A worker helping build the Boston area’s new casino has died. A spokesman for Wynn Boston Harbor said in a statement that the 56-year-old male worker died operating an excavator on site. The Middlesex District Attorney’s office says the man …
The former director of a Connecticut animal shelter has settled a lawsuit with a volunteer who was attacked by her pet dog. The Record-Journal reports that former Meriden Humane Society Director Marlena DiBianco reached a settlement Monday with Marlene Wall …
A $1.1 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit connected to a 2016 fatal highway crash in Windsor Locks, Conn. The Connecticut Law Tribune reports the family of Kevin Dutra agreed to the settlement last month with …
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with filing nearly $50,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for items allegedly lost or stolen while he was traveling around the country. Robert Cirino of Reading, Penn., was indicted on charges of second-degree insurance fraud …
Johnson & Johnson suffered its first trial loss in a lawsuit claiming its talc-based products including Johnson’s Baby Powder contain cancer-causing asbestos, with a New Jersey jury on Thursday ordering J&J and another company to pay $37 million in damages. …
Insurance Risk Services, a Sanford, Fla.-based provider of insurance inspection services and field underwriting support, is now conducting field inspections in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. These Northeast states have been added as part of the company’s strategic geographic expansion. …
Universal Insurance Holdings Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC), has commenced operations and written its first homeowners policy in New Hampshire. It has also launched Universal Direct, the direct-to-consumer online platform for UPCIC products, in the …
A.M. Best has removed from under review with negative implications, downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “aa-” from “aa” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A+ (Superior) for the members of Andover Companies Pool. The outlook assigned to …
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a national law firm headquartered in Woodbury, N.Y., is expanding its Insurance Coverage & Litigation Practice with the addition of three directors and officers liability partners in its New York City office. KDV now …
Jurors are set to weigh an investment banker’s claims that using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder for more than 30 years caused him to develop a deadly cancer linked to asbestos. A New Jersey jury will begin deciding Wednesday whether …
