Latest Vermont Headlines
All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vermont Hospital Email Hack Exposes Info of More Than 72,000
Mar 25 2019 // Officials at a Vermont hospital say the information of more than 72,000 people may have been exposed during an email hack. Rutland Regional Medical Center says the email accounts had information such as patient names,...
Company Denies Responsibility for Vermont Ski Resort Fraud
Mar 19 2019 // The former owner of Vermont’s Jay Peak resort is fighting claims from a court-appointed receiver that it should pay millions in damages as part of a settlement. The Caledonian-Record reports Canadian Saint-Sauveur...
Gas Refineries Pay Vermont Settlement Over Fuel Additive
Mar 18 2019 // The Vermont attorney general’s office says more than two dozen of the country’s biggest gasoline refiners, including ExxonMobil and Shell Oil Company, are paying a $3.8 million settlement over the use of the...
Vermont Gets More Than $2M in Amtrak Rail Safety Grants
Feb 21 2019 // The Vermont Agency of Transportation is getting more than $2 million for safety upgrades along the route of the Amtrak Vermonter, addressing conditions that resulted in a 2015 derailment. The money from the Federal...
Vermont Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease for Third Year in a Row
Feb 20 2019 // Workers’ compensation insurance will continue to cost less for most Vermont employers when new rates approved by the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) become effective on April 1, 2019. This is the third rate...
Vermont Lawmakers Seek to Eliminate Insurance Pre-Authorization
Feb 6 2019 // Vermont legislators are seeking to ban insurance companies or Medicaid from requiring pre-authorization before approving medication-assisted treatment. Democratic Rep. Ann Pugh tells The Times Argus she wants to remove any...
Vermont’s Union Mutual Promotes Cook, Ryan and Miles
Jan 4 2019 // Union Mutual has promoted M. Joseph Cook, Schuyler M. Ryan and Matthew Miles. Cook was named vice president of Union Mutual and executive vice president of Community Mutual, a member of the Union Mutual Companies. Ryan was...
Insurer Suggests Vermont Man Tossed Gun in Sea After Grandfather’s Death
Jan 2 2019 // An insurance company investigating the sinking of Nathan Carman’s boat in 2016 is suggesting that he may have thrown a gun used to kill his grandfather into the ocean. National Liability & Fire Insurance Company...
Vermont Hires New Chief Information Security Officer
Dec 27 2018 // The state of Vermont has hired a new chief information security officer. The appointment of Nicholas Andersen was announced by the state last week. Agency of Digital Services Secretary John Quinn says Andersen’s...
Reuters Special Report: J&J Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder for Decades
Dec 17 2018 // Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why. She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate membrane surrounding her lungs and other organs. She knew it was as rare as it was deadly, a...
Vermont Town Votes to Join Law Firm’s Opioid Lawsuit
Nov 29 2018 // A Vermont town’s select board has voted to work with a national law firm that plans to sue opioid makers over the drug crisis. The Bennington Banner reports Bennington will not have to pay for litigation as part of...
Vermont Seeking Public Input on Regulating Contractors
Nov 27 2018 // Vermont officials are seeking a second round of feedback from the public on a proposal to regulate home improvement and construction contractors. Lauren Hibbert, of the Office of Professional Regulation with the Secretary...
Parts of Northern New England Hit with Heavy, Wet Snow
Nov 16 2018 // More than 6 inches of heavy, wet snow fell in parts of northern New England on Tuesday in one of the first significant snowfalls of the season. Caledonia and Essex counties in northeastern Vermont reported 4 inches to 7.5...
Vermont Construction Company Investigated After Death of Employee
Oct 22 2018 // Federal officials are investigating a Vermont roofing and construction company whose employee died in a fall at a job site in New Hampshire. The Brattleboro Reformer reports the Occupational Safety and Health...
Marsh Makes Two Senior Captive Solutions Leadership Appointments
Oct 3 2018 // Marsh, a global provider of insurance broking and risk management services, has made two senior leadership appointments within Marsh Captive Solutions. Effective January 1, 2019, Julie Boucher will assume direct leadership...
Declarations
Oct 1 2018 // Opioid Suit “While we cannot bring back the lives lost to opioid addiction, we can question whether Purdue has lived up to the decade-old promise they made to correct their behavior. The answer, unfortunately, is a...
What States Have Done, and Not Done, About Guns
Sep 28 2018 // Shortly after last year’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip, Ohio Gov. John Kasich convened a panel to explore possible reforms to state gun laws. A Republican, Kasich wanted to be sure its members clearly...
Vermont Insurance Agents Association Elects Plunkett as President
Sep 14 2018 // The Vermont Insurance Agents Association (VIAA) has elected Paul E. Plunkett, senior vice president and principal of Hickok & Boardman Insurance Group in Burlington, Vt., as its president. Plunkett’s involvement...
No Problems Cited in Preliminary NTSB Report for Vermont Plane Crash
Sep 12 2018 // A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board finds no apparent reason for a fatal plane crash last month in Brighton, Vermont. The Caledonian Record reports that it’ll likely be months before a...
Vermont Sues Opioid Drugmaker Over Marketing Practices
Sep 7 2018 // Vermont on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against drugmaker Purdue over what it called deceptive marketing of OxyContin and other prescription opioid painkillers that the attorney general says helped lead to the drug crisis in...
