Latest Vermont Headlines
All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vermont Warns Residents of Asbestos Danger at Old Mines
Nov 10 2008 // The state of Vermont is warning people to stay away from an abandoned asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell because of the health threat posed by asbestos. Scientists studied health records and death certificates from towns...
It Figures
Nov 2 2008 // $205 Million The amount the state of Vermont has finally received in a lawsuit against accounts for an insurance company that went bankrupt a quarter century ago and left about 20,000 people in several states with...
Amputee’s Case Asks If FDA Label Immunizes Drug Firms from Liability
Oct 30 2008 // When Diana Levine turned 63 recently, her daughter made her birthday card, drawing on Greek mythology with an illustration of Diana the Huntress, her bow string drawn taut, an arrow ready to fly. But the arm pulling at the...
Vermont Gets $205 Million from Failed Ambassador Insurance After 25 Years
Oct 27 2008 // The state of Vermont has received $205 million in a lawsuit against accounts for an insurance company that went bankrupt a quarter century ago and left about 20,000 people in several states with outstanding claims. The...
Boston’s ‘Biggest Loser’ Indicted in Insurance Fraud Case
Oct 1 2008 // A Suffolk County grand jury returned indictments against a Boston man in connection with allegedly attempting to defraud insurance companies by reinsuring expensive jewelry that had allegedly been stolen, and for allegedly...
Vermont’s $183M Judgment Against Ambassador’s Accountant Upheld
Sep 22 2008 // The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a judgment of $182.9 million in a malpractice case against the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers for its dealings with the failed Ambassador Insurance Co. Ambassador...
U.S. Court Upholds Vermont’s $183M Ambassador Insurance Judgment
Sep 11 2008 // The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued has upheld a judgment of $182.9 million in a malpractice case against the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers for its dealings with the failed Ambassador Insurance...
Business Moves
Aug 4 2008 // Tokio Marine, Philadelphia Insurance Japan’s Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. has agreed to acquire Philadelphia Consolidated, a U.S. property/casualty insurance company offering specialty commercial property and casualty...
Connecticut Fines Vermont Mutual Insurance Over Agent Licensing
Jul 21 2008 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan has fined Vermont Mutual Insurance Co. $144,000 for violations of state law. A market conduct exam conducted by survey alleged that Vermont Mutual had 104 agents who...
Vermont Counties Eligible for Federal Aid for June Flooding Damage
Jul 17 2008 // President Bush has declared Addison and Franklin counties disaster areas, making them eligible for federal assistance in repairing damage from last month’s flooding. The federal funds are available to state and local...
AIG, Vermont Mutual to Enter Mass. Personal Auto Insurance Market
Jul 14 2008 // Giant insurer American International Group has decided to enter the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market, according to The Boston Globe. But AIG is not alone. In addition, Vermont Mutual will begin selling...
Vermont Road Fatalities Spike in June
Jul 10 2008 // The number of traffic fatalities is up in Vermont this year, but state officials say they can’t point to a reason why. There were 12 fatalities in June, up from seven in May and eight in April. Through the first six...
Embattled Vermont Hotel Lacked Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Jun 23 2008 // The Cortina Inn in Killington, Vermont, which closed two months ago after being linked to Legionnaires’ disease, has filed for bankruptcy. But a bankruptcy court judge in Connecticut dismissed the inn’s case...
Vermont Diocese with $8.7M Abuse Verdict Can’t Find Insurance Policy
Jun 23 2008 // Many Roman Catholics believe that the worst of the clergy sex abuse scandal is over. But in the Diocese of Burlington, it’s deepening. The case of one cleric, assigned to Vermont parishes in the 1970s despite...
Vermont Governor Signs Captive Insurance Law Changes
Jun 16 2008 // Governor Jim Douglas has signed into law a bill making changes to Vermont’s banking and insurance laws, including provisions for streamlining and growing the state’s captive insurance industry. The bill also...
Vermont Governor Signs Captive Insurance Law Changes
Jun 6 2008 // Governor Jim Douglas has signed into law a bill making changes to Vermont’s banking and insurance laws, including provisions for streamlining and growing the state’s captive insurance industry. The bill also...
Vermont Requires Photoelectric Smoke Detectors in 2009
Jun 2 2008 // Two years after a fire killed five people in Barre, a new law aimed at preventing similar tragedies is in place in Vermont. Signed by Gov. Jim Douglas, the law requires the installation of photoelectric smoke detectors in...
Vermont Diocese to Appeal $8.7 Million Sex Abuse Verdict
May 22 2008 // Vermont’s top Roman Catholic clergyman has written to parishioners around the state, apologizing to the victim in a priest sex abuse case but saying the church will appeal last week’s $8.7 million verdict...
After Verdict in Abuse Case, Vermont Judge Puts Lien on Church
May 20 2008 // A judge has agreed to put a lien of more than $10 million on property including the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, to secure damages won by the plaintiff in a suit alleging sexual abuse...
Eight Lawsuits Filed Over Failed Vermont Heating System
May 19 2008 // Eight lawsuits have been filed against companies involved with the heating system that malfunctioned at the Redstone Apartments near the University of Vermont in January, 2005, killing one person and sickening others. The...
