A Cape Cod, Mass. woman is suing the town of Dennis and its two public golf courses after she wasn’t allowed to play in a men’s tournament with her father. Forty-three-year-old Elaine Joyce is a member of both the Dennis …
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has launched a Web site that allows auto insurance customers to compare sample auto premiums – a move that the state says will help consumer find the best deals as managed competition shifts into high gear. …
U.S. Senate and House committees are planning hearings on worker safety in the poultry industry following a report by The Charlotte Observer on House of Raeford, congressional leaders and aides said. “All Americans should be horrified at the conditions reported …
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna announced that Washington will receive nearly $1.7 million as part of a $41 million settlement between 29 states and Caremark Rx, LLC, one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits management companies. As part of …
Shareolders of The Commerce Group, Inc. voted at a special meeting this week to approve the Oct. 30, 2007 agreement for the acquisition of the company by Mapfre S.A. The company said 88 percent voted to approve the deal. Completion …
A new report shows that a key goal of the Massachusetts landmark health care law is being met. The law was designed to mandate health care for nearly all Massachusetts citizens, in part by offering subsidized insurance programs to poor …
A jury in Cambridge, Mass. has awarded $10 million in damages to a 58-year-old Somerville woman who suffered brain damage when she was struck by an MBTA bus. Louise Scialdone was waiting at a bus stop in February 2004 when …
A jury says Boston Scientific Corp. must pay $431 million in damages in a patent dispute over the medical device maker’s drug-coated stents. The company said that federal jury in Marshall, Texas reached the damages award in a patent infringement …
Frank Berry has been hired as director of Agency Sales and Marketing at Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. (NBIC), a member company of Blackstone Financial Group, Inc. Berry worked for 29 years at Liberty Mutual as a sales agent and as …
When a fire killed a Barre, Vermont mother and four children in 2005, there was something peculiar: As firetrucks arrived, the apartment was full of smoke and had a working smoke detector, but it wasn’t sounding its alarm. Months later, …
