Professional Services

If there’s a healthcare equivalent of the tech startup cliche of starting a business out of someone’s garage, that’s about exactly what Dr. Sean Lordan did.

Central Massachusetts professionals are taking new jobs and getting promoted at companies like Estate Preservation Law Offices, Avidia Bank, AdCare Hospital and Banjo Health.

A former editor of the Worcester Business Journal, Lawrence Maloney, has published a new fiction book, “Unto the Altar of God”.

The board of directors for the Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. of Worcester has increased the company’s current share repurchase authorization by $400 million to $1.3 billion.

Employees in public-facing jobs or working outside their homes who contract COVID-19 would be presumed to have caught the virus at work and eligible for workers compensation benefits under legislation aired at a public hearing Tuesday and knocked for its likely negative impact on insurance rates.

Power dynamics in the Central Massachusetts business community made two major shifts in 2021, due to the two major events upending the entire global community.

Eastern Insurance Group LLC of Natick announced on Monday it has acquired the operating assets of Barr Insurance Agency, Inc., which is headquartered in Watertown.

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. of Worcester reported $92.7 million in profits during the company’s first quarter, according to an earnings report released Friday.

Since 2006, Welberson Nunes, along with his family, has been building his Universal Insurance Agency and now is poised for faster growth as he cultivates clients throughout Worcester and Middlesex counties to understand the fundamentals of insurance. 

Primerica, Inc., a Georgia-based financial-services company with several outposts in Central Mass., including Oxford and Millbury, plans to acquire 80% of Florida firm e-TeleQuote Limited, a senior health insurance distributor of Medicare-related insurance policies for $600 million.