Latest Rhode Island Headlines
All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former Rhode Island DMV Clerk on Trial for Creating Fake Licenses
Nov 7 2008 // A former clerk for the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles is on trial for creating phony driver’s licenses in exchange for cash. The trial for Dolores Rodriguez LaFlamme began Wednesday in U.S. District Court....
Rhode Island Agency Recognized by National Trade Group
Nov 6 2008 // Hunter Insurance Inc., an independent agency in Lincoln, Rhode Island, has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. Trusted Choice is a branding effort...
Rhode Island Agents’ Trade Group Elects Loiselle-Mongeon as President
Oct 27 2008 // Melanie Loiselle-Mongeon has been named president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Rhode Island. Loiselle-Mongeon, who is vice president of Loiselle Insurance Agency of Pawtucket, becomes the youngest elected...
Rhode Island Senator Reed Reaps Campaign Cash from Insurance Sector
Oct 14 2008 // Nearly a quarter of all contributions to Sen. Jack Reed’s re-election campaign have been coming from donors in the banking, securities, real estate and insurance sectors. According to independent watchdog groups, the...
Rhode Island Hospital Cited for Wrong-Knee Surgery
Oct 13 2008 // The Rhode Island Health Department has found that a surgical team that operated on the wrong knee of a patient at The Miriam Hospital failed to visually verify which knee needed the procedure. The mistake occurred Sept. 19...
Very Drunk Rhode Island Driver Pleads No Contest
Oct 6 2008 // The Rhode Island man who state police said had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit when he was arrested in July has pleaded no contest to drunken driving. As part of a plea deal, Stanley Kobierowski...
Crane Falls on Rhode Island School under Construction
Oct 2 2008 // A crane that fell on a school under construction in Woonsocket, Rhode Island has damaged the building, but caused no injuries. An operator was warming up the crane Monday morning when its boom fell forward onto exposed...
R.I.-Based Commercial Insurer FM Global Revamps Top Management
Oct 2 2008 // FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, has made numerous promotions and reassignments within its senior management team that are to become effective Jan. 1, 2009. Brian J. Hurley,...
Rhode Island Marks 70th Anniversary of Its Most Destructive Storm
Sep 21 2008 // Downtown Providence was flooded and neighborhoods were destroyed. A group of school children who drowned after their bus was swept off the road were among the hundreds killed. It’s been 70 years since a catastrophic...
Tufts Health Plan to Enter Rhode Island Market
Sep 21 2008 // Tufts Health Plan will start insuring Rhode Island residents next year and compete against three existing insurers. Tufts President and CEO James Roosevelt Jr. said the Watertown, Mass.-based firm has been looking for...
Rhode Island Acts to Safeguard Investments Managed by AIG
Sep 18 2008 // Rhode Island is acting to safeguard the estimated $131 million it has in investment accounts managed by financially struggling insurance giant American International Group. State officials have formed a “SWAT...
Rhode Island Nightclub Owners Reach Settlement in Fatal Fire
Sep 5 2008 // The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire at a Great White concert killed 100 people have reached a tentative $813,000 settlement with survivors and relatives of those killed, the latest in a flurry of agreements made in...
Rock Band Offers $1M to Settle Fatal Rhode Island Fire Suits
Sep 4 2008 // Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims’ relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday. The...
High Car Stacks Blamed in Rhode Island Recycling Yard Fire
Aug 22 2008 // Officials in Johnston, Rhode Island say firefighters struggled to douse a large recycling plant fire over the weekend because cars there were stacked too high and were piled too close to each other. The blaze at the Metals...
R.I. Restricts Social Host Liability
Aug 21 2008 // The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s decision by refusing to hold a Manville couple liable for the injuries a woman and her boyfriend suffered in a car crash after drinking at the couple’s...
R.I. Court Backs Drunk Driving Law
Aug 21 2008 // The Rhode Island high court has backed a 2006 law that applies harsher penalties to drivers who refuse to take a Breathalyzer test. The law doubled the minimum license suspension for those who refused the test to six...
Rhode Island Lead Paint Cleanup Proceeds under DuPont Deal
Aug 20 2008 // Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch announced that cleanup of up to 600 housing units contaminated by lead paint is now going out to bid and said the work would target properties in poorer neighborhoods of the...
Rhode Island, Town Reach $20M Deal in Club Fire Suits
Aug 20 2008 // The state of Rhode Island and the town of West Warwick have each agreed to pay $10 million to those left behind after a nightclub fire that killed 100 people, according to court documents filed Monday. The latest...
Lawyers in Rhode Island Lead Paint Case Argue Court Costs
Aug 18 2008 // A lawyer for Rhode Island said Friday that three former lead paint companies should not be allowed to recoup costs from a nine-year legal fight with the state that ended last month in their favor. The state Supreme Court...
Ex-Lead Paint Firms Seek Reimbursements after R.I. Suit
Aug 11 2008 // Three former lead paint companies want to be reimbursed for some of the costs of defending against a public nuisance lawsuit filed by the state of Rhode Island. Last month, the state Supreme Court overturned...
