Massachusetts News

Raising the bar on liquor liability training

Are your clients willing to risk the loss of their liquor license, their business, and perhaps even their home and other personal assets? That’s what’s at stake when the owner of a business that serves alcoholic beverages fails to carry …

New Markets

Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

Lawyers Overseeing Lawyers: Can lawyers police themselves? A new look at self-regulation

No country has as many lawyers as the United States – more than 152,000 in California alone – three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

Business Moves

Homeowners of America Insurance Co. A new property and casualty insurer, Homeowners of America Insurance Com-pany, announced it has opened for business in Irving, Texas. Homeowners specializes in protecting residential property for Texans. The company will sell its products through …

New Markets

Equipment Policies Nuts & Bolts: Britt Paulk Insurance Agency Inc. is offering an equipment policy program that includes agriculture, forestry, construction and lawn and garden. The coverage is first party physical damage for contractors’ equipment. Classes include contractors, agricultural, forestry, …

Fraud Roundup

Wash. trooper accused of taking workers’ comp while off fishing A Washington state trooper accused of falsely claiming $20,000 worth of workers’ compensation benefits has been charged in Olympia, Wash., with theft and perjury. Thirty-five-year-old James A. Long of Chinook, …

Lawyers Overseeing Layers

No country has as many lawyers as the United States — more than 152,000 in California alone — three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

Mass. Man Pleads Guilty to Workers Comp Fraud Charges

A Sutton, Mass. man pleaded guilty to worker’s compensation fraud and larceny over $250 in Worcester Superior Court, according to Attorney General Tom Reilly. Hal Tyree, 51, of Sutton pleaded guilty to one charge each of workers’ compensation fraud and …

States Lack Controls Over Workers’ Comp Drug Costs

Public policymakers are considering cost containment measures to bring the costs of prescription drugs used to treat injured workers more into line with similar costs in group health or government insurance programs, according to an analysis by the Workers Compensation …

Supreme Court to Hear States’ Case Against EPA Over Climate Change

Running for president, George W. Bush said he was ready to regulate carbon dioxide. But in early 2001, shortly after taking office, he changed his mind. It would be too expensive to force reductions of the leading heat-trapping “greenhouse gas” …