Latest Connecticut Headlines
All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tri-State Governors Call on Feds to Help Ex-Financial Services Workers
Nov 19 2008 // The governors of three Northeast States hard hit by the Wall Street meltdown are urging federal officials to approve a $48.2 million grant to help retrain financial services workers who have lost their jobs. In a letter to...
Motorcycle-Related Deaths in Connecticut Lower than 1980s
Nov 11 2008 // Connecticut transportation officials say even with thousands of new motorcyclists in Connecticut, the death rate involving motorcycles has gone down in the past two decades. As of Nov. 1, state figures show that 54 people...
Peterson Joins Gowrie Group of Cos. in Connecticut
Nov 4 2008 // Westbrook, Connecticut-based The Gowrie Group of Cos. has named Whitney Peterson vice president of marketing. Peterson will direct marketing activities for all of the Gowrie Group. Her initial efforts will focus on active...
Connecticut Family Sues Party Hosts in Drunken Driving Death
Oct 30 2008 // The family of a 19-year-old who died in a drunken driving accident is suing the hosts of a Madison party where the driver had been given alcohol. The family of Kirsten Meyer, killed in a drunken driving crash after a 2007...
Connecticut Insurance Broker to Fill GOP Slot as Honorary Candidate
Oct 30 2008 // A Bristol, Connecticut insurance broker says he’s filling in as the Republican candidate in the 76th Assembly District race to honor the original candidate who apparently took his own life last week. David L. Norton...
Insurance Affordability: Three East Coast Regulators Weigh In
Oct 28 2008 // For many East Coast homeowners, the difficulty lies not in finding insurance, but paying for it. And that so-called affordability problem affects nearly every state along the coastline. Given their recent history with...
Connecticut Insurance Department Recovers $1.4 Million from Complaints
Oct 28 2008 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan reports that his agency has recovered more than $1.4 million in the third quarter from settling consumer complaints. It is the highest recovery total for the department...
Connecticut Blonde Sues over Brown Dye; Judge Brushes Off Suit
Oct 9 2008 // A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman’s lawsuit claiming L’Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products. Charlotte Feeney says...
Connecticut Docs Unhappy
Oct 6 2008 // A new survey shows that nearly one in three doctors in Connecticut are not happy practicing in the state and are considering changing jobs or moving. Of course, insurance costs just happen to be one of the reasons, along...
Study: Connecticut Doctors Not Happy
Sep 25 2008 // A new survey shows that nearly one in three doctors in Connecticut are not happy practicing in the state and are considering changing jobs or moving. The University of Connecticut Heath Center’s Institute for Public...
Conn. Agency Data Case Continues
Sep 22 2008 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has declined to rule on a Florida agency’s efforts to block state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from disclosing information he obtained while investigating the insurance...
Hanna Causes Only Minor Problems in Connecticut
Sep 8 2008 // Connecticut is cleaning up after Tropical Storm Hanna blew quickly through the state. Less than 9,000 customers of Connecticut Light and Power were without power Sunday morning. United Illuminating says only a few dozen...
Conn. Case over Disclosure of Insurance Agency Data to Continue
Sep 4 2008 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has declined to rule on a Florida company’s efforts to block state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from disclosing information he obtained while investigating the insurance...
Man Pinned under Cargo Elevator in Connecticut
Sep 3 2008 // Officials in Milford, Connecticut say a 29-year-old man has been hospitalized for traumatic injuries after he was pinned under a 1,000-pound freight elevator. Firefighters were called to the Optical Polymers International...
Conn. High Court: Smoking Lowers Workers’ Comp Benefits
Sep 1 2008 // Smoking kills. And in Connecticut, it also changes the apportionment of workers’ compensation benefits, the state’s top court has ruled. Last month, Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled in an asbestos case...
Connecticut Says Use of Fake Auto Insurance Cards Growing
Aug 29 2008 // Counterfeit auto insurance cards have been a problem for years, say Connecticut insurance officials, but recently, the department’s fraud and investigations’ divisions have been seeing seen a lot more of the...
Lockton Connecticut Names Rodriquez Vice President
Aug 22 2008 // Lockton Connecticut has named Orlando Rodriquez vice president and unit manager for its Farmington-based commercial insurance team. Rodriguez brings to Lockton 14 years of experience providing risk management solutions to...
Connecticut Insurance Dept Recovers $630K for Policyholders
Aug 13 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Dept said it has recovered $630,000 on behalf of policyholders from complaints resolved in the second quarter of this year. Department staff received 1,372 new complaints and inquiries in the...
Ratings Recap: Hanover, Assurant, Wadena/IMT, Berkshire Hathaway, Finial
Aug 1 2008 // A.M. Best Co. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services have both reacted positively to The Hanover Insurance Group’s (THG) announcement that has reached agreement to sell its remaining run-off life insurance...
Connecticut Fines CNA Insurance Group $96K
Jul 30 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has fined subsidiaries of CNA Insurance Group a total of $96,000 for violations of state law. The fines were assessed to CNA’s subsidiaries for alleged violations of laws...
