Agency stops distributing its 20,000 flyers offering a rebate when the DOI gets involved.
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DiVirgilio Insurance, Inc. Expands Its On-Time Payroll, Inc. Subsidiary With Acquisition of Click Payroll
This is the second payroll services company that DiVirgilio Insurance has acquired.
Salem Five Insurance Acquires Lynn’s A. James Lynch Insurance Agency Inc.
The insurance arm of SalemFive Bank expands its presence on the North Shore with its latest acquisition.
The Hilb Group Adds MillBrook Benefits and Insurance Services To Its Growing List of Massachusetts Acquisitions
The East Longmeadow independent insurance agency is the latest addition to The Hilb Group.
Alera Group Broadens Northeast Footprint With New Hampshire Agency Acquisition
The company has acquired the New England Employee Benefits Company .
Start Your Engines: The Mass RMV’s Low Plate Lottery For 2021 Has Begun!
There are 200 low-number license plates available this year, including eight three-digit plates.
Supreme Court Holds Computer Fraud Act No Longer Applies to Computer Use Policies And Confidentiality Agreements
In 2014, Agency Checklists first wrote about the FCAA Act which the Supreme Court has now limited in scope.
Octogenarian Charged With Insurance Fraud For Burning Down His Apartment Building
The charges all arose from a July 7th fire at the four-apartment on Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington
Company Newswire
Söderberg Insurance Services, Inc. Now Accepting Applications For its 2021 Frances R. Söderberg Scholarship
Recent Bindable Research Exposes Changes in Insurance Purchasing Preferences
Office Gallery International Completes Office Design of New Building for E. A. Stevens Co., Inc.
SAN Group Adds 16 New Member Agencies in First Half of 2021
Massachusetts Economic & Legislative News
New Law Leaves Facial Recognition Debate Unsettled
Supporters, Skeptics Testify Before New Commission
Fair Housing Laws Lack Teeth, Critics Say
New Penalties Proposed to Address Discrimination
Package Stores Aim For Alcohol License Compromise With Food Stores
Competing Ballot Proposals Possible in ’22
Weekly Roundup – From Biogen To Provincetown
Recap and analysis of the past week in state government in Massachusetts.
House Overrides Baker on Charitable Giving Tax Deduction
‘Just Not Now,’ House Revenue Chair Says
Baker Signs Off on Mail-In Voting Restoration
The supplemental budget bill also establishes a new MBTA board of directors.
Transportation Emissions Pact Opponents Predict Fuel Shortages by 2025
Massachusetts is one of three states, along with the District of Columbia, invested in launching a cap-and-trade program, known as the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), by 2023.
Most of Mass. Seeing ‘Substantial’ or ‘High’ Virus Transmission
COVID infection rates on the rise again.
Insurance Coverage Cases
MA Court Dismisses Lender’s Claim Auto Insurer’s Total Loss Calculations Violated DOI Regulation
MA Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal Of Late E&O Claim Alleging Agent Liable For Advising Insured To Only Keep Policies For 7 Years
Daughter Denied $142,000 Loss Under Dad’s Gloucester Homeowner’s Policy Because Not A “Household Member” Per Policy Terms
Keches Law Group To Pay $300,000 In Settlement Over Illegal Worker’s Comp. Kickback Scheme
MA Court Case Resolves Carriers’ Dispute Over Common Insured Stemming From VRBO Guest Lawsuit Against Berkshire Homeowner
Mass. SJC Hears Inherent Diminished Value Recoveries For Third-Party Property Damage Claims Arguments
MA Court Affirms No Coverage For Attorney Who Failed To Disclose Customary User On Auto Application
Mass. Court Bars Suit Seeking Plymouth Rock To Pay Title, Registration, And Inspection Fees On Total Losses
InsurOp-Eds
InSurOp-Ed: Am I Legally Liable?
Preparing For The Next Pandemic – The Cyber One That Is
InSurOp-Ed: Beware Online COI Systems!
InSurOp-Ed: Using “Big Data” to Make Unilateral Policy Coverage Changes
InsurOp-Ed: Understanding The Insurance Supply Chain
Surround Insurance – Six Months In – In Massachusetts
InsurOp-Ed: Time to Make Government Action Exclusions More Equitable?
How Agents Can Ensure Home Improvement Projects Are Reflected Properly Within Their Clients’ Homeowners Policies
Interviews
Meet The New MAIA President & CEO: Nick Fyntrilakis Discusses The Transition And His Vision For The Association
The Paperless Agent – Michael Butts of Yankee Insurance Agency
Meet The Insurance Library Association of Boston’s New Executive Director Glenn Cryan
A Career Championing The Cause Of The Independent Insurance Agents Of The Commonwealth
The Personal Insurance Shoppers: How The A.P. Michaud Agency’s Personalized Approach Has Set Them Apart
In Real Time With Steve Aronson of Aronson Insurance
Clearsurance – Using Technology To Bring Transparency To Insurance
CNA’s Commercial Underwriting Officer Charlie O’Donnell Talks About Being Back in Boston and His Plans for New England
Insurtech Profiles
Corvus Welcomes New Investors With $15M Series C Financing Extension
Wunderite Secures $3 Million Seed Funding To Modernize Software for Insurance Agents
Next Insurance Raises Another $250 Million
“Smart Commercial” Insurtech Corvus Raises $100 Million
Hi Marley Nabs Another $25 Million in Series B Funding
Openly Secures $40M in Series B Funding Round to Accelerate Rapid Growth
Insurer News & Announcements
No Deal: Aon & Willis Towers Watson Mutually Agree To Terminate Merger Plans
The companies’ had announced their intent to merge back in March of 2020.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Seeks to Acquire Malaysian Insurer AmGeneral
Upon completion, the expected acquisition will make Liberty Mutual the largest auto insurer in Malaysia.
MAPFRE’s MotionSmart℠ Launches in Massachusetts
The insurer launched its first UBI product for policyholders here in its home state.
Liberty Mutual Acquiring State Auto Group
The deal will propel the Boston-based insurer into the second-largest IA Carrier in the country.
