Latest Vermont Headlines
All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vermont Officials Worry about Flooding
Mar 18 2008 // Vermont officials are hoping against a quick warm-up for fear that fast melting of Vermont’s deep snow pack could trigger flooding. One potential trouble spot is the Deerfield River in Wilmington, where the town has...
Provost to Succeed Crouse as Chief Vermont Captive Regulator
Mar 17 2008 // When long-time regulator Leonard Crouse retires as deputy commissioner of the Vermont Captive Insurance Division in June, David F. Provost will step up to the post. Provost is an assistant chief examiner in the division...
States Urged to Lower Drinking Age to Reduce ‘Underground’ Drinking
Mar 10 2008 // Advocates acknowledge their argument is a hard sell politically but say it would be effective at curbing binge drinking More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement...
Vermont Cheers as IRS Drops Captive Insurance Tax Change
Mar 10 2008 // The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has dropped plans to change the way that captive insurance companies are taxed. U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said that the IRS informed them it has...
States Urged to Lower Drinking Age to Reduce ‘Underground’ Drinking
Mar 10 2008 // More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances. Proponents say the higher age...
Vt. Workers’ Comp Rates To Drop
Mar 5 2008 // Most Vermont employers for the second straight year will see lower workers’ compensation premiums when new state-approved loss cost rates become effective April 1. Rates for loss costs in the voluntary market will...
States Urged to Lower Drinking Age to Reduce ‘Underground’ Drinking
Mar 3 2008 // More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances. Proponents say the higher age...
IRS Agrees to Drop Captive Insurance Tax Change
Feb 21 2008 // The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has dropped plans to change the way that captive insurance companies are taxed. U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said that the IRS informed them it has...
IRS Tax Code Change Called Threat to Captive Insurance States
Feb 20 2008 // U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., is asking the U.S. Treasury to block a pending tax code change seen by some as a threat to Vermont’s captive insurance industry. Welch and three Democratic colleagues from states that...
Vermont Firefighters Join Campaign for Photoelectric Smoke Detectors
Feb 11 2008 // When a fire killed a Barre, Vermont mother and four children in 2005, there was something peculiar: As firetrucks arrived, the apartment was full of smoke and had a working smoke detector, but it wasn’t sounding its...
Vermont Captive Leader Crouse to Retire
Feb 10 2008 // Leonard Crouse, Vermont deputy commissioner of captive insurance and a fixture in the state’s captive insurance industry for 18 years, has announced his plans to retire effective June 1. For more than 30 years Crouse...
Court Asked to Decide Beneficiary in Vt. Case of Murdered Father
Jan 30 2008 // An insurance company holding a life insurance policy on a Vermont man who was shot to death — allegedly by his own son — wants a court to decide who gets the $150,000. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. asked U.S....
Welch Joins Vermont Mutual as Commercial Lines Underwriter
Jan 25 2008 // Michael P. Welch recently joined Vermont Mutual Insurance Group in Montpelier as a commercial lines underwriter. Welch spent the past 11 years with Underwriters Agency of New England as assistant vice president of...
Supreme Court to Review $6.8M Vt. Verdict Against Drug Maker
Jan 23 2008 // A drug manufacturer won Supreme Court review last week of a $6.8 million verdict in the case of a woman whose arm had to be amputated after she was injected with one of its medications. A jury in Vermont awarded the money...
Vermont Captive Insurance Leader Crouse to Retire
Jan 22 2008 // Leonard Crouse, Vermont deputy commissioner of Captive Insurance and a fixture in the state’s captive insurance industry for 18 years, has announced his plans to retire effective June 1. For more than 30 years Crouse...
Vermont Rethinks Law Curbing Drug Firms’ Use of Prescription Data
Jan 17 2008 // A new Vermont law restricting the drug industry’s use of data on doctors’ drug prescribing habits is facing a federal lawsuit and a new round of scrutiny. The law, which was amended in the waning days of last...
Judge Rules Vt. Statute of Limitations Not a Defense for Diocese
Jan 7 2008 // A Superior Court judge has overturned a jury ruling that Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese isn’t liable for a pedophile priest because a victim’s lawsuit was filed after the statute of limitations had...
Vermont Records Fewer Highway Deaths
Dec 28 2007 // Vermont is on track to post a decrease in traffic deaths in 2007. As of mid-December, 66 people had died on Vermont highways, compared with 87 in 2006 and 73 in 2005, according to the Governor’s Highway Safety...
Uninsured Drivers in Vermont Could Face Increased Fines
Dec 27 2007 // Uninsured drivers would face $500 fines under a bill that Vermont lawmakers plan to consider in their upcoming session. State Sen. Richard Sears, D-Bennington, said he has heard many complaints from people who have been...
Suspended Vermont Doctor Faces 21 Counts of Unprofessional Conduct
Dec 13 2007 // A former Burlington, Vt. eye doctor who beat federal fraud charges for performing allegedly unnecessary cataract surgeries has lost his latest battle, with a finding by the state Board of Medical Practice that he engaged...
