Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Professional Insurance Women’s Group Announces Award in Connecticut
Dec 6 2011 // Kimberly Latka, a claims specialist at S.H. Smith & Company Inc. in Hartford, Conn., was recently honored with the Statewide Claim Professional of the Year Award from the National Association of Insurance Women of...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Hires Executive VP for N.Y., Conn. Region
Dec 6 2011 // Marsh & McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc. appointed John Sames as regional executive vice president of its New York City and Milford, Conn., offices. In this new role, Sames will be...
Connecticut Probes Fraud in Post-Irene Food Aid Program
Dec 6 2011 // Scores of Connecticut residents, including some state workers, might have requested and received federal emergency money to replace spoiled food and cover other expenses after Hurricane Irene even though their incomes...
William Gallagher to Pay $1.7M to Settle With Conn. Regulators
Nov 21 2011 // Insurance broker William Gallagher Associates Inc. will pay $1.7 million as a settlement with Connecticut regulators over allegations that it overcharged a client. The settlement was announced late last month. State...
Connecticut Utility CEO Out Amid Post-Storm Criticism
Nov 19 2011 // The president and chief operating officer of Connecticut Light & Power has resigned as the company continues to come under fire for its handling of power outages after last month’s snowstorm. Northeast Utilities...
Connecticut Had 58,002 Claims for Irene, With $161M Paid Out So Far
Nov 16 2011 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi told a legislative committee that Connecticut saw 58,002 claims for Hurricane Irene. Of those claims, 84.8 percent have been closed (88 percent for homeowners’...
Agencies Saw Business Interruption Claims After October Nor’easter
Nov 15 2011 // Local agencies in the Northeastern region say they saw cases of business interruption claims following the unusual, freak snowstorm that swept through the area last month. Many claims came from local restaurants and diners...
Connecticut Governor Requests Major Disaster Declaration
Nov 14 2011 // Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is asking President Barack Obama to issue a major disaster declaration for Connecticut following last month’s freak October snow storm that left hundreds of thousands without power for...
Connecticut Hearing to Look at Insurers’ Storm Response
Nov 14 2011 // State lawmakers want to learn more about how the insurance industry responded to the two recent storms to hit Connecticut — the remnants of Hurricane Irene and the October nor’easter. The legislature’s...
Some in Connecticut Still Without Power
Nov 7 2011 // Some of the thousands of Connecticut residents still in the dark Monday may not have power restored until mid-week, more than 10 days after a monster snowstorm knocked out electricity to millions of people in the...
State Farm and Sen. Blumenthal Debate Hurricane Deductible
Nov 7 2011 // U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) recently called on State Farm to drop its hurricane deductible for Connecticut residences whose homes were damaged by Tropical Storm Irene. But State Farm shows no sign of giving in...
3M Powerless as October Snow Surprises Northeast
Oct 31 2011 // A freak October snowstorm knocked out power Sunday to more than 3.1 million homes and businesses across the U.S. Northeast, with close to two feet (60 centimeters) of snow falling in some areas over the weekend. The storm...
William Gallagher Settles With Regulators, Will Pay $1.7M
Oct 31 2011 // Insurance broker William Gallagher Associates Inc. will pay $1.7 million as a settlement with Connecticut regulators over allegations that it overcharged a client. The state regulators accused the Massachusetts-based...
Federal Aid for Irene Tops $5M for Conn.
Oct 17 2011 // More than $5,089,356.61 in federal assistance to date has been approved to help Connecticut residents cope with their Tropical Storm Irene-related disaster expenses that are not covered by insurance. The federal assistance...
State Farm: Its Conn. Deductible Decision Grounded in Fairness
Oct 14 2011 // State Farm Insurance says U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal’s request that the company drop Irene-related hurricane deductibles in Connecticut would actually be unfair to policyholders and introduce all sorts of...
Connecticut Regulators to Revise Hurricane Deductible Rules
Oct 14 2011 // Connecticut insurance regulators are working on revising hurricane deductible rules in the wake of tropical storm Irene. The insurance department spokesperson told Insurance Journal that the new rules under consideration...
Sen. Blumenthal Asks State Farm to Drop Hurricane Deductible for Irene
Oct 13 2011 // U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called on State Farm Insurance to drop its hurricane deductible for Connecticut residences whose homes were damaged by Tropical Storm Irene. Blumenthal was joined at his Hartford...
Federal Assistance for Hurricane Irene Tops $5M for Conn. Residents
Oct 6 2011 // More than $5,089,356.61 in federal assistance to date has been approved to help Connecticut residents cope with their Tropical Storm Irene-related disaster expenses that are not covered by insurance. The federal assistance...
Safety Group Says Conn. Blast Shows Need for ‘Gas Blow’ Rule
Sep 29 2011 // A national safety group is urging states and regulators to adopt new standards that would ban a pipe-cleaning practice blamed for a 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion that killed six workers. The National Fire...
Irene Raises Hurricane Deductible Questions in Northeast States
Sep 19 2011 // New York and New Jersey regulators said recently that hurricane deductibles should not apply on homeowners’ insurance policies for Irene damages in their states. That’s because Irene was downgraded and...
