Archive for February 2021

The firm’s net income came in at $758 million in 2020, down by more than a quarter from a year earlier. Still, Liberty Mutual fared much better operating during the pandemic’s first year than it has in years marred by major storms — in 2017, for instance, an historic hurricane season caused its net income…

Bedford robotics company Berkshire Grey and Watertown 3D-printing company Markforged Inc. are both planning a reverse merger with two different blank-check companies: Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: RAAC) and one (NYSE: AONE), respectively. The companies made two separate announcements on Wednesday. Read More

The company has raised a combined $285 million over two funding rounds. Read More

The health care overhaul signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on Jan. 1, while important, do little for businesses that remain over-burdened with health care costs, and leave untouched an existing structure that had led to coverage inequalities and health disparities. Read More

Massachusetts hospitals will resume vaccinating high-risk groups and a new wave of state residents, after state officials agreed to once again provide first doses to health systems. Read More

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The vote brings more than 500 more nurses into one of the state’s largest unions. Read More

Union nurses at the Worcester hospital have scheduled what would be an 800-nurse walk-out at a Massachusetts hospital for the first time since the pandemic began. Read More

A two-year-old biotech, flush with $100 million in venture capital, is researching whether RNA shaped in a circle, rather than in a line, can be more effective as a pharmaceutical treatment. Read More

State transportation officials on Wednesday will call for bids to redevelop public land on Kneeland Street two blocks from South Station, one of the few last large undeveloped parcels remaining in downtown Boston. The undeveloped state-owned site at Kneeland, Lincoln and Albany streets near South Station "stands as a blank canvas of urban development potential,”…