Massachusetts News

Mass. Reports More Drunk Driving Arrests, Rehabs Under New Law

State officials say that since Melanie’s Law was enacted, more suspected drunken drivers are being arrested, and more repeat offenders are completing a program to keep them from drinking and driving. Motor Vehicles Registrar Rachel Kaprielian said nearly 20 percent …

Climate-warming Methane Levels Rose Fast in 2007

Levels of climate-warming methane — a greenhouse gas 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide — rose abruptly in Earth’s atmosphere last year, and scientists who reported the change don’t know why it occurred. Methane, the primary component of natural …

Mass. Insurance Agency President Named to Turnpike Board

Gov. Deval Patrick swore in the newest member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board this week, but that formality did not stop the new board member, John Jenkins, from weighing in last week and helping postpone the group’s next meeting …

Labo Joins Mass. Insurance Agency Rogers & Gray

Agency President Charles N. Robinson announced the recent addition of Eric Labo to Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency, Inc., as a personal lines sales executive. Prior to joining the agency, Labo was employed by Wells Fargo Financial. Rogers & Gray …

Companies to Pay $312K in Mass. Oil Spill

Three companies allegedly responsible for spilling about 18,000 gallons of fuel oil into the Chelsea River and Mill Creek in Revere in Massachusetts have agreed to pay $312,500 to a restoration fund. The oil was released in 2006 from a …

Safety Insurance Expands Auto, Home Offerings to New Hampshire

Safety Insurance Group, Inc., a provider of auto, home and business insurance in Massachusetts, recently announced that it will begin offering personal auto and homeowners insurance to New Hampshire residents. According to industry data, the New Hampshire personal lines Insurance …

Sylvester Joins Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency

Tonya I. Sylvester has been named a sales executive at Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency Inc. of Massachusetts. Sylvester will specialize in personal lines sales, and work out of the agency’s Canton and Plymouth offices. She brings to Rogers & …

Regulatory Backlash?

Have the free-wheeling, capitalism-at-all-cost titans of business who maintain the market will fix all ills had their day β€” at least for now? For the last 30 years deregulation has been all the rage β€” from the airline industry to …

People

Calabasas, Calif.-based Lionheart Insurance Services hired Pat Piccinonno and Joe Weckerle Jr. to head its newly opened Irvine, Calif., office. Piccinonno, appointed president, has 35 years of insurance management and production experience, most recently with R.E. Chaix, Black/White and Yates …

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