Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Teacher’s Halloween Prank Sparks $100K Legal Claim in Massachusetts
Sep 16 2011 // The family of a Taunton (Mass.) High School student injured running away from a teacher wearing a mask and wielding what appeared to be a chain saw for a Halloween prank is seeking up to $100,000 in compensation for...
Massachusetts-Based Arbella Insurance Appoints New Hampshire Director
Sep 15 2011 // Arbella Insurance Group, a Quincy, Mass.-based provider of business and personal insurance for the New England region, hired Robin Maddox as territory manager for the state of New Hampshire. Maddox previously worked as the...
Hub Buys Assets of Massachusetts-based William Palumbo Agency
Sep 13 2011 // Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of William Palumbo Insurance Agency Inc., a Boston-area based retail brokerage firm. This acquisition allows Hub to expand its presence in Massachusetts, including the Cape...
Hanover Names Lavallee Personal Lines Sales Manager in Massachusetts
Sep 12 2011 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has appointed Meredith Lavallee as personal lines territory sales manager for the company’s Massachusetts market, effective Aug. 1. In her new role, Lavallee will help the...
Mass. Agents’ Auto Insurance Ballot Question Advances
Sep 9 2011 // Nearly all of the proposed questions for Massachusetts’ 2012 state ballot have been given preliminary approval. Attorney General Martha Coakley certified Wednesday 23 of the 31 initiative petitions filed with her...
Benefits Available for Those in 2 Mass. Counties Left Jobless by Irene
Sep 8 2011 // Residents of Berkshire and Franklin counties in Massachusetts who lost their jobs due to flooding or other damage caused by Tropical Storm Irene may be eligible for federal disaster unemployment assistance. The state...
Mass. Court Rules on Joint Employers’ Responsibilty for Workers’ Comp
Sep 8 2011 // Two employers can be held jointly responsible for workers’ compensation benefits for an injured worker whom they both classified as an independent contractor, a Massachusetts appeals court has ruled. The...
New England Coast Weathers Irene; Inland Flooding, Power Outages Major Concerns
Aug 29 2011 // As Tropical Storm Irene churned up the eastern seaboard it left many of New England’s coastal states relatively unscathed, while inflicting some of the worst damage on landlocked Vermont, where severe flooding is now...
Massachusetts Man Awarded Damages in Suit Over Art Heist
Aug 26 2011 // A U.S. jury has found in favor of the plaintiff in a Massachusetts lawsuit filed in connection with a 1978 art heist. The jury awarded plaintiff Michael Bakwin more than $3.1 million in damages on Tuesday. The artwork was...
Massachusetts Judge Refuses to Quash Fatal Arson Evidence
Aug 24 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has rejected a plea to suppress evidence in the case of a Northampton man accused of setting 15 fires that left two men dead and damaged property and vehicles more than a year ago. Prosecutors allege...
Settlement Reached in 2006 Ink Plant Explosion in Massachusetts
Aug 15 2011 // Federal officials said they have reached agreement with the owners and a former operator of an inks and paint products manufacturing facility in Danvers, Mass., that exploded and burned in 2006 the day before...
State Agencies Not Exempt from Age Bias Claims, Says Mass. Court
Aug 11 2011 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled state agencies aren’t exempt from age discrimination lawsuits, even when the discrimination is the result of a policy that doesn’t explicitly target older workers. The...
Massachusetts Agents Seek Ballot Measure to Ban Insurers’ Use of Credit Scores
Aug 4 2011 // Massachusetts independent insurance agents who oppose the use of credit scores, occupation and education level in auto insurance pricing by the insurance companies they represent are pushing to put a petition to ban such...
Group Wants to Repeal Key Part of Mass. Health Law
Aug 4 2011 // Anti-abortion activists are pushing a ballot question designed to repeal a key element of Massachusetts’ landmark health care law. Massachusetts Citizens for Life President Anne Fox said the question would end the...
Mass. Court Nixes Claim Over Obsolete Fire Protection
Aug 1 2011 // A Massachusetts restaurant owner who failed to upgrade his obsolete fire suppression system was not entitled to collect insurance money after a massive fire six years ago – and must return $15,000 advanced to him by...
People
Aug 1 2011 // Wholesaler Swett & Crawford has added Ricky Dawson to its casualty staff in New York. Dawson, who has a background in both insurance wholesale brokerage and underwriting, previously served as a wholesale broker with...
Judge Releases Mass. Agency from 9/11 Lawsuit
Jul 29 2011 // The Massachusetts Port Authority was dismissed as a defendant from the last pending wrongful death lawsuit related to the Sept. 11 attacks, leaving United Airlines and a security company facing a trial in which airport...
Rite Aid to Pay Mass. $2.1M for Overcharges
Jul 29 2011 // Rite Aid has agreed to pay $2.1 million in a settlement with the state attorney general’s office over alleged overcharges for prescription drugs under the workers’ compensation insurance system. Attorney...
Mass. Gun-Maker to Pay $600K in Gun-Death Lawsuit
Jul 28 2011 // A Massachusetts gun-maker has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to the families of one man who was killed and another man who was wounded in a shooting involving a gun allegedly stolen from the company, a national gun-control...
Massachusetts Reports Decline in Drunk Driving Arrests
Jul 21 2011 // The state Registry of Motor Vehicles says the number of drunken driving arrests has declined in Massachusetts in the past five years. The agency’s numbers show there were 14,834 OUI (operating under the influence)...
