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Lax & Co. First Firm in RI to be Featured in...

Press Releases 05/02/2019

Lax & Co. is once again representing Rhode Island on the national stage in the life insurance industry. Firm President Ryan Alan Lax, along...

LISTEN AND LEARN: Participants during the first of two discussion panels at the 2019 PBN Spring Health Care Summit at the Providence Marriott talk about how the state’s health care and insurance systems must listen to and understand the whole person they purport to serve. From left: Marc Backon, president of Tufts Health Plan’s commercial division; Stephen Farrell, UnitedHealthcare of New England CEO; Dr. John Murphy, executive vice president of physician affairs at Lifespan; James E. Purcell, former CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and founder of the Returns on Wellbeing Institute; Shannon Shallcross, co-founder and CEO of BetaXAnalytics; and Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Panel: Many health, insurance services out of touch with user

Government 04/12/2019

To work better, the state’s health care and insurance systems must ramp up one critical skill: listening to and understanding the whole person they...

Lax & Co. President Newest Member of Forum 400

Press Releases 04/05/2019

Warwick, RI, April 2019 – Lax & Co. is pleased to announce that firm President Ryan Alan Lax has been selected for membership to...

E-SCOOTERS: A couple of Bird electronic scooters are photographed on a sidewalk in Providence. Bird is one of two companies operating the scooters in the capital city, which requires the scooter companies to cover the city with a general-liability insurance policy of at least $1 million in value.  / PBN PHOTO/CHRIS BERGENHEIM

Is city protected if scooters crash?

Business Services 04/05/2019

The electric scooters flitting around Providence are fast, efficient, fairly inexpensive and easy to use. But they’re an accident waiting to happen, and when...

COMPENSATION COSTS for private industry employers in New England were $40.80 per hour in December 2018 a 42-cent-per-hour increase year over year. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/LUKE SHARRETT

N.E. employer compensation costs highest in nation at end of 2018

Economic Activity 03/19/2019

PROVIDENCE – Compensation costs per hour worked for private employers in New England was $40.80 in December, compared with $40.38 one year prior, according...

HYBRID PRODUCT: Geraldine B. Cunningham, president and CEO of First Financial Advisory Services, with Matthew Cunningham, left, and Peter Robinson, at her Westerly office. Cunningham said her business has seen more interest in a hybrid long-term care insurance product that allows people to pay over a 10-year period while they are still working and includes a death benefit if the person dies before using the long-term care services.   / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Insurance policies target long-term care

Financial Services 12/21/2018

Baby boomers are planning for end of life, transforming a relatively new insurance option that combines long-term care and life insurance into a $4...

team culture: Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage CEO Larry Keefe speaks to sales staff during a morning meeting at the company’s East Providence office.   / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Starkweather & Shepley growing fast, looking out for clients’ best interests

Business Services 11/09/2018

Business Excellence Awards 2018 Excellence at a large company: Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. In January, Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. will celebrate...

Starkweather & Shepley focuses expansion on improving client service

Business Services 09/28/2018

Fastest Growing Companies | $25M-$75M | 4th place CEO (or equivalent): Lawrence E. Keefe 2017 Revenue: $55,000,00 2015 Revenue: $45,238,000 Revenue growth: 21.6% East Providence-based Starkweather & Shepley Insurance...