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Bills on Tap at Massachusetts Statehouse Target Lead in School Water

Lawmakers on Beacon Hill are pushing legislation aimed at improving the safety of drinking water in schools in part by requiring schools and child care centers to test every drinking water outlet each year for elevated lead levels. Legislation on …

NTSB Says Plane Didn’t Slip; It Entirely Missed Maine Runway

The National Transportation Safety Board says a United Express regional jet didn’t slide off a runway in Maine – it missed the runway altogether. A preliminary report indicates the 50-seat Embraer 145 approached to the right of the runway on …

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Virginia’s McLean Insurance Agency

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Potomac Falls, Va.-based McLean Insurance Agency Inc. Established in 1971, McLean Insurance Agency offers retail property and casualty, life and employee benefit brokerage and consulting services to businesses and individuals throughout the Eastern …

Vermont Hospital Email Hack Exposes Info of More Than 72,000

Officials at a Vermont hospital say the information of more than 72,000 people may have been exposed during an email hack. Rutland Regional Medical Center says the email accounts had information such as patient names, medical records and contact information, …

New Jersey Sues California Company Over ‘Ghost Guns’

New Jersey’s attorney general announced a lawsuit Friday against a California company that sells mail-order firearms parts that can be turned into working weapons, the first such action the state has taken since it banned so-called ghost guns last year. …

NTSB Says Impaired Truck Driver Likely Cause of GOP Train Crash in Virginia

A trash truck driver who had marijuana in his system likely caused a fatal collision last year with an Amtrak train that was carrying Republican lawmakers, federal investigators concluded. The National Transportation Safety Board’s final report said the crash in …

Q&A: Mitchell International’s Hatamian Talks Workers’ Comp’s Tech Transformation

Mitchell International’s product management and strategy group leader, Shahin Hatamian, recently spoke with Insurance Journal’s Elizabeth Blosfield about how technology has been transforming the workers’ compensation industry. “There’s going to be a lot more technology coming down the pipeline for …

New Jersey’s NJM Insurance Group Names Malone as CFO

NJM Insurance Group, a property and casualty insurer in the Mid-Atlantic region, has named Chris Malone as chief financial officer. Malone joins NJM with more than twenty-five years of financial and leadership expertise. In this role, he will oversee the …

New York’s SterlingRisk Insurance Hires McLaughlin as Program Sales Executive

SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Debbie McLaughlin as program sales executive. In this position, McLaughlin will conduct market outreach on behalf of SterlingRisk Program Products. Founded in 1932, SterlingRisk has offices in New York, …

New York Man Arrested for Alleged Car Dealership Insurance Fraud Scheme

A Bronx County, N.Y., man has been arrested and arraigned on a felony complaint for an alleged insurance fraud scheme. Barrington Mayne, who is not an insurance broker, allegedly used his position and contacts at various car dealerships throughout Brooklyn, …

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