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Massachusetts Couple Charged With $627K in Workers’ Compensation Fraud and More

A Hopkinton, Massachusetts couple has been arrested and charged in connection with separate schemes to defraud their workers’ compensation insurance carriers, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and their mortgage lender. According to the U.S. Attorney, Ronaldo Solano and Adriana Solano …

Dozens Allege Child Sexual Abuse in Maryland Treatment Program Run by Catholic Order

More than three dozen people allege in two lawsuits filed Tuesday that they were sexually abused as children at a Maryland residential program for youths that closed in 2017 following similar allegations. In the separate lawsuits, attorneys detailed decades of …

Police: Private Jet Was Short on Approach to Virginia Runway When It Crashed, Killing 5

A small private jet was short on its approach to a rural Virginia airport’s runway when it struck trees and crashed into a hillside and burned, killing all five people aboard, state police said Monday. The twin-engine IAI Astra 1125 …

Investigation Underway into Cause of Home Explosion That Killed 2 in Pittsburgh Suburb

A massive explosion killed two people and destroyed a house in the Pittsburgh area near the Ohio River, authorities said Tuesday. Aerial images from the scene in Crescent Township in the northwest Pittsburgh suburbs showed smoking ruins with the structure …

Massachusetts Appeals Denial of Federal Disaster Aid for Fall Flooding

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is appealing a decision of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deny the state’s request for a major disaster declaration to support cities and towns battered by severe weather and flooding in September. Healey said the …

Judge’s Ruling on Girl’s Death Creates Path for Wrongful Death Claim

A judge has ruled that a 5-year-old New Hampshire girl missing since 2019 is legally dead and her mother can become administrator of her estate, just weeks after the child’s father was convicted of killing her. Crystal Sorey “has carried …

People Moves: EPIC Adds Romanelli; New Hampshire Promotes Dexter, Heaton

EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants (EPIC), headquartered in San Francisco, named Jim Romanelli as executive vice president. Based in New York, Romanelli will focus on growth in the Northeast region. Romanelli has over three decades of experience in the insurance …

Virginia Governor Faces Decision on Bad Faith Bill Opposed by Auto Insurers

Property/casualty insurers are urging Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to veto a “bad faith” insurance claims measure that they contend will “open the floodgates of litigation against insurance companies” and raise motor vehicle insurance premiums for consumers and businesses in the …

Brown & Brown Acquires Assets of Northeast Dealer Services Firm, DealerMax

Insurance agency Brown & Brown announced that its dealer services division has acquired the assets of DealerMax. DealerMax, founded in 1982 by Jim Maxim, Sr. as Maxim Automotive, serves car dealer customers in Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeast offering finance …

How 9 Men Stole 45 Cars Over 6 Months During COVID, Then Got Caught

New York Attorney General Letitia James has announced the guilty pleas and sentencing of nine members of a Bronx car theft ring for their roles in the theft of 45 vehicles during a six-month period from April to October 2020. …

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