Latest Connecticut Headlines
All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Politics Makes Things Better?
Apr 5 2010 // A Connecticut State Senator thinks things have become too chummy between the state’s insurers and the commissioner of the state’s insurance department. To fix it, he says he would like to make the...
When Main Street Met Washington
Apr 5 2010 // Agents Make Grassroots Lobbying Campaign Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel and surveys the lobby...
When Main Street Met Washington
Apr 5 2010 // Agents Head to D.C. as Part of Grassroots Lobbying Campaign Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel in...
People
Apr 5 2010 // New Jersey-based Synergy Professional Associates has hired Thomas Dattoli as manager of its professional liability unit. Dattoli will be responsible for underwriting professional and excess liability for lawyers, and...
Bill Toughening Connecticut Drunk Boating Law Advances
Mar 31 2010 // A key legislative committee has advanced a bill that would make Connecticut’s drunken boating law conform with state drunken driving legislation. The Joint Judiciary Committee passed a bill Monday that eliminates the...
Connecticut Hospital Worker Killed in Hit-and-Run
Mar 29 2010 // Police are searching for the hit-and-run driver whose car struck and killed a Hartford Hospital employee. Police and hospital officials said the victim was crossing a street in front of a medical arts building on Saturday...
Connecticut Warns 11,000 of Potential Information Theft
Mar 24 2010 // Connecticut officials are notifying 11,000 residents who applied for state rebates after purchasing energy efficient furnaces that their personal information may have been stolen. Robert Genuario, secretary of the...
Rourke Named Connecticut Manager for Acadia
Mar 24 2010 // Maine-based insurer Acadia Insurance Co. has named Christopher Rourke as its new regional vice president-Connecticut branch manager. Rourke will help to develop and monitor the overall underwriting, marketing, loss control...
Connecticut AG Wants Crackdown on Worker Misclassification
Mar 18 2010 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is heralding recommendations of a state commission that would crackdown on companies that illegally misclassify employees as independent contractors, and dramatically raise...
Connecticut Underwriters Hires Valencia
Mar 11 2010 // E&S brokerage firm Connecticut Underwriters has named Darren Valencia as director of its professional lines business. Valencia has 10 years of experience underwriting and brokering professional liability coverage, and...
Distress Claim Denied for Connecticut Cop Who Shot Chimp
Mar 7 2010 // A Connecticut police officer who shot and killed a 200-pound chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied an insurance claim for post-traumatic stress disorder because state law only applies to police...
Connecticut Fines Zurich $235K
Mar 2 2010 // Connecticut insurance regulators have ordered insurer Zurich to pay $235,000 in fines for having unlicensed agents and adjusters, improperly rating commercial lines, and for lack of oversight for document...
Connecticut PIA Elects New Leadership
Mar 2 2010 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc has elected new officers. They are: President Howard Olderman, of Milford, who is president of The Olderman and Hallihan Agency Inc. in Ansonia. President-elect: James...
Suit Alleges Connecticut Plant Ignored Safety Procedures
Feb 25 2010 // Two workers injured in a power plant explosion filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that proper safety procedures were not followed, and an attorney said that included live electricity running through the site, workers welding...
Connecticut Jury Awards $1M to Victim of Alleged Rape
Feb 24 2010 // A Connecticut teenage girl who says she was raped in the back of a taxi in Naugatuck in 2007 has been awarded $1 million in a lawsuit against the alleged attacker and the cab company. A Waterbury Superior Court jury...
Connecticut Insurance Agent Faces Sentencing for Fraud
Feb 22 2010 // A Waterbury businessman faces sentencing for ripping off clients of more than $1.3 million, which he used to gamble at Connecticut’s casinos. Thomas Cipriano has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering. The...
Stress Claim Denied for Connecticut Cop Who Shot Chimpanzee
Feb 19 2010 // A Connecticut police officer who shot and killed a 200-pound chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied an insurance claim for post-traumatic stress disorder because state law only applies to police...
Certain Safety Codes Didn’t Apply to Connecticut Plant
Feb 16 2010 // Three days before the deadly explosion at a Connecticut natural gas power plant, a federal agency that investigates chemical accidents recommended urgent changes to national safety standards for clearing gas from...
Connecticut Insurance Department Recovered Nearly $3.2M Last Year
Feb 12 2010 // Connecticut insurance regulators recovered almost $3.2 million last year for consumers involved in formal disputes with their insurers over claims payments. There were 6,798 complaints and inquiries lodged last year. The...
Gas Cylinders Being Removed after Deadly Explosion in Connecticut
Feb 11 2010 // Crews were slowly and carefully removing gas cylinders from the site of a deadly explosion at an under-construction power plant in Connecticut, and investigators have interviewed survivors in an effort to determine the...
