East News for January 2007

• N.Y. Agents Award Scholarship Named in Kozel’s Honor to Bresin
• Pa. Couple Awarded $1.5 Million Against Hormone Drug Maker Wyeth
• New Mass. Health Insurance Law Would Force Some to Buy More Coverage
• New D.C. Metro Chief Announces Safety Program
• Perr & Knight Expands Rate Filings for Mass., R.I., Maine and Vt.
• Mass. Universal Health Connector Pays Executives Well
• State Alleges Cover-Up in Pa. Coal Mine Worker’s Death
• Virginia Panel Endorses Lowering Penalty for Riding without Helmet
• The Hanover Net Income Down in 4th Quarter But Up for Year
• Baird Promoted to Executive VP at Colemont-Hartford
• Jimcor’s Swartwout Receives Moll Scholarship from N.Y. Agents
• Burns & Wilcox Adds Ebert in Baltimore
• Maine Legislature Protests Federal Driver’s License Law
• ProMutual Plans No Rate Increase in 2007 for Mass. Physicians
• The Hanover Provides Agents with Inland Marine Specialists Team
• Ex-Pats’, Current Notre Dame Coach Files Suit Over Obesity Surgery
• Mass. Auto Insurance Fraud Crackdown Paying Off for Drivers
• Mass. Panel Seeks More Low Cost Health Plan Options
• Previously-Rejected Cell Phone Ban on Redial in Maryland Legislature
• The Hartford’s Data Outsouring Reported to Affect 400 Conn. Jobs
• Conn. AG Bill Targets Steering Customers to Select Body Shops
• N.Y. Assemblyman Grannis in Line to Be State Environmental Commissioner
• Mass. Ski Area Closes After Losing Insurance Coverage
• R.I. High Court Throws Out Lawsuit Based on Bad Job Reference
• Harleysville Appoints Gorman, Diegel for Mid-Atlantic Region
• Mass. Auto Insurer Tops in Spending on Beacon Hill Lobbyists
• Vermont Captive Insurance Industry Continues to Expand
• Conn. AG Files Bill to Block Insurers from Requiring Storm Shutters
• Great American, Lindsay Group Target Education Risks in Pa.
• Mass. Gov. Patrick Derails Romney’s High Risk Pool Changes
• N.Y. Man Charged with 18 Arsons Says He Did It ‘Just for Fun’
• Conn. Phone-y Drivers Could Be Called Upon to Pay Bigger Fines
• Northeast Nuke Plants Alerted After Minn. Plant Problem
• N.J.’s Proformance Names Wheeler General Counsel
• N.Y.’s Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy Promotes 5 to Added Responsibilities
• U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Maryland’s Wal-Mart Mandate
• Conn. AG Urges Release of Audit on Health Insurers’ Coverage Denials
• Delaware Moves Swiftly to Enact Major Workers’ Comp Reform
• Lamberti Named Chief Operating Officer at Mazonson in Mass.
• Insurer to Investigate Vermont Diocese’s Handling of Priest Sex Abuse
• Pa. Maternity Clothier Settles Suit Alleging Bias Against Pregnant Workers
• Regnault to Oversee New York Region for Willis
• Fire at Conn. Yacht Club That Destroyed 26 Boats Being Probed
• Virginia Bill Would Require Notice When Personal Data Is Lost or Stolen
• N.Y. Agents to Recognize Fastman as Professional Executive of Year
• Commerce to Continue 5% AAA Mass. Auto Discount
• Prosecutors Seek Severance Paid Former Md. Insurance Fund Chief
• R.I. Gov. Carcieri Adds to Control Over Beacon Mutual
• Deschene Joins Demetriou Group in New England
• New Hope Pa. Hopes New Hydrants Lower Insurance Rates
• Mass. Diocese Ordered to Release Sex Abuse Documents to Insurers
• Robinson Named Director of Md. Insurance Government Relations
• Delaware Agents Groups to Merge
• Del. Governor Hopes Workers’ Comp Reform Will Influence Chrysler
• Mass. High Court: Paralyzed Patron Can Sue Bar
• Oneonta, N.Y. Business Owner Pleads Gulity to Insurance Fraud
• Prudential Buys Naming Rights to N.J. Devils’ Arena
• Conn. Communities Pressured to Repair Flood Control Systems
• ‘Apprentice’ Reject Accuses Trump of Age Bias in Hiring
• Progressive’s Drive Enters Mass. Commercial Auto Market
• Former N.Y. Insurance Chief Mills Joins Deloitte & Touche
• Citation Re Offers Stand-Alone Terrorism Coverage
• N.Y. Reports Successful Rehabilitation of Interboro Mutual
• In Mass., Bowler Steps Down; Murphy Named Interim Chief
• Revere Next Target for Mass. Anti-Fraud Task Force
• NYMAGIC Continues Exess Workers’ Comp Writings
• MEMIC Names Funk as Underwriter in N.Y., Conn.
• Philadelphia Consolidated Makes Forbes’ Platinum 400
• Thabault Promoted to Top Job at Vermont Regulatory Agency
• A New President – and a New Era – For R.I.’s Beacon Mutual
• Fugitive Minister, Damaging Adjustor Among Pa.’s Top Fraudsters in 2006
• Parkway Insurance Upgraded After Acquisition by Progressive
• Anderson Named Marketing Chief for Wholesaler S.H. Smith
• Burns & Wilcox Adds Bodner to N.J. Staff
• OneBeacon Names Sibilia Senior V.P. of Claims
• Geico Gecko Greets N.J. Motorists on Public Road Signs, Toll Plaza
• Enrollment Begins for New Mass. Health care Plan
• N.Y. Gov. Spitzer Cites Workers’ Comp Reform as Legislative Priority
• Roadway Deaths Down in N.H.
• Alfa Completes Virginia Mutual Conversion; Expands to Tenn.
• N.J. Eyes Capping Doctors’ Charges for Auto Accident Patients
• Fire Deaths Down, Motorcycle Fatalities Up in Maine
• Rule Restricting R.I. Crime Victim Compensation Challenged
• Mass. Auto Insurers Among Largest Donors to Patrick Inaugural
• Outgoing Md. AG Curran Interested in Workers’ Comp Fund Job

East News Archives