Maine Approves 19% Drop in Workers’ Compensation Costs Starting in April March 26, 2024 Newly-installed Maine Insurance Superintendent Robert Carey announced approval of an average workers’ compensation insurance loss cost decrease of 19%. The...
Coming and Going, Extended Premises Rules Don’t Help Employee Injured on Crosswalk March 25, 2024 An employee of a diagnostics firm in Virginia who was injured when she fell on a crosswalk on her way...
Investigation Underway Into Cause of Pennsylvania House Fire That Killed Five March 25, 2024 Investigators were searching Thursday for the cause of a fire that tore through a house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, killing...
Police Identify Five Killed in Private Jet Crash Near Rural Airport March 25, 2024 Virginia State Police have identified the five people who were killed when a small private jet crashed as it approached...
Virginia Still Battling Shenandoah Valley Wildfires March 24, 2024 By Sarah Rankin Crews who have been battling still-burning wildfires in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley this week have gotten an assist from rain and...
Vermont Communities Hit by Summer Flooding Seek $3.5M to Elevate 20 Homes March 22, 2024 By Lisa Rathke Two of the Vermont communities hardest hit by last summer’s catastrophic flooding have requested $3.5 million in state funding to...
People Moves: Massaro Joins Hartford in Northeast; Alliant Adds Spina in New York March 22, 2024 The Hartford, headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, appointed Matthew Massaro head of sales and underwriting for its middle and large commercial...
Medical Marijuana Law Does Not Impair Employers’ Right to Drug-Free Workplace March 22, 2024 By Andrew G. Simpson A Connecticut employer has the right to terminate an employee who is impaired by medical marijuana in the workplace. The...
A Bridge Too Small: Historic Covered Bridges Threatened by Trucks With GPS for Cars March 22, 2024 By Lisa Rathke One of Vermont’s historic covered bridges has fallen under threat from modern technology. Box truck drivers relying on GPS continually...
CyberSaint Raises $21M for Automating, Quantifying Cyber Risk Management March 21, 2024 Boston-based cyber risk management firm CyberSaint reports it has raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Riverside Acceleration...