Latest Connecticut Headlines
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JPMorgan Botched Mailing of Replacement Cards in Conn. After Cyber Attack
Dec 24 2013 // JPMorgan Chase & Co. mailed incorrect replacements for payment cards to about 4,000 people for the state of Connecticut after personal data stored at the bank was accessed in a cyber attack this summer. The bank made...
Business Risk Partners Hires 3 Underwriters in Connecticut
Dec 22 2013 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general agency focused on specialty commercial insurance, recently added three new underwriters. Elizabeth Chapin Martinelli was hired as a miscellaneous professional...
JLT Towner Acquires Charter Risk Management Services in Connecticut
Dec 3 2013 // JLT Towner Insurance Management (USA), LLC, announced its acquisition of Charter Risk Management Services, LLC, a Connecticut captive management company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Under the transaction,...
New York Metro-North Derailment Puts Spotlight on Rail Safety
Dec 2 2013 // A deadly derailment on a curve in Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line rekindled safety concerns and promised to snarl today’s commute for thousands of riders on one of New York’s major mass-transit...
Connecticut Health Department Offers Holiday Food Safety Tips
Nov 27 2013 // The Connecticut Department of Public Health is reminding people to be careful preparing food for the holidays so they don’t get sick. Tracey Weeks is coordinator of the department’s food protection program. She...
Connecticut to Forgo Obama’s Plan for Canceled Health Insurance Policies
Nov 25 2013 // The state of Connecticut will not abide by President Barack Obama’s request that states allow insurance companies to continue offering health plans that don’t meet minimum coverage levels to people who have...
In Connecticut, Number of Insurance Sector Employees Fell Slightly in 2012: Report
Nov 21 2013 // A report this month from Connecticut’s Insurance & Financial Services (IFS) Cluster and PwC shows there was a slight decline in the number of insurance sector employees in Connecticut last year, primarily due to...
Connecticut Opens 2 Additional Sandy Relief Centers for Disaster Assistance
Nov 21 2013 // The state of Connecticut is opening two additional intake centers to help homeowners seeking disaster assistance for losses caused by last year’s Superstorm Sandy. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday...
Connecticut Regulator Revokes License of Broker Mired in Insurance Controversy
Nov 19 2013 // Connecticut’s insurance department last week revoked the insurance licenses of Earl O’Garro Jr. and his insurance brokerage firm, Hybrid Insurance Group. O’Garro has been mired in an ongoing insurance...
State Proposals to Mandate Insurance for Gun Owners Falter
Nov 19 2013 // Plans to mandate liability coverage for U.S. gun owners after last year’s school shooting in Connecticut have languished as opponents attack the proposals by comparing them to President Barack Obama’s health...
Arbella Expands Carpartment Insurance to Connecticut
Nov 13 2013 // The Arbella Insurance Group has expanded Carpartment insurance to Connecticut, via Bearingstar Insurance agents. Designed to help make renter’s insurance policies simpler and more affordable, Carpartment offers...
Conn. Gov.: Low-Interest Loans Available for Elevating Homes, Flood-Proofing Businesses
Nov 6 2013 // Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy recently announced the creation of the Connecticut Shoreline Resiliency Fund, a low-interest loan program for state residents who are subject to coastal flooding and would like to...
Connecticut’s Interest in Berms, Dunes Grows After Sandy
Nov 4 2013 // Devastating flooding from Superstorm Sandy has sparked growing interest in building berms and sand dunes for protection along the Connecticut coast, a swath of land with some of the nation’s priciest real estate...
Connecticut Approves NCCI’s 3.2% WC Loss-Cost Increase Filing
Oct 31 2013 // Connecticut regulators this week approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s workers’ compensation filing for an overall +3.2 percent change for voluntary market advisory pure premium loss costs...
Hundreds Still Displaced by Sandy Damage in Connecticut
Oct 30 2013 // A year after Superstorm Sandy drove Deborah Dinan from her Milford, Connecticut, home, she lives above a loud bar and is often reduced to tears as she struggles to return. Dinan, a 59-year-old nurse on disability due to...
Sandy Left-Behinds Brace for Second Year With Relief Elusive
Oct 25 2013 // For more than a half-century, Whitey’s Landing on New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay has served boaters pulling up for engine repairs or clams from the bait freezer. This season, only one-third of its 30 moorings were...
Connecticut to Help East Haven Residents Apply for Sandy Recovery Funds
Oct 23 2013 // The state of Connecticut will open an office in East Haven to help residents apply for money from a Superstorm Sandy disaster recovery fund. The office is scheduled to open on Thursday and residents can begin scheduling...
Conn. Gov., Local Officials Celebrate Opening of Navigators’ New Headquarters
Oct 17 2013 // Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday joined executives from The Navigators Group Inc. and state and local officials to celebrate the opening of the insurer’s new headquarters at 400 Atlantic Street in...
Connecticut Announces Its 3rd Licensed Captive Insurance Company
Oct 16 2013 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced last week that the corporate owner of one of the largest grocery store chains in New York City is setting up its captive insurance subsidiary in Connecticut. The Red Apple Group,...
Connecticut Police Use New Law to Target Distracted Driving
Oct 11 2013 // Connecticut Police are cracking down on motorists who text or use a hand-held cellphone while driving. Authorities call it “high-visibility enforcement” intended to call attention to a state law that took...
