Latest Vermont Headlines
All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vermont Lawmakers Ask for Study on Medical Malpractice
Mar 22 2011 // Vermont lawmakers may ask the Shumlin administration to produce recommendations for reforming the medical malpractice system in the state with an eye to lowering health care costs. In debates over health care reform both...
Vermont Charges Contractor with Workers’ Compensation Violation
Feb 22 2011 // Williston, Vermont-based home improvement contractor Donald Bevins with three counts of failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance and two counts of violating a stop work order by state labor...
New Deputy Vermont Insurance Commissioner Named
Feb 10 2011 // A Massachusetts insurance regulator is set to become the deputy commissioner of Vermont’s Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration. Susan Donegan will come to Vermont from her job...
Captivated By Potential
Jan 24 2011 // Northeast State Have Uneven Success Attracting Captives States across the Northeast continue to look at captive insurance companies as a potential source of new business — and tax revenue — but the continued growth of...
Vermont Settles Data Breach Case with Insurer for $55K
Jan 20 2011 // The Vermont Attorney General’s office says a Connecticut-based health insurance company is ready to pay $55,000 to settle a complaint that it didn’t inform customers that personal information had been lost...
Vermont Added 33 New Captives in 2010
Jan 13 2011 // Vermont licensed 33 new captives last year, bringing the state’s total of licensed captives to 911, according to the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration. The new captives...
Kimbell Named Vermont Commissioner
Dec 17 2010 // Longtime state lobbyist Steve Kimbell will serve as insurance commissioner of Vermont, incoming Gov. Peter Shumlin has announced Kimbell will head the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care...
Ratings Recap: National Guaranty, Standard Casualty, Affiliates RRG
Nov 24 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of National Guaranty Insurance Company of Vermont (NGIC), both with stable outlooks. The...
Man Drops Claim in Vermont Over Condom in Burger
Oct 19 2010 // A former Vermont man who claimed he bit into a Burger King sandwich and found an unwrapped condom has dropped his lawsuit, with the restaurant agreeing to drop its counterclaim. The man and the store’s owners agreed...
Foremost Insurance Expands Dwelling Fire Program in Vermont
Sep 1 2010 // Foremost Insurance Group is expanding its Dwelling Fire program in Vermont effective September 1, 2010 and is introducing new Dwelling Fire policies and endorsements specifically designed for landlord, owner-occupied or...
Court: Vermont Can’t Collect on Pollution Cleanup
Aug 11 2010 // The state of Vermont can’t collect from a succession of owners of a property in downtown Barre that was polluted by a former dry cleaning shop, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled. The justices on Friday upheld a...
Declarations
Aug 2 2010 // New England Wind “The barn was completely flattened.” —Kati King, of Gorham, Maine, where 54 mph winds destroyed her 150-year-old, 40,000-square-feet cow barn. Similar scenes were recorded throughout New...
Lee Named Branch VP for The Hanover in New Hampshire and Vermont
Jul 27 2010 // The Hanover has appointed Michael H. Lee as branch vice president for Commercial Lines for the company’s New Hampshire and Vermont markets. In this new role, Lee will lead the company’s efforts to strengthen...
Vermont Sees Growth in Number of Captive Insurers
Jul 22 2010 // Seventeen new captive insurers formed in Vermont through the first half of the year, a rate that puts the state on pace to have one of the best years in its history in terms of new captives. Last year the state saw...
Vermont Jury Awards Man $380K for Turkey Hunt Wounds
Jul 14 2010 // A jury has awarded $380,557 to a Vermont turkey hunter hit by 52 shotgun pellets fired by another hunter. The Windsor County Superior Court jury returned the award last week against Ralph Townsend of Hartland for the May...
Vermont Captive Insurance Regulator Calls It Quits
Jun 11 2010 // A regulator who’s been a fixture in Vermont’s captive insurance industry for two decades is calling it quits. Peter Raymond, director of captive insurance for the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance,...
Police Seek Cause of Vermont House Explosion
Jun 4 2010 // Vermont State Police fire investigators are seeking the cause of an explosion that destroyed a house in the town of Norwich. Police say that when firefighters arrived at the New Boston Road home at about 6 p.m. Monday they...
Texting While Driving Ban Now Law in Vermont
Jun 2 2010 // It’s now illegal to text while driving in Vermont. Gov. Jim Douglas signed the ban into law Tuesday at the Montpelier High School, joining at least 25 states that have banned the practice. The measure also bans the...
Vermont Commissioner Resigns, Deputy Named as Replacement
May 20 2010 // Deputy Commissioner Mike Bertrand will be appointed insurance commissioner in Vermont, after Paulette Thabault resigned from that position earlier this week. Gov. Jim Douglas said Thabault will take a position with CVS...
Worker Misclassification Bill Advances in Vermont
May 10 2010 // Vermont lawmakers appear poised to pass a bill cracking down on misclassification of workers by employers looking to avoid paying workers’ compensation premiums and unemployment insurance tax. Backers of the measure...
