Latest Rhode Island Headlines
All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Narragansett Bay to Write P/C Insurance in Connecticut
Feb 8 2016 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC), a Rhode Island-based specialty underwriter of homeowners insurance products and services in states along the Eastern Seaboard, said the company has been approved by the...
Narragansett Bay Approved to Write P/C Insurance in Connecticut
Jan 27 2016 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC), a Rhode Island-based specialty underwriter of homeowners insurance products and services in states along the Eastern Seaboard, announced that the company has been approved by the...
People – East
Jan 25 2016 // The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) announced that longtime President and Chief Executive Officer, Francis A. Mancini, will retire from the association at the end of 2016. MAIA has formed a search...
Dwyer Named Rhode Island’s Superintendent of Banking and Insurance
Jan 12 2016 // The Rhode Island Insurance Division, part of the Department of Business Regulation, announced that the Insurance Division’s Associate Director Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer has been named Rhode Island’s...
Rhode Island Landlord Sentenced in Arson-for-Profit Scheme
Jan 11 2016 // A Providence, Rhode Island, landlord will serve three and a half years in federal prison for starting a fire at a vacant apartment in an otherwise occupied multi-family home in an attempt to collect insurance...
R.I. Gov. Urges Legislature to Help Undocumented Immigrants Get Licenses
Jan 7 2016 // Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has run out of time to carry out an ambitious promise she made on the campaign trail to grant driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally. Raimondo signed a poster-sized...
People – East
Dec 21 2015 // Markel Corp. in Richmond, Virginia, reported that Thomas S. Gayner, president and chief investment officer, and Richard R. Whitt III, president and co-chief operating officer, will serve as co-chief executive officers of...
Brown & Brown Acquires Ocean Marine Insurance Agency & Affiliates in R.I.
Dec 18 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Inc. has acquired certain assets of Ocean Marine Insurance Agency Inc., Ocean Marine Insurance Agency of Massachusetts...
Rhode Island’s Chestnut Hill Acquires Rotatori Insurance
Dec 16 2015 // Chestnut Hill Insurance Group, an independent property/casualty insurance agency in Chepachet, Rhode Island, announced that it has acquired Rotatori Insurance, an independent P/C agency also based in Chepachet. Terms of...
Soucy Insurance Agency Hires Pisaruk as Account Manager in R.I.
Dec 2 2015 // John Pisaruk Soucy Insurance Agency in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has hired John Pisaruk as Commercial Lines account manager. With over 30 years of experience in the commercial insurance industry, Pisaruk specializes in...
R.I. Taxi Companies Agree to Delay Uber Case Until After Session
Nov 23 2015 // Two Rhode Island taxi companies seeking to stop ride-hailing company Uber from operating in Rhode Island have agreed to delay the case until after the legislative session. Orange Cab of Newport and Airport Taxi of Warwick...
R.I. Insurance Superintendent Torti to Leave Post, Join Fairfax Financial
Nov 19 2015 // Rhode Island Superintendent of Banking and Insurance Joseph Torti III will leave his post at the end of the year and join Fairfax Financial as vice president of Regulatory Affairs. Torti was appointed associate director...
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...
Cross Insurance Promotes Heaslip to President of Rhode Island Branch
Nov 2 2015 // Gary Heaslip Cross Insurance, an independent agency based in Bangor, Maine, has promoted Gary Heaslip to the position of president for Cross Insurance Inc. – Rhode Island, located in East Providence, Rhode Island. In his...
Heritage Taps Hutchinson to Lead Sales & Marketing in Mass., R.I.
Oct 28 2015 // Peter J. Hutchinson Clearwater, Florida-based Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Company has hired Peter J. Hutchinson as director of sales and marketing for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, a new position. He is...
States Probing Insurers’ Use of Price Optimization in Rating
Oct 19 2015 // When Fred and Donna Wolden’s biannual car insurance premium went up by $90 last month, they wanted to know why. The Wisconsin retirees hadn’t had an accident or bought a new vehicle. In fact, they say not much...
DeCotis Insurance Names New CEO in Rhode Island
Oct 14 2015 // Thomas DeCotis DeCotis Insurance Associates, a specialty and surplus lines wholesaler and managing general agent based in Providence, Rhode Island, with an additional office in Braintree, Massachusetts, announced that...
Rhode Island Addresses Price Optimization
Oct 5 2015 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Division issued a bulletin on Sept. 18 for personal lines property/casualty insurers in the state that effectively prohibits the use of non-risk related features of price optimization. Rhode...
Rhode Island Attorney General Urges Teens to Not Text While Driving
Sep 29 2015 // Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin is urging teenage drivers to not use their cell phones while driving as part of the fourth annual “It Can Wait” campaign in the state. Kilmartin kicked off this...
Rhode Island Directs Insurers Using Price Optimization to Submit Revised Filings
Sep 23 2015 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Division issued a bulletin on Sept. 18 advising that any personal lines property/casualty insurer that uses price optimization to rate policies in Rhode Island should submit revised filings...
