Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Mass. Motorcycle Owners to Receive $14.6M in Refunds
Jul 21 2014 // Thousands of Massachusetts motorcycle owners will receive a total of $14.6 million in insurance refunds as a result of a settlement with Commerce Insurance Company after allegedly being overcharged on their policies. The...
Mass. Officials Issue Reminders on Kids’ Summertime Safety
Jul 16 2014 // Massachusetts state officials are issuing safety reminders to families as the summer season takes hold. The Department of Children and Families, the Department of Public Health and the Office of the Child Advocate jointly...
Protesters in Massachusetts Call for Hobby Lobby Boycott
Jul 14 2014 // Protesters from southern New England have rallied outside Hobby Lobby Inc. store in Seekonk, Massachusetts, to protest a U.S. Supreme Court decision that organizers say reduces access to reproductive health services and...
Massachusetts Reports Progress in Repairing Health Insurance Website
Jul 11 2014 // Massachusetts state officials are offering an upbeat assessment of efforts to repair the state’s hobbled health insurance website. Maydad Cohen, special assistant to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, told the...
Mass. Motorcycle Owners to Receive $14.6M in Refunds From Commerce
Jul 8 2014 // Thousands of Massachusetts motorcycle owners will receive a total of $14.6 million in insurance refunds as a result of a settlement with Commerce Insurance Company after allegedly being overcharged on their policies. The...
Official: Massachusetts Life Returns to Normal After Hurricane Arthur
Jul 6 2014 // Massachusetts state emergency officials say life is returning to normal after Hurricane Arthur dumped surprising amounts of rain and unleashed strong winds in parts of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Emergency Management...
New Massachusetts Law Extends Protections to Domestic Workers
Jul 3 2014 // People who hire nannies, caregivers and other domestic workers in Massachusetts must now adhere to established labor standards and other worker protections. The bill signed into law by Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday...
Mass. Bill Would Add Liability Coverage to FAIR Plan’s Non-Owner Occupied Dwelling Policy
Jul 1 2014 // The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) is pushing a bill, S-465, that would require the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA), also known as the Massachusetts FAIR Plan, to...
Mass. Senate OKs Bill Tying Required Flood Coverage Amount to Mortgage Balance
Jun 30 2014 // The Massachusetts state Senate on June 26 passed legislation filed by the state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley, and state House Speaker Robert DeLeo aimed at softening the impact of flood insurance rate...
Massachusetts Paying $35M to End Healthcare Website Contract
Jun 23 2014 // Massachusetts health care officials said on June 20 they’ll pay the lead contractor on the state’s hobbled health insurance website an additional $35 million to close out the contract. That means the CGI Group,...
Domestic Worker Bill Approved by Massachusetts Legislature
Jun 20 2014 // The Massachusetts House has given final approval to legislation creating a “bill of rights” for nannies, caregivers and other domestic workers by establishing labor standards and other worker protections. The...
Massachusetts FAIR Plan Mulls Appeal of Commissioner’s Rate Decision
Jun 20 2014 // The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (“FAIR Plan”) said its board of directors will meet next week to decide whether to file an appeal to challenge Insurance Commissioner Joseph G....
McSweeney & Ricci Announces 4 Appointments in Massachusetts
Jun 18 2014 // McSweeney & Ricci Insurance Agency Inc., an independent agency with four locations in Massachusetts, recently announced four appointments in its Braintree, Mass., office. McSweeney & Ricci said William Liddell,...
Mass. AG Sues Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Over Foreclosure Law
Jun 16 2014 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has sued the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for allegedly violating the state’s 2012 foreclosure prevention...
Mass. Division of Insurance Rejects FAIR Plan Rate Increase
Jun 16 2014 // Mass. Insurance commisioner Joseph Murphy Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance Joseph G. Murphy announced on June 9 his decision rejecting the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association’s...
A.I.M. Mutual in Massachusetts Announces 2 Promotions
Jun 12 2014 // The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Companies (A.I.M. Mutual), a workers’ compensation insurer based in Burlington, Mass., announced two promotions. Cheryl A. Began was elected corporate...
Massachusetts DOI Rejects FAIR Plan Rate Increase
Jun 9 2014 // Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance Joseph G. Murphy announced Monday his decision rejecting the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association’s (“FAIR Plan”) request to increase its...
Mass. AG Sues Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Over Foreclosure Law
Jun 3 2014 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is suing the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for allegedly violating the state’s 2012 foreclosure prevention...
People – East
Jun 2 2014 // XL Group has named Michele Sansone as president of its North America property insurance business and head of its global risk engineering division, XL GAPS. Reporting to Joseph Tocco, chief executive of XL Insurance’s...
Massachusetts Carpenters’ Union Goes After Water Park Developer
May 28 2014 // Unionized carpenters in Massachusetts want the state to rescind a 20-year tax increment financing deal to the developer of a water park and resort in Fitchburg, Mass. The New England Regional Council of Carpenters says...
