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Connecticut Offering $280M to Nursing Homes to Avoid Strikes
May 13 2021 // Connecticut officials on Monday proposed an additional $280 million in funding for nursing homes in an effort to avoid strikes by nearly 4,000 health workers that are set to begin Friday if negotiations fail. Democratic...
Connecticut Utilities Face Steep Fines for Storm Failures
May 11 2021 // Connecticut regulators on Thursday proposed a $30 million fine for Eversource and a $2.1 million fine for United Illuminating for what officials called the utilities’ failures in their preparation and response to...
Connecticut Officials Mull Utility Fines Over Storm Response
May 5 2021 // Connecticut regulators have criticized the state’s two largest electricity distributors and said they are considering fines over what they called the companies’ failures in their preparation and response last...
Treatment Facility Resident Charged with Arson in Connecticut Fire
Apr 29 2021 // A 27-year-old Connecticut man has been arrested on charges of setting fire to a building that housed a mental health treatment facility where he lived, police said. Firefighters and police officers were dispatched to a...
Connecticut Reminds Insurers to Avoid Discriminatory Practices with Big Data
Apr 16 2021 // Connecticut Insurance Department (CID) Commissioner Andrew N. Mais issued a formal notice to insurers licensed by the department that their use of technology and big data must be in full compliance with federal and state...
Connecticut Urges Homeowners to Test Wells for Arsenic, Uranium
Apr 9 2021 // Connecticut health officials are urging homeowners who rely on well water to have their systems checked for arsenic and uranium contamination. The advice comes as the result of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey...
The Hilb Group Acquires Connecticut’s Andrews Benefits
Apr 6 2021 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Connecticut-based Andrews Benefits LLC (AB). The transaction became effective on February 15, 2021. AB is an employee benefits agency providing strategies and long-term solutions for...
Report Fuels More Debate on Connecticut Utility’s Storm Response
Mar 24 2021 // A draft report critical of a utility’s response to Tropical Storm Isaias has Connecticut lawmakers again calling for accountability. The report released late Friday by the state’s Public Utility Regulatory...
Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Elects Rabbett as President
Mar 8 2021 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut (PIACT) elected Shannon Rabbett, of Windsor, Connecticut, as president at the association’s annual business meeting, held virtually on March 4, 2021. She will serve as...
Suspect Arrested in June 21 Fatal Shooting in Connecticut Hotel
Feb 24 2021 // A suspect has been arrested in a fatal shooting last June in a Meriden hotel, police said. Trevor Outlaw, 33, was arrested Friday in the June 21, 2020 death of Giovanni Rodriguez at the Comfort Inn on East Main Street, the...
Lawsuit Over 2017 Connecticut Training Flight Crash Is Settled
Jan 29 2021 // The sister of a student pilot who died in a small plane crash in Connecticut in 2017 has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the flight school she accused of failing to maintain the aircraft. Terms of the settlement...
Cross Insurance Partners with Connecticut’s Daigle & Travers Insurance
Jan 19 2021 // Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., based in Bangor, Maine, and an independent insurance provider in New England, has partnered with Daigle & Travers Insurance of Fairfield County, Conn. The Daigle...
Connecticut’s Signal Administration Appoints Kirk as Chief Financial Officer
Jan 8 2021 // Signal Administration, a Wilton, Conn.-based provider of Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act benefits, has appointed Carole V. Kirk to the position of chief financial officer. Kirk, an experienced finance...
Hanleigh Hires Cremens as Sales Director in Connecticut Office
Dec 21 2020 // Hanleigh, a subsidiary of CRC Group – a nationwide wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products – has hired Scott Cremens as sales director, based in its Windsor, Conn., office. Hanleigh is a managing...
World Insurance Associates Acquires Connecticut’s The Watts Group
Dec 9 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired The Watts Group LLC of West Hartford, Conn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2003 by Mike Watts, The Watts Group is a surety bond and property &...
Hub Acquires Assets of Connecticut’s Chelsea Insurance Agency
Dec 8 2020 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Chelsea Insurance Agency LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Norwich, Conn., Chelsea Insurance Agency is a...
Capco Acquires Connecticut-Based Insurance Consultancy Firm NEOS
Dec 3 2020 // Capco, a global management and technology consultancy, has acquired NEOS LLC, a Hartford, Conn.-based consultancy focused on helping insurance organizations drive transformational change. The transaction will complement...
World Insurance Associates Acquires Connecticut’s Flanagan Associates
Dec 1 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Flanagan Associates LLC of North Haven, Conn., on November 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established more than 30 years ago, Flanagan Associates has...
Trials Delayed, Cases Pile Up as Too Few Jurors Show Up Amid Coronavirus
Nov 30 2020 // Jury duty notices have set Nicholas Philbrook’s home on edge with worries about him contracting the coronavirus and passing it on to his father-in-law, a cancer survivor with diabetes in his mid-70s who is at higher...
Connecticut Town Officials Charged in Probe of Hazardous Waste Dumping
Nov 23 2020 // Five former or current officials of Fairfield, Connecticut, are among several people who have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping of hazardous materials next to the town’s public works garage and...
