A Livermore Falls, Maine, woman prosecutors say offered $4,000 to burn down her convenience store so she could collect the insurance money has pleaded guilty. Erica Poland-Rolfe was sentenced Monday to serve 90 days of a two-year prison sentence after …
A jury has awarded a northern Maine woman $525,000 in her lawsuit against an insurance company that disputed her claims that she injured her back in a car accident. Berman and Simmons law firm says a Kennebec County Superior Court …
A West Paris building that burned down this week was once home to the last manufacturer of wooden clothes pins in the U.S. The Penley Mill was West Paris, Maine’s biggest employer from 1923 until it closed in 2002. The …
A Maine man sickened by a tainted ground beef sold at Hannaford stores is suing the supermarket chain. Kenneth Koehler, who filed his lawsuit Thursday, bought a 3-pound package of ground beef on Nov. 20, 2011, and suffered from “months …
Maine’s top insurance regulator says automobile and homeowners’ insurance rates in the state are among the lowest in the country. Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa said Friday that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has released two reports showing improvements in …
An arbitrator has ordered the city of Portland to pay more than $1,100 in back wages to two firefighters who were punished after damaging the city’s $3.2 million fireboat. The Maine city revealed the results of the arbitrator’s decision Tuesday. …
Maine has adopted a new, uniform standard for who can be classified as an “independent contractor” for workers’ compensation and other employment-related cases. The change went into effect on Dec. 31, 2012. State officials say the uniform definition will help …
The number of embezzlement is on the rise in Maine. Between 1987 and 2002, no more than 20 people were arrested for embezzlement each year. The Sun Journal of Lewiston reports that the numbers started going up in 2003, with …
The cost to fix a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was severely damaged by a fire at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, in Maine, will come in within $50 million of the original estimate. Kevin Kelley, spokesman for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, said …
Public safety officials say the number of highway deaths in Maine is up 50 percent over last year. The Bureau of Highway Safety says 97 people have died on Maine roads so far this year as of Friday. At the …