A year has passed since a tornado roared down Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, battering buildings and toppling trees in the Nutmeg State’s largest city. Recovery has been steady in some areas and lagging in others. The initial shock has …
The parents of six deceased U.S. soldiers are suing Prudential Financial, saying it paid paltry interest on military life insurance benefits while keeping more generous interest earnings for itself. Five plaintiffs joined the original plaintiff Monday in the lawsuit, which …
A woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after learning she carried a gene implicated in breast cancer. Pamela Fink, 39, said in discrimination complaints that her bosses at natural …
For more than a decade, Connecticut lawmakers have considered and dismissed the idea of requiring seat belts on school buses that carry nearly 500,000 children each day. But a deadly weekend crash in Hartford has given the argument a human …
The Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the owners of a dump truck involved in a fiery crash in Avon in 2005 that killed four people and injured 11 others.In its decision, the high court overturned a …
The family of an elderly Connecticut woman who died after her chenille bathrobe caught on fire has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the retailer for wrongful death and product liability. Atwilda Brown, 80, was making her nightly cup of …
A Connecticut trucking company owner whose poorly maintained dump truck lost control and caused a fiery crash that killed four people in 2005 has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault charges. David Wilcox, 73, entered the pleas as jury selection …
The Connecticut Supreme Court has declined to rule on a Florida company’s efforts to block state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from disclosing information he obtained while investigating the insurance industry. The lawsuit by Brown & Brown Insurance Inc., which is …
The country’s leading trucking industry group says it will seek new ways to help truckers in Connecticut and nationwide remove ice and snow from atop their rigs without endangering themselves. The American Trucking Associations said in a letter to Gov. …
Requiring a worker to sign a liability waiver does not give blanket immunity to employers if that person is later hurt on the job, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The ruling said the waivers do not protect employers when …
