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Liberty Mutual re-org affects 80 Mass. jobs

Liberty Mutual is eliminating 1,100 field customer service positions, including 80 in Massachusetts, in its sales offices around the country, and replacing them with 1,000 customer service jobs that will be centralized in six call centers, including one in Springfield, the Boston-based insurance company said yesterday.

Employees whose jobs are being eliminated will be able to apply for positions in the call centers — which will also be in Arizona, Indiana, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania — as well as positions elsewhere in the company, said Liberty Mutual Vice President John Cusolito. Workers who end up moving to a call center will be given relocation packages, Cusolito said. Other employees whose jobs are being eliminated will be given severance packages, he said.

Sixty-five of the new positions will be added to the Springfield call center this year, followed by more next year, he said.

North Andover woman gets six months for stealing from employer

A North Andover woman has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to stealing $1.7 million from her employer.

Attorney General Maura Healy said 44-year-old Dorothy Giard pleaded guilty to larceny and false bookkeeping charges yesterday in Superior Court in Salem.

Judge David Lowy imposed a six-month jail sentence followed by 10 years of probation and ordered her to pay $1.7 million in restitution.

Prosecutors say Giard stole the money while working as the officer manager for Diamond Ironworks in Lawrence, a steel fabrication company. Authorities say she spent the pilfered cash on international vacations, high-end cars, spa services and other luxury items.

Road funding bill heads to Senate

The Senate could pass a $200 million local road funding bill and deliver it to the governor by late next week, according to the chairman of a committee that reviewed the bill yesterday.

Senate Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Chairman John Keenan (D-Quincy) told reporters after a brief hearing that he expects it to come up Wednesday. Combined with a total of $130 million in local road and pothole funding released by Gov. Charlie Baker this year, the bill would bring the total aid for local roads to $330 million, according to Keenan.

"I think probably the winter highlighted how essential it is to get this money there, and also because Gov. Baker released the additional $100 million that was authorized last year — he released it in January — so municipalities are really looking to combine that with this authorization to get the work done that they have to get done," Keenan said.

The bill cleared the House unanimously Wednesday.

• Life Time Fitness announced health and fitness industry veteran Michael Diatelevi, left, as general manager of the company's first sports, professional fitness, family recreation and spa destination in the Boston area. Life Time Athletic Westwood at University Station is under construction with a planned opening in summer 2015.

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