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April 26, 2006

Carcieri offers to meet with Beacon board members

PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri has offered George Nee and Henry Boeniger "an opportunity to be heard" regarding their dismissal from the Beacon Mutual Insurance Co.'s board of directors.

According to a statement released this evening, the governor has responded to calls from the two long-time board members for impartial hearings to review their termination by Carcieri.

He's offered to meet with the men on Thursday, May 4, at 3 p.m. in his State House office.

Carcieri's executive counsel, Andrew Hodgkin, has written to Nee and Boeniger, saying that board members do not have a constitutionally protected guarantee of continued employment, or a right to the type of hearing that may be accorded a state employee.

Carcieri moved last week to fire Nee and Boeniger in the wake of allegations of mismanagement at the state's largest workers' compensation insurer.

The Beacon board is holding a regularly-scheduled meeting tonight, at which they planned to continue discussing the critical audit of the company, which spurred the removal of its CEO.

The meeting was continuing at 7 o'clock. Both Nee and Boeniger were attending.

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 7:17 PM | Permalink

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