In 2013, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island will introduce a new health-insurance product, a shared-savings, limited-network plan, in collaboration with one or more of the state’s seven hospital systems, Blue Cross President and CEO Peter Andruszkiewicz told Providence Business News. more

Allstate Insurance Co. is planning an all-out blitz in Rhode Island for new agents. more

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Age: 38 more

In honor of its 100th anniversary celebration, Liberty Mutual Insurance has donated $10,000 to Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island. more

Disappointed by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s veto of legislation to give them the right to sue insurance companies in payment disputes, auto-body shops say they’ll continue the fight next year. more

Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., the state’s largest independent insurance agency, announced today that it has acquired Insurance Professionals of New England, a Massachusetts-based agency. more

Since many boats have automotive-type engines in them, it would seem to make sense to have them repaired at a garage that services, well … automotive engines. Such was the case with the owner of an inboard-outboard boat who wasn’t happy with the engine work being done by his boat dealer and who chose instead to have his boat tuned up by his local auto-service station. After all, they had done great work on his cars, so why not? more

Like many professionals, Robert C. Atwood enjoyed his work but had the desire to have his own business. “The company I was working for at the time wasn’t interested in pursuing the hazardous-waste world, so I started on my own,” he said. more

PROVIDENCE – A Providence County Superior Court jury returned a verdict of more than $3.27 million against two of the nation’s largest automobile-insurance providers last month, ruling that they had acted with “malice” and “bad faith.” more