Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise. Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold rates at current levels at least until …
The Judicial Conduct Board has begun disciplinary proceedings against a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge serving a 46-month federal prison sentence for insurance fraud. It was not immediately clear if ex-Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce could lose his pension if …
Massachusetts-based agency Provider Insurance has named Kerry Tyrrell director of its private client group. Tyrrell will manage private client group, personal lines department and act as a producer for the agency. She will be based in the agency’s Needham office. …
Specialty insurer Aspen has added two execs to its Connecticut-based U.S. surety team. James Mercier will serves as senior vice president, associate general counsel and claims, surety. Scott Sadowsky will serve as senior vice president, finance & operations Mercier joins …
Pennsylvania House lawmakers have passed a major tort reform bill, an agent-supported move that sets up a vote in the Senate that could happen as early as this month. The tort reform bill, also called the Fair Share Act, is …
AmWINS Brokerage of New York has named Robert Hegarty assistant vice president and casualty broker. Hegarty 15 years of insurance industry experience, both as an underwriter and a wholesale broker, particularly in the areas of construction, habitational, products liability, healthcare …
Connecticut officials say they are investigating a charter bus company that allegedly transported 250 students to Washington, D.C., on unregistered and uninsured buses. The state Department of Motor Vehicles says its inspectors visited Affordable Bus Charter Inc. in Northford on …
A former high school football player has sued a western Pennsylvania school district over concussions sustained during games in 2007. The suit filed in Pittsburgh federal court says 19-year-old Zachary Alt struggles with the symptoms of brain injuries because the …
People who are awarded civil judgments against multiple parties would no longer be able to collect all of it from any single defendant under a bill that Pennsylvania Republicans in the state House moved near to a final vote on …
A New York man who became a quadriplegic after he fell from the Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island on his honeymoon has settled with the city for an undisclosed sum, but the trial in his lawsuit against the state …
