Professional Services

The Hanover Insurance Group estimates second quarter catastrophe losses of $262 million following 19 major thunderstorms across multiple states.

ICS, a New York-based technology services and cybersecurity firm with a large office in Auburn, has rebranded its services under the names TechMD for its managed technology services division and 1nteger Security for its cybersecurity division.

People are on the move at Saint Vincent Hospital, Rockland Trust, and ERA Key Realty Services.

With affirmative action now barred in college admissions, workplace and education officials expect an immediate impact in the diversity at the start of the workforce talent pipeline and worry about a cooling effect on DEI efforts overall.

Marlborough-based Boston Scientific will close its manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, and lay off 54 workers beginning on Aug. 11, according to a California WARN report.

The nomination window for WBJ’s 15th Outstanding Women in Business awards closes on Aug. 5.

Worcester Business Journal has published its Book of Lists, the annual publication and directory full of the main movers and shakers in the Central Massachusetts business community.

The Telegram and Gazette, Worcester’s paper of record, will remain at 100 Front St. in a smaller office on the third floor in the high-rise building it has occupied since 2012. Its name, emblazoned atop the building, will be removed.

Connecticut-based insurance agency, Smith Brothers Insurance, acquired Rawson & Sons Insurance Group of Worcester.

The EcoTarium Museum of Science and Nature named attorney Joseph Bartulis, chair of the labor and employment law practice group at Worcester law firm Fletcher Tilton, as the Worcester museum’s new chair of the board of trustees.