May 14, 2009
Only those customers who weren’t reimbursed for fraudulent charges may sue the Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain over a data breach that exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers to computer hackers, a federal judge has ruled. The decision by …
May 8, 2009
Jennifer Curran could only sit in the pews of her Roman Catholic church over the years and watch as bride after bride — friends, her two sisters — walked down the aisle. Now that her home state of Maine has …
May 7, 2009
Missouri has become the latest state to join a national movement in requiring cigarettes to be self-extinguishing. The Missouri House voted 137-16 on May 5 to give final approval to legislation that requires the special type of cigarettes starting in …
May 4, 2009
Diane Sammer and her partner, Pam Dennis, were careful to sign papers giving Sammer power of attorney over Dennis’ affairs. Yet after Dennis died of a heart attack and her body was to be cremated, the undertaker refused to accept …
May 4, 2009
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May 1, 2009
Jack M. Rader, executive vice president and COO of Farmers Alliance Companies in McPherson, Kan., was elected chairman of the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) at the association’s annual meeting held in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Rader succeeds James …
April 28, 2009
TD Insurance Inc. has hired Linda Bogardus as an account manager in the Core Division of Commercial Lines. Bogardus, who is based in Burlington, Vermont, will oversee marketing and servicing large commercial insurance accounts throughout the region. She has more …
April 28, 2009
Concord, New Hampshire-based Phenix Mutual Fire Insurance Co., will become an affiliate of The Motorists Insurance Group, Phenix announced. The agreement must be approved by regulators in New Hampshire and Ohio, where Motorists is headquartered. Phenix, which operates in New …
April 22, 2009
Dry, windy conditions across Vermont are being blamed for brush fires, including one that destroyed a house in Lyndon. Vermont State Police Detective Sgt. Fred Cornell says the fire Monday in Lyndon — believed to have started with an outdoor …
April 20, 2009
Head Games: That’s Our Stand “We are pleased with the response to this offer and look forward to digging into the data.” —Tom Warden, assistant vice president of Allstate Research and Planning Center, which is working to determine whether brain …