A task force of state, regional and federal officials is investigating a string of suspicious weekend fires in Massachusetts, including one in which two people died. At least nine fires were reported early Sunday in houses and cars within a …
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the owners and agents of a Bay State insurance agency, alleging the business pocketed $3.4 million in fees it disguised as insurance premiums. The lawsuit names Peabody-based Kilgore Insurance …
The deregulation of the Massachusetts auto insurance market has driven up prices, boosted insurer profits, reduced consumer protections and generally created confusion in the marketplace, according to a new report by the state’s attorney general. The report, which comes roughly …
A Northampton woman claims in a lawsuit filed against the Holyoke nursing home where she worked for three years that she was fired for complaining about improper treatment of patients. Joan Johnson is seeking $56,000 in damages from the companies …
A church custodian who was injured in a ladder fall, but waited nearly five years to file a workers’ comp claim is barred from collecting benefits, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The employee in this case, James Sullivan, was …
Beecher Carlson expanded its National Energy practice by appointing Jacklyn Kearns senior vice president. Kearns has 28 years of insurance and risk management experience. She joins Charlie Pierpont in Beecher Carlson’s Darien, Conn., office. Prior to that, she served as …
Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies. Here are the headlines …
XL Capital announced that Clayton S. Rose, a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School and a former executive of J.P. Morgan & Co., has joined the Company’s Board of Directors. While at J.P. Morgan, Rose headed each …
Lawyers for victims of a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people have asked a judge to approve a trust fund that will pay out $176 million in settlement proceeds. The request was made in court papers filed Wednesday. …
Richard P. Rooney has been named vice president of inland marine for Harleysville Insurance’s Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. In this position, he oversees the company’s inland marine underwriting efforts in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New …
