An Ashburnham, Mass., man pleaded guilty Jan. 3 to fraudulently collecting about $28,000 on two unemployment benefit claims while working for a construction company.

Two insurance companies were ordered to pay restitution and change their marketing methods after “deceptively” selling discount health plans as health insurance to Massachusetts consumers in a $2.4 million civil judgement.

A New York, N.Y.-based health insurance company must pay $760,000 in restitution for selling unauthorized health insurance in Massachusetts.

The attorney general of Massachusetts, the state on which much of the federal health reform law is based, has filed a brief supporting the federal law.

A series of proposed new regulations in Massachusetts, calling for greater consumer protections in the auto insurance marketplace, are both ‘unnecessary and ill-advised,” according to an industry group.

Four more auto insurers have reached a settlement with Massachusetts’ attorney general to correct thousands of driving records as officials now turn their attention to the use of private databases for rating purposes.

If it wasn’t so serious, it would almost be laughable.

While voting today in the special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts that pits her against Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley …  Read →

In what is believed to be the largest consumer protection settlement against a health plan in Massachusetts history, a Texas-based insurer and two of its subsidiaries will pay $17 million …  Read →

Progressive Direct Insurance Co. has reached a settlement to pay $120,000 after allegations it provided Massachusetts auto insurance customers with inaccurate quotes on its rate comparison website.

Martha Coakley

Under the …  Read →

Great American Insurance Company has reached a $176,000 settlement with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley on allegations of bid-rigging.

The settlement resolves allegations that Great American submitted a fake and intentionally …  Read →