Joseph G. Murphy has been named commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance. Murphy has served as first deputy commissioners since 2006, playing active roles in the implementation of the managed competition auto insurance regime and the day-to-day operations of …
New York regulators are expected to release new rules tomorrow that require agents to disclose to clients some aspects of their compensation, although the rules are more palatable to agents than previous proposed regulations, according to an agents’ trade group. …
New Jersey-based insurance brokerage The McIntyre Group has named Rick Killmeyer as marketing executive. He formerly served as sales manager of PC Helps Support in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, where he oversaw an eight-person sales team. Prior to then, Killmeyer held …
Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. were particularly battered by a weekend snowstorm that caused massive power outages and resulted in moderate structural damage to areas in the region. At least two deaths were reported, and now the insurance industry is …
An explosion at an under-construction energy plant in Central Connecticut has killed at least five workers and injured 12 others, prompting a major emergency response by local and state officials as they continue to search for survivors. Investigators say approximately …
Police say a serial arsonist is leaving behind playing cards and taunting notes for investigators at the scenes of a string of car fires in central Pennsylvania. Police in York County say a trail of playing cards have been left …
A Philadelphia man who staged a fake robbery and shot his own cousin as part of an elaborate conspiracy to help the cousin collect workers’ compensation insurance has pleaded guilty in Maryland to a single count of conspiracy to commit …
Most Massachusetts insurance agents who were appointed as exclusive representative producers (ERPs) under the state’s previous insurance regime have obtained voluntary contracts with insurers or have merged with other agencies as a result of the new, managed competition system, said …
Virginia lawmakers have passed bills that would boost the top speed limit in the state from 65 mph to 70. In the Senate, the bill passed on a 29-10 vote. Democratic Senator Creigh (Cree) Deeds of Bath County said the …
A judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against a Cape Cod author by the former boyfriend of murdered fashion writer Christa Worthington. Tim Arnold sued author Maria Flook in 2006, claiming in her book about the Worthington case, “Invisible …
