Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Connecticut Truck Safety Effort Yields 28,000 Citations
Dec 29 2010 // Connecticut public safety officials say nearly 28,000 violations were recorded during the first four months of a crackdown on unsafe trucking. The stepped-up enforcement started in August after several highway crashes...
Connecticut Says Tougher Teen Driving Rules Save Lives
Dec 10 2010 // State officials say Connecticut’s tough new restrictions on teenage drivers are saving lives. There were six fatal crashes involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers in 2009, the lowest in 12 years. Gov. M. Jodi Rell...
Connecticut Employee Fired Over Facebook Comments
Dec 5 2010 // Federal labor officials have taken aim at a Connecticut ambulance company they allege fired a union employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. The complaint issued by the...
Insurer Sues Apple Over Connecticut House Fire
Dec 2 2010 // Great Northern Insurance is suing electronics firm Apple, claiming that a faulty laptop charger for one of its computers triggered a massive house fire in Central Connecticut. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in...
Bruce Named Connecticut Underwriter of Year by NAIW Chapter
Nov 19 2010 // The Connecticut Chapter of the National Association of Insurance Women has named Cynthia Bruce, an underwriter at E&S broker S.H. Smith & Co., as its Connecticut professional underwriter of the year. Bruce...
Driver in Fatal Connecticut Crash Sues Victim’s Parents
Nov 16 2010 // A Connecticut driver who’s serving a manslaughter sentence for striking and killing a 14-year-old boy is suing the victim’s parents, blaming them for their son’s death because they allowed him to ride his...
Outgoing Governor Appoints Interim Connecticut Commissioner
Nov 15 2010 // Gov. M. Jodi Rell has appointed an acting insurance commissioner, days before the state’s insurance department is scheduled to hear a request for rate increases from one of Connecticut’s major health...
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Steps Down
Nov 14 2010 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan has resigned from his position as the Nutmeg State’s top insurance regulator. Sullivan, a former executive at The Hartford, was appointed as the state’s...
Connecticut Firm Must Defend Firing Employee Over Facebook Comments
Nov 12 2010 // Federal labor officials have taken aim at a Connecticut ambulance company they allege fired a union employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. The complaint issued by the...
Worker Killed by Concrete Slab Collapse in Connecticut
Nov 3 2010 // A town official in Greenwich, Connecticut says a man has died after a concrete slab collapsed on him, killing him instantly as he worked in a trench. Medics and police and fire officials responded at about 3 p.m. Monday to...
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Resigns
Nov 2 2010 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan has resigned from his position as the Nutmeg State’s top insurance regulator. Sullivan, a former executive at The Hartford, was appointed commissioner in 2007 by...
Connecticut Man Blames Fatal Crash on Dog
Nov 1 2010 // A 22-year-old Connecticut man accused of causing a car crash in April that took the life of a 70-year-old man is blaming the accident on his dog. Police say Brian Taplinger turned himself in last month and was later...
Injured Connecticut Gymnast Gets $625K
Oct 27 2010 // A former high school gymnast from Milford whose feet were severely injured when plywood boards fell on them as she set up a temporary floor for practice has settled with the school department for $625,000. Kaylee Ritchie...
Cincinnati Insurance Co. Enters Connecticut
Oct 21 2010 // The Cincinnati Insurance Co., the lead property/casualty subsidiary of Cincinnati Financial Corp., will begin writing business in Connecticut through Rose & Kiernan Inc., an independent insurance agency serving...
Connecticut Fines American Modern Home for Licensing Violations
Oct 20 2010 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan has fined American Modern Home Insurance Co., headquartered in Ohio, $170,000 for violations to state law. Connecticut state law requires individuals sellingl insurance...
Connecticut High School Ex-Sprinter Settles $325K Suit Against Town
Oct 18 2010 // A former student at East Lyme High School in Connecticut who needed emergency brain surgery after crashing into a cement wall during indoor track practice has settled a lawsuit against the town for $325,000. Nicholas...
Connecticut Man Blames Fatal Crash on Dog
Oct 14 2010 // A 22-year-old Connecticut man accused of causing a car crash in April that took the life of a 70-year-old man is blaming the accident on his dog. Police say Brian Taplinger turned himself in over the weekend and was...
Fire at Connecticut Country Club Causes Major Damage
Sep 29 2010 // Fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a blaze that raced through the main building at the Torrington Country Club and caused an estimated $500,000 in damage. Authorities say the four-alarm fire in Goshen...
Connecticut Officials Ask Obama for Tornado Damage Aid
Sep 23 2010 // Connecticut’s congressional delegation is asking President Obama to reconsider the denial of federal aid for tornado-related damage in Fairfield County. The delegation wrote to Obama on Tuesday saying the Federal...
Ryan Group Denies Any Wrongdoing by Former AmWINS Employee
Sep 7 2010 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS has won a court order against a former employee it believes is using confidential client information to target AmWINS business accounts and win them over to his new...
