. of Worcester, Massachusetts. TJ Woods was founded in 1949, and is a property/casualty agency,...
Massachusetts Grapples With Letting Judges Order Mental Health Care
Apr 11 2023 // When Ashoke and Vinita Rampuria’s son returned home after taking a year off from college, to complete his course work, he didn’t seem like himself. “He was unable to complete tasks. He was lying on the...
Massachusetts Approves 10.2% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut
Apr 6 2023 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation rates will fall an average 10.2% starting July 1, a considerably bigger reduction than the industry recommended. Insurance Commissioner Gary Anderson signed off on the cut that...
Massachusetts to Investigate First Republic Executives’ Stock Sales: Reuters
Mar 31 2023 // Massachusetts regulators have opened an investigation into sales of company stock by top executives at First Republic Bank in the weeks leading up to the recent banking turmoil. Massachusetts’ Secretary of the...
Massachusetts Man Sentenced in Business Email Compromise Scheme
Mar 14 2023 // A Framingham, Massachusetts man was sentenced this week for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme. Gustaf Njei was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 27 months in prison and...
Two Agree to Plead Guilty in Massachusetts Driver’s License Scam
Mar 7 2023 // The former manager of a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles branch has agreed to plead guilty to federal extortion charges for allegedly taking bribes and in exchange for issuing passing scores on learner’s...
Federal Court Denies Massachusetts Hospital’s Covid-19 Business Insurance Claim
Mar 1 2023 // A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and disease contamination provisions of its property insurance policy. U.S. District...
World Insurance Acquires Durfee Buffinton in Massachusetts
Feb 27 2023 // National insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports it acquired the business of Durfee Buffinton Insurance Agency, Inc. of Fall River, Massachusetts. Terms of the December 31, 2022 transaction were not...
