Latest Connecticut Headlines
All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Connecticut Agents’ Group Elects New Officers
Mar 18 2008 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut elected officers yesterday during the group’s annual convention. The group’s new officers are • President Michael F. Keating of West Hartford, president of...
Some in Connecticut Shook by Small Earthquake
Mar 13 2008 // Scientists say it was a small earthquake that shook houses in Chester, Connecticut and surrounding towns earlier this week. The U.S. Geological Survey says it recorded a 2.0 magnitude earthquake early Tuesday morning three...
Connecticut Lawmakers Want Overhaul of Bail Bondsmen System
Mar 12 2008 // Connecticut lawmakers say it’s time to reform Connecticut’s bail bondsmen system. Legislators held a hearing today on a bill that would subject bondsmen to testing and routine training, and allow the public...
GPS Tells Connecticut City to Sack 4 Fire Inspectors
Mar 11 2008 // A lengthy investigation has led Bridgeport, Connecticut officials to fire four city fire department inspectors. Officials say the fire inspectors lost their jobs after the investigation allegedly found that they spent...
Connecticut DMV Employee Says Agency Fails Driver-Training Standards
Mar 11 2008 // An agent for Connecticut’s Department of Motor Vehicles has accused the agency of failing to consistently enforce its own standards in driver training and retraining. Commissioner Robert M. Ward disputes the...
Truckers to Review Snow-Removal Ideas in Wake of Connecticut Concerns
Mar 11 2008 // The country’s leading trucking industry group says it will seek new ways to help truckers in Connecticut and nationwide remove ice and snow from atop their rigs without endangering themselves. The American Trucking...
Ratings Recap: CIFG, Tall Pines, Conn. Medical, Nationwide, Wolverine
Mar 11 2008 // Fitch Ratings has downgraded CIFG to ‘AA-‘ from ‘AAA’ and kept the ratings on Rating Watch Negative. The downgrade affects the Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) ratings for CIFG Guaranty and...
Five Execs Found Guilty of Fraud in Gen Re-AIG Trial
Mar 10 2008 // A federal court jury in Hartford, Connecticut, has found four former General Re Corp. executives and one former American International Group executive guilty of corporate fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from...
Connecticut Lawmakers Weigh Stricter Teen-Driving Laws
Mar 7 2008 // Connecticut lawmakers are hoping a bill aimed at tightening teen driving laws will clear its first legislative hurdle today. That’s when a vote in the Transportation Committee is scheduled. The bill – a...
Connecticut River Communities Warned About Potential Spring Floods
Mar 5 2008 // Communities along the Connecticut River are being told to prepare for the possibility of flooding over the next few weeks. The heavy snowfall in northern New England this winter, combined with one of the wettest months of...
Fraud Trial Starts for Owner of Truck in Fiery Conn. Crash
Mar 4 2008 // A former business owner whose truck was involved in a fatal chain-reaction crash at the base of Avon Mountain in Connecticut in 2005 went on trial yesterday. David Wilcox, 72, owned a dump truck that lost control and...
Conn. Woman Pleads No Contest to Attempted Insurance Fraud
Mar 3 2008 // The wife of a former truck owner whose truck was involved in a fatal crash on Connecticut’s Avon Mountain nearly three years ago has pleaded no contest to attempted insurance fraud. Donna Wilcox faced a trial that...
Court: Conn. Widow Can’t Pursue Claim Husband Was Worked To Death
Feb 27 2008 // The widow of a Connecticut Superior Court judge cannot pursue a lawsuit claiming the state worked her husband to death, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled. The high court struck down a special act of the legislature,...
5 Execs Found Guilty of Fraud in Gen Re-AIG Trial
Feb 25 2008 // A federal court jury in Hartford, Connecticut has found four former General Re Corp. executives and one former American International Group executive guilty of corporate fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from...
Conn. Opens Runaway Truck Ramp on Avon Mountain
Feb 22 2008 // Connecticut transportation officials have opened a runaway truck ramp at a dangerous hilly intersection – more than two years after a fatal wreck and five months after a second crash. Work on the $2.8 million ramp on...
Conn. to Hold Hearing on PXRE Acquisition
Feb 19 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department said it will hold a public hearing later this month on the proposed acquisition of PXRE Reinsurance Co. by U.K.-based Tawa. Tawa announced the plans to acquire the company from...
Conn. Exempts Some Insurers’ Form and Rate Filings
Feb 15 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department this month launched a year-long pilot program that will exempt some complicated commercial rate and form filings from being initially reviewed by the state – although insurers...
Conn. Court Upholds $15K Verdict in Wedding Date Lawsuit
Feb 14 2008 // A Connecticut appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that awarded a bride $15,000 for emotional distress following a “Shakespearean drama of confusion and lost opportunities” that resulted in...
Connecticut Agents Get Online License Renewals
Feb 12 2008 // There’ll be no more ink and paper for Connecticut agents looking to renew or change their insurance licenses. That’s because the state’s insurance department said it has upgraded its computer systems to...
Conn. Jury Awards Record $38.5M in Malpractice Lawsuit
Feb 11 2008 // A Superior Court jury in Stamford, Conn. has ordered a city obstetrician to pay $38.5 million to the family of a boy born with cerebral palsy in 2003. The verdict is believed to be among the largest medical malpractice...
