State fire investigators have concluded that a fatal explosion at a condominium project last summer was not the result of the delivery of odorless propane gas from a Westfield, Mass., distributor, as initially thought. The report from Fire Marshal Stephen …
Six years ago, Harleysville Group was in need of a big change. The Pennsylvania-based insurer had just come out of the worst performing year in its history. That’s when newly appointed CEO Michael Browne — who declared the company’s performance …
A Connecticut bar has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine and have its license suspended for 10 days for serving two customers who were killed in a motorcycle crash after leaving the tavern. John Suchy, director of the state Liquor …
A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a bar patron who claims he and another customer should have been searched for weapons before they shot one another in February. Forty-two-year-old Thomas Galloway, of Arnold, filed the …
Pennsylvania-based wholesaler USG Insurance Services has named Jason Holloman as property broker specializing in large commercial and CAT-exposed risks. Holloman most recently served as a wholesale property broker with Swett & Crawford. He has also held positions with Arch and …
A Boston private equity firm has acquired a majority interest in New Jersey-based York Risk Services Group. ABRY Partners purchased the majority interest in York from another private equity firm, Odyssey Investment Partners, for an undisclosed sum, York said. York …
Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual will pay a combined $7.5 million to New York and Connecticut to settle allegations that it steered insurance contracts by paying kickbacks large insurance brokers. In settling the suits, New York will receive $5.5 million and …
A Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after admitting that she and her husband intentionally ate glass particles, then submitted false insurance claims. Mary Evano was also ordered last week to pay more than …
A newspaper reporter is suing a Maine ski area two years after breaking her back while riding inside a giant ball down a ski trail for a story. Rebekah Metzler, of Brunswick, worked for the Sun Journal of Lewiston in …
Connecticut public safety officials say nearly 28,000 violations were recorded during the first four months of a crackdown on unsafe trucking. The stepped-up enforcement started in August after several highway crashes involving tractor-trailers, dump trucks and other big rigs. Gov. …
