Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Connecticut Worker Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud, Larceny
Aug 6 2019 // A Connecticut Department of Developmental Services (DDS) employee was has been arrested and charged with fraudulently collecting more than $4,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. Elizabeth Torres, age 58, of...
Gun Maker Appeals to Supreme Court Over Liability for Sandy Hook
Aug 2 2019 // The maker of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a court ruling that allowed families of the victims to sue the...
Relief Arrives for Connecticut Homeowners with Crumbling Foundations
Aug 2 2019 // After worrying for years about the foundations crumbling beneath their houses, hundreds of suburban homeowners in a large swath of central Connecticut are getting help to salvage property that had been doomed by a bad...
New Connecticut Task Force to Begin Study of PFAS Chemicals
Jul 29 2019 // A new interagency task force will soon begin work on a plan to minimize the impact of a group of potentially dangerous industrial compounds known as “forever chemicals” on Connecticut residents. The group of...
Risk Strategies Acquires Connecticut’s Gerard B. Tracy Associates
Jul 26 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has added to its employee benefits practice with the acquisition of Gerard B. Tracy Associates Inc. Based in Fairfield, Conn.,...
Connecticut Consumers Urged to Review Policies Ahead of Storm Season
Jul 23 2019 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais is urging homeowners to review their insurance policies before the upcoming tropical storm season. Peak hurricane season in Connecticut begins in mid-August and runs...
Connecticut’s Saxe Doernberger & Vita Hires Baptiste-Perez to Northeast Office
Jul 15 2019 // Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C. (SDV) has hired associate Christine Baptiste-Perez to its SDV Northeast office. Before attending law school, Baptiste-Perez taught high school Spanish in Louisiana and worked in human...
Sandy Hook Parents Lose Appeal Against Newtown Over School Shooting
Jul 15 2019 // A Connecticut state appeals court has rejected an appeal by the parents of two shooting victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre to hold the town of Newtown and its school district liable. While calling the case...
Connecticut’s Halpert Insurance & Financial Services Joins SAN Group
Jul 11 2019 // Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, has announced that Halpert Insurance & Financial Services of Windsor Locks, Conn., joined the network. Agency...
Vote Expected on Federal Funds to Test Connecticut Crumbling Foundations
Jun 25 2019 // Federal legislation that sets aside $4 million in federal funds to study the effects of the mineral pyrrhotite on concrete aggregate has advanced in the U.S. Congress. Democratic U.S. Joe Courtney, whose eastern...
Sandy Hook Shooting Victims’ Parents Win Defamation Suit Against Conspiracy Authors
Jun 19 2019 // The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the latest victory for victims’ relatives...
IBHS Chief Wright Urges Congress to Consider Tax Credits for Climate Resilience
May 30 2019 // Roy E. Wright, CEO and president of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, wants Congress to consider financing resilience. The IBHS chief testified during a recent appearance before the House Ways and...
New Loan Program Could Help Connecticut Homeowners with Foundation Woes
May 30 2019 // Connecticut lawmakers are working to provide additional assistance to homeowners impacted by the crumbling foundations problem. The House of Representatives last week advanced a bill to the Senate, by a vote of 131-7,...
First Connecticut Crumbling Foundation Repaired with State’s Help
May 17 2019 // Work has been completed on the first Connecticut home with a crumbling foundation, using funds from a captive insurance company created by the General Assembly in 2017. It took about six weeks to replace Kevin and Aisling...
Fire Chief Says Connecticut Mosque Fire Appears to Be Arson
May 15 2019 // A weekend fire at a Connecticut mosque is being investigated as arson. New Haven Fire Chief John Alston said Monday investigators found evidence showing the fire at the Diyanet Mosque was intentionally set and a criminal...
Insurance Commissioner Confers with Connecticut Congressional Delegation
May 14 2019 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais joined more than 40 of his colleagues from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) last week to highlight important issues for members of U.S....
New Hampshire Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Slain Millionaire’s Residency
May 14 2019 // A judge in New Hampshire dismissed a lawsuit Friday against a man relatives say killed his millionaire grandfather for inheritance money, saying the slain grandfather was not a resident of the state. Judge David King said...
Lawsuit Alleges Connecticut School Failed to Protect Student from Assault
May 3 2019 // A Connecticut school district has been sued by the parents of a 5-year-old boy who say their son was stabbed with a pencil by another student and later sexually assaulted by that same student. The Stamford Advocate reports...
Connecticut Crumbling Foundations Entity Halts Approval of New Work
May 1 2019 // The entity overseeing distribution of state funds to help Connecticut homeowners with crumbling foundations has ceased authorizing new foundation construction work until it receives a payment from the state Department of...
Nursing Home in Connecticut Sued Over Strangling of 76-Year-Old Patient
May 1 2019 // A Connecticut nursing home is being sued over the strangling death of a 76-year-old patient who police say was killed by her 81-year-old boyfriend in November. The Connecticut Law Tribune reports the lawsuit filed Monday...
