Massachusetts News

Declarations

Declarations Darrell West, a political science professor at Brown University in Rhode Island, commenting on Democrats with seniority being positioned after the midterm election to become chairs of influential committees in Congress. Martin O’Malley, newly elected Democratic governor of Maryland. …

ELECTION REPORT

45 CONGRESSIONAL CLOUT U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania is among a number of Northeast Democrats poised to chair key insurance committees in Washington. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley 44 Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick 44 New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer

10 N.Y. agents protest incidents as red flags

Should mere incidents affect pricing? 10 Laptop stolen from broker HRH deals with lost data on Villanova N1 Employee crime: big threat to small firms More than one in three firms experience theft N1 Commercial premiums continue to fall All …

Power shift in the political landscape

With Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, we’ll likely see action on a number of insurance issues. Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic …

Power shift in the political landscape

With Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, we’ll likely see action on a number of insurance issues. Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic …

People

Greg Thompson, president and CEO of THOMCO, is the new president of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association, a national organization serving program managers. Thompson joined THOMCO in 1979, after two years in New York with Marsh and McLennan. Since …

Power shift in the political landscape

Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic candidates wrest control of both houses of Congress, gain a majority of the governorships and take control of …

Maryland Considering Mandatory Health Insurance

The Maryland Health Care Commission is beginning work on a plan that could be presented to the legislature as early as January that would require all Marylanders to buy health insurance. The draft proposal would create an insurance exchange offering …

Democratic Congress OK for industry traditionally tied to Republicans

News Currents The new Congress may be blue on Capitol Hill, but insiders say that’s not necessarily a bad color for the insurance industry. “The more things change, the more they may remain pretty much the same,” said National Association …

Lame duck Romney team pushes ahead with high risk plan change

Opponents of the ARP have urged Bowler to leave the decision of what to do about the high risk system to the incoming Patrick administration. News Currents Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler said she intends to finish what she started …