May 21, 2009
A lawsuit says neurosurgeons operated twice on a New York woman for brain and spinal cord problems she didn’t have. Kristy Pirozzolo is suing Long Island doctors Paolo Bolognese and Thomas Milhorat for $10 million. Pirozzolo says she now has …
May 20, 2009
A New Hampshire state employee has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and pay back more than $164,000 to clients she defrauded in her previous job as an insurance agent. Raye Ellen Douville of Bedford, who had pleaded …
May 20, 2009
Northeast Bank Insurance Group has expanded its presence in Southern Maine, adding Goodrich Insurance Associates of Berwick to the list of what is now eight agencies the bank has acquired in the last two years. In connection with the acquisition, …
May 20, 2009
Boston-based auto insurer Plymouth Rock Assurance has launched a new program that will allow any Massachusetts driver to receive free e-mail reminders 30 days before their license renewals, registration renewals and annual auto inspections. This program is an expansion of …
May 20, 2009
A suburban Albany, New York businessman remains jailed on charges he burned down a defunct rock club he’d recently acquired. Town of Colonie police say 43-year-old Akiva Abraham of Rexford is being held without bail Monday after being charged with …
May 19, 2009
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has approved an online defensive-driving course that will qualify drivers for insurance discounts, according to the company offering the course. The Improv Aware Driver Course, recently approved in New York, was first …
May 19, 2009
Direct writers continue to target the Massachusetts personal auto insurance market, as one major national carrier announced it has written its first policy in the state and another says it will begin writing direct in Massachusetts as early as the …
May 19, 2009
Connecticut-based insurance consulting firm Conning & Co. has named Stephen W. Keep as director. An experienced marketing executive in U.S. insurance asset management, he will be based in Hartford. Keep will be responsible for marketing Conning’s investment services and products …
May 18, 2009
The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, may have to sell assets to pay for settlements in child sexual abuse cases. Bishop Francis Malooly says settlements will probably exceed $9 million next month. But Diocesan spokesman Robert Krebs says officials won’t …
May 18, 2009
Police say a longtime employee at a New Jersey welding supplies shop was killed when a 60-pound oxygen tank he was filling exploded. The force of the blast last Wednesday morning at the J.W. Goodliffe and Son building in Linden …