Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Massachusetts AG Sees Foreclosure Deal With Banks Likely
Jan 19 2012 // The Massachusetts attorney general who sued five major banks over allegedly deceptive foreclosure practices says it’s likely some states will settle with the banks. Martha Coakley told the Greater Boston Chamber of...
Mass. AG Coakley Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Back Insurance Mandate
Jan 17 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a key provision in the federal health care law. The high court is expected to hear arguments this year on the...
Progressive Pays $125K Fine in Massachusetts
Jan 9 2012 // The Massachusetts Insurance Division reached $125,000 financial settlement with Progressive Direct Insurance Company last month. According to regulators, Progressive had informed some Massachusetts consumers, through its...
Suit in Mass. Bullying Case Was Settled for $225,000, Documents Show
Dec 29 2011 // A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000, according to documents made public Tuesday. The...
Small Leak Forces Shutdown of Massachusetts Nuclear Power Plant
Dec 29 2011 // The Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth, Mass., has been shut down after what officials said was a small leak of radioactive steam in a safety relief valve. Rob Williams, a spokesman for the plant’s owner,...
Massachusetts Business Owner Pleads Guilty to $28K Insurance Fraud
Dec 29 2011 // A Peabody. Massachusetts, business owner pleaded guilty yesterday and was sentenced in connection with collecting over $28,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for work performed at his auto and glass...
Employers Share Employee Benefits Success Stories at Mass. Conference
Dec 29 2011 // New England Employee Benefits Council (NEEBC) held its annual conference earlier this month, giving its Best Benefits Practices awards to six winners. The winners shared their success stories at the NEEBC conference in...
Some in Massachusetts Eye Tougher Cellphone Restrictions for Motorists
Dec 16 2011 // Supporters of tougher laws against distracted driving said Wednesday they hoped the National Transportation Safety Board’s call for an outright ban on all non-emergency cellphone use by motorists would encourage...
Progressive to Pay $125K Fine in Massachusetts
Dec 13 2011 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance announced a $125,000 financial settlement with Progressive Direct Insurance Company. Regulators said Progressive erroneously informed some Massachusetts consumers that they had used...
Law Pushed After Study Shows Massachusetts Seat Belt Use Dropping
Dec 12 2011 // A coalition is pushing for a new seat belt enforcement law after a study showed that seat belt use in Massachusetts is among the lowest in the country. According to a University of Massachusetts study prepared for the...
Massachusetts Utility Regulators Probe October Storm Response
Dec 5 2011 // Massachusetts regulators are preparing to hold public hearings in Springfield and East Longmeadow as they investigate how utility companies responded to the October snowstorm that knocked out power to thousands for...
Massachusetts Enacts Law on Credit Ban
Dec 5 2011 // Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law a bill that bans the use of credit in underwriting and rating private passenger motor vehicle insurance. The ban has already been in practice in the state but as an...
Declarations
Dec 5 2011 // Massachusetts Models “Untested and unsupported forecast models should not be used to justify rates that are excessive. Hurricane models have a significant impact on the premiums paid by all Massachusetts homeowners...
Massachusetts Sues Banks Over Foreclosures
Dec 2 2011 // Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices such as the “robo-signing” of documents, potentially undermining negotiations between lenders and state prosecutors across the...
Massachusetts Enacts Law on Credit Ban for Auto Insurance
Nov 29 2011 // Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law a bill that bans the use of credit in underwriting and rating private passenger motor vehicle insurance in his state. The law, Chapter 195 of the Acts of 2011, was...
Massachusetts ‘Alarm Fatigue’ Lawsuit Settled
Nov 29 2011 // The family of an 89-year-old man who died at Massachusetts General Hospital when nurses did not respond to alarms on his cardiac monitor has settled its case against the hospital for $850,000. The Boston Globe reported on...
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts Won’t Seek Re-election
Nov 28 2011 // U.S. Democratic Representative Barney Frank, who helped to craft the landmark overhaul of financial regulations that bears his name, will not seek re-election in 2012, Democratic aides said Monday. Frank, one of the most...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Weigh Changes to Motorcycle Laws
Nov 28 2011 // Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing changes to the state’s motorcycle laws, including bills designed to ease the requirement that riders wear helmets. Current law requires all riders and passengers to wear...
Mass. AG Wants to Put Brakes on ‘Excessive’ Homeowners Insurance Rate
Nov 18 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is urging the State Rating Board to hold a hearing to scrutinize the data insurers use to set homeowners insurance rates in her state. The Attorney General’s office says...
Travelers of Massachusetts Launches Accident Forgiveness, New Car Discounts
Nov 16 2011 // New car purchases in Massachusetts are on pace to exceed the 2010 year-end total of 310,547 by more than seven percent, according to data from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. In response to increasing new car...
