Latest Rhode Island Headlines
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Residents Say Home Run Balls from Local Rhode Island Field Damage Property
Jun 25 2018 // Residents in a Newport, R.I., neighborhood say baseballs hit out of a field used by a collegiate summer league team are damaging their houses and cars. The Newport Daily News reports residents gathered at City Hall to...
Rhode Island Quarry Blast That Injured Two Town Workers Ruled Accidental
Jun 25 2018 // Rhode Island officials have ruled the quarry blast that injured two town employees and damaged multiple buildings accidental. The Westerly Sun reported the state Fire Marshal’s Office found the blast at the Westerly...
West Virginia Supreme Court Says Widow Entitled to Husband’s Workers’ Comp Benefits
Jun 14 2018 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a Rhode Island woman whose husband died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a hotel is entitled to West Virginia workers’ compensation benefits. The state Workers’ Compensation...
Couple Awarded $31M After Rhode Island Pond Accident Left Man Paralyzed
Jun 4 2018 // A jury has awarded $31 million to an Iraq War veteran and his wife after a swimming accident at the University of Rhode Island left him paralyzed from the chest down. The Providence Journal reports a Superior Court jury...
Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Insurance Company Names Tiziani SVP
May 30 2018 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC) has named Glen Tiziani senior vice president of Sales & Distribution, effective May 21, 2018. NBIC, a Rhode Island-headquartered, wholly-owned subsidiary of Heritage Insurance...
Rhode Island’s Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Hires Thayer
May 24 2018 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S) has hired Jessica Thayer as the Financial Services Risk Solutions (FI) Practice Group leader. Thayer has specialized in directors and officers, errors and...
Morrison Mahoney Hires Two in Rhode Island
May 10 2018 // Morrison Mahoney LLP, a litigation firm, is expanding its Workers’ Compensation and General Liability Team in Providence, R.I., adding two attorneys to assist these growing practices. Jonathan R. Myhre joined the...
Rhode Island Monitoring App Could Save Drivers on Car Insurance
Apr 10 2018 // A new auto insurance company in Rhode Island is rewarding drivers with cheaper rates based off how they drive. The catch is that policyholders have to allow HiRoad Assurance Company to track them in a cellphone app. The...
Rhode Island’s Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Hires Berry
Mar 13 2018 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., an East Providence, R.I.-headquartered independent insurance agency, has hired Joanmarie Berry as a financial insurance specialist. She is based in Milton, Mass. In her...
Fresh Kiwi Blamed for Physical Reactions at 14 Rhode Island Schools
Feb 12 2018 // Rhode Island health officials are investigating after students at 14 schools had physical reactions after eating kiwi fruit. The state’s Department of Health says approximately 34 students in cities including...
Lawyers Seek to Compel Boater to Speak about Missing Gun in Rhode Island Court
Feb 1 2018 // An insurance company has asked a federal judge to force a man to discuss what happened to a missing gun that matches the caliber of the gun used to kill his millionaire grandfather. National Liability & Fire Insurance...
Four Rhode Island Homes Damaged in Fire
Jan 8 2018 // Four multi-family homes have been damaged and six residents and two firefighters injured following in an early morning fire in Providence, R.I. Fire officials say the blaze was reported at around 3 a.m. Saturday in the...
Judge Bars Captain from Piloting Ships Following Fatal Rhode Island Crash
Dec 21 2017 // A New Jersey yacht captain is barred from piloting ships as he awaits trial in the death of an 81-year-old Connecticut boater in Rhode Island waters. U.S. District Court Magistrate Patricia Sullivan ordered Cooper...
Rhode Island’s Eliclade’s Service Joins Satellite Agency Network Group
Dec 8 2017 // Eliclade’s Service Inc. of Cranston, R.I., recently joined Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast. Through this affiliation, Eliclade’s Service...
Heritage to Acquire Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Insurance
Nov 28 2017 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc., a Clearwater, Fla.-headquartered property/casualty insurance holding company, has secured regulatory approval from the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation to acquire NBIC...
5 Rhode Island Residents Charged in Fake Opioid Prescription Scheme
Nov 20 2017 // Federal authorities say five Rhode Island residents have been charged with participating in a scheme to create fake prescriptions for opioid pills and occasionally use medical insurance to pay for those prescriptions. The...
Prime Insurance to Write Specialty Lines in New Hampshire, Rhode Island
Nov 15 2017 // Prime Holdings Insurance Services Inc. (Prime Holdings) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (Prime), recently received approval to write specialty lines insurance coverage in New Hampshire and Rhode...
Prime Authorized to Write Surplus Lines in New Hampshire and Rhode Island
Nov 15 2017 // Salt Lake City, UT, Chicago, Illinois, November 15, 2017- Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (“Prime Holdings”) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (“Prime”), recently...
Five Rhode Island Residents Charged in Fake Opioid Prescription Scheme
Nov 6 2017 // Federal authorities say five Rhode Island residents have been charged with participating in a scheme to create fake prescriptions for opioid pills and occasionally use medical insurance to pay for those prescriptions. The...
Severe Weather Sweeps Through Northeast, 300,000 Without Power
Oct 31 2017 // Severe weather pounded the Northeast region with powerful winds and drenching rains early Monday, leaving nearly 300,000 without power. Southern New England appeared to suffer the brunt of the storm damage...
