August 7, 2009
A Massachusetts man whose wife was killed by a construction worker at a fast food restaurant has settled a wrongful death lawsuit even as a jury weighed the case. A lawyer for Thomas Miller tells The Telegram & Gazette newspaper …
August 6, 2009
The New York Insurance Department recovered $13.6 million in the second quarter of the year for consumers and health care providers who filed complaints with the department, according to the department. Nearly 3,000 individuals filed complaints, which include health insurance, …
August 6, 2009
New Hampshire has appealed a lower court ruling denying its claim to a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance. The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the fiscal …
August 6, 2009
Federal authorities say a northeastern Pennsylvania businessman convicted of money laundering and fraud is behind bars and they are moving to revoke his bail. The FBI says 48-year-old Charles Costanzo was taken into custody at his Dunmore home on Saturday, …
August 5, 2009
Investigators are still trying to determine the source of noxious fumes at a Massachusetts trash disposal facility that sent 119 people to hospitals, including two who were listed in critical condition. Police and fire officials said as many as 10 …
August 5, 2009
Two families are suing the city of Bridgeport and the Connecticut Zoological Society over the deaths of two children who drowned when a minivan plunged into a pond in 2007. Relatives of 6-year-old Jayden Wilson and 2-year-old Julia Boyd allege …
August 5, 2009
Northeast personal lines insurer Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. reported that Chris Olie will assume the role of president, a position currently held by Hal Belodoff. Belodoff will become chairman of Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. and will continue his role as …
August 4, 2009
The Connecticut Insurance Department says it recovered approximately $1.3 million from insurers for consumers in the second quarter of the year. That amount is double the recovery made in the same quarter. Forty-four percent of complaints in the past quarter …
August 4, 2009
Massachusetts-based Arbella Insurance Group has named Eileen Currie vice president of commercial lines. She joins Arbella from Crum & Forster Insurance Co., where she held the position of chief marketing officer and senior vice president of field operations. She has …
August 4, 2009
National insurance brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired two New England offices of Atlanta-based Gresham & Associates Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The offices — which are in Portland, Maine and Cranston, Rhode Island — are managing general …