Vermont News

Vermont Leaders Reach Compromise on Health Insurance Package

As many as 25,000 people in Vermont who have no health insurance will be able to get it under a compromise health care reform package reached among Gov. Jim Douglas and legislative leaders. The bill envisions extending insurance coverage to …

Vermont Joins States Making Insurance Fraud a Specific Crime

In what supporters hope amounts to a preemptive strike on insurance schemes, Vermont’s legislature on its last day of the 2006 legislative session passed a bill making insurance fraud a specific crime. Gov. Jim Douglas was expected to sign HB …

FOUNDER OF CALIF.-BASED BOLTON & CO. PASSES AWAY

Dorance Dean Bolton, founder of Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Company Insurance Brokers, passed away on April 21, 2006, at the age of 96. Bolton was a pioneer Southern California insurance broker and was a founding governor of what is now …

New Markets

HO-3 Homeowners in Texas Nuts & Bolts: The Republic Group, based in Dallas, introduced a new Homeowners Form 3 product in Texas. The company said the HO-3 is modeled after the ISO Homeowner form and is an all-perils product with …

Founder of Calif.-based Bolton & Co. Passes Away

Dorance Dean Bolton, founder of Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Company Insurance Brokers, passed away on April 21, 2006, at the age of 96. Bolton was a pioneer Southern California insurance broker and was a founding governor of what is now …

New Markets

HO-3 Homeowners in TexasTITLE: Nuts & Bolts: The Republic Group, based in Dallas, introduced a new Homeowners Form 3 product in Texas. The company said the HO-3 is modeled after the ISO Homeowner form and is an all-perils product with …

Vt. Gov. Douglas Rejects Democrats’ Health Reform Plan

Gov. Jim Douglas declared Friday that the health reform compromise signed by legislative Democrats on Friday was unacceptable and would not become law. “I will not,” Douglas said when asked directly whether he would sign the bill, signed just a …

Minn. Life Says Think ‘Partnership’ on Retirement Benefits

Public employers can retain valuable staff, attract new talent and help employees fund retirement by encouraging a shift from a “benefits” mentality to a “partnership” mentality. That’s the message Joe Chang from Minnesota Life Group Insurance will share on May …

Founder of Calif.-based Bolton & Co., Dorance D. Bolton, Passes Away

Dorance Dean Bolton, founder of Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton and Company Insurance Brokers, passed away on April 21, 2006, at the age of 96. Bolton was a pioneer Southern California insurance broker and was a founding governor of what is now …

Vermont Church Settles Abuse Lawsuit

A lawsuit filed by a former altar boy who claimed he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s has been settled for $965,000 as the case was due to go to trial. Michael Gay, 38, of South …