September 21, 2021
GI Partners, a private investment firm, announced the recapitalization of Patriot Growth Insurance Services LLC, a national insurance agency. The move comes in partnership with Patriot Founder and CEO Matt Gardner. Summit Partners, which invested in Patriot in 2019, and …
September 21, 2021
Gilbert Insurance Agency Hires Bernazani as Account Executive Gilbert Insurance Agency hired Carmelina Bernazani as an account executive for personal and commercial lines. Bernazani will work out of Gilbert’s Reading, Massachusetts, office. With Carmelina’s addition to the team, Gilbert Insurance …
September 21, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed an administrative complaint against ABM Janitorial Services after a compliance evaluation by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs alleged systematic racial discrimination against Black and a smaller number of white applicants …
September 20, 2021
In Connecticut, a tree branch contacted a live high-voltage power line as a worker in an aerial lift cut it, electrocuting him. In Massachusetts, a falling tree branch struck and killed a worker cutting down oak trees, while a falling …
September 20, 2021
Three western Massachusetts towns are looking for a new home for their senior center after an environmental assessment found asbestos, lead paint and mold in the 90-year-old building they had been using. The South County Senior Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts, …
September 20, 2021
A woman who said her father, a former pastor of a Delaware church, sexually abused her as a child and trafficked her to other men, was awarded $1.5 million by a federal jury on Friday. Alicia Cohen, 41, said in …
September 17, 2021
The former owner of a Richmond, Virginia, assisted living facility pleaded guilty to health care fraud after spending more than $800,000 meant for residents’ care on travel, gambling expenses and personal debts, federal prosecutors said. Mable Jones owned and operated …
September 17, 2021
A former executive at a nearly 140-year-old shoe manufacturer in Massachusetts has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for embezzling $30 million from the company and spending it on luxury items and travel for himself and another person, …
September 17, 2021
Vermont Governor Phil Scott asked the federal government to help Bennington and Windham counties recover from summer flooding. Scott said communities in the two southern Vermont counties suffered an estimated $4 million in damage from flooding that occurred on July …
September 16, 2021
USG Insurance Services Names Partazana Director of Human Services USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agency, named Kathy Partazana as director of human resources in the Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, branch. Partazana joins the USG team with 24 …