Massachusetts insurance officials have updated estimates on insurance claims resulting from this month’s Western and Central Massachusetts tornadoes, with 8,200 claims totaling an estimated $140 million having been reported by insurance carriers. On June 7, the Massachusetts Division of Insurance …
Officials say two people were injured when a deck collapsed during a birthday party on Cape Cod. Capt. Richard Sargent of the Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire Department says one adult and one child suffered injuries that were believed to be non-life-threatening …
A former Boston police officer has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for faking injuries so he could claim disability payments. Eliezer Gonzalez was also sentenced Monday to two years of probation and ordered to pay more than …
Authorities say experts are preparing to go out to assess the severity of a severe weather system that has spawned at least two tornadoes that killed at least four people and caused heavy damage in 19 Massachusetts communities. The assessment …
The Massachusetts Senate passed measures designed to tighten escalator safety rules Thursday as it debated its $30.5 billion state spending plan for the next fiscal year. The Senate passed amendments toughening inspection requirements on escalators and elevators. The escalator amendment …
A Massachusetts jury has found that Phillip Morris Inc. was not responsible for the death of a longtime smoker whose family claimed the company’s cigarettes could have been made safer. The Worcester Superior Court jury returned its verdict Thursday after …
The Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Mass., has entered civil judgments against two brothers, former chiropractors, Alan and Marc Cohen, ordering them to pay $1,155,129 in damages to Encompass Insurance. Encompass is one of four insurers that filed a lawsuit …
An Andover lawyer, a North Andover chiropractor and one of his employees have been convicted of participating in a scheme to defraud auto insurers out of $130,000. A jury on Monday convicted attorney James Hyde and Dr. Michael Kaplan of …
Officials have begun termination proceedings against two suspended safety inspectors after a 4-year-old boy fell to his death from a store escalator at a mall in central Massachusetts. The Department of Public Safety will also suspend six other inspectors for …
A judge has approved a $7 million settlement for a Shrewsbury family who claimed medical negligence in the birth of their daughter. The lawsuit filed in 2008 lawsuit against two doctors, a nurse practitioner and a genetic counselor alleged that …