Latest Connecticut Headlines
All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Double Duty
Apr 23 2007 // Twenty-nine year old Peter Webb served his country in the U.S. Marines for eight years. Since then, Sergeant Webb has spent four years serving small businesses as an account manager and producer for an Oklahoma City...
Sullivan Confirmed as Conn.’s New Insurance Commissioner
Apr 19 2007 // The Connecticut House of Representatives has confirmed the nomination of a former claims executive with The Hartford, Thomas R. Sullivan, to be the state’s new insurance commissioner. The confirmation, a voice vote...
J. Biron Agency in Conn. Resumes Bond-Only Operations
Apr 16 2007 // Jane Biron Siviski has reactivated her former exclusive bond-only agency in Newington, Conn. Biron Siviski, owner of The J. Biron Agency, Inc., announced that her company has separated from Sinclair Insurance Group of...
Conn. Study Ties Teens’ Risky Behavior, Drunk Driving to Race
Apr 10 2007 // White teenagers in Connecticut are more likely to drive drunk, and black and Hispanic teens are more likely to engage in risky sex, according to a study by the nonprofit Connecticut Voices for Children. The stud looks at...
Hartford Specialty Risk’s Sullivan named Conn. insurance chief
Apr 9 2007 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell is naming a claims administration executive, Thomas R. Sullivan, to be the state’s insurance commissioner, replacing Susan Cogswell who is stepping down from the top regulatory post...
People and Places
Apr 9 2007 // The Main Street America Group has promoted Ed Kuhl to executive vice president, chief financial officer, and Dick Schultz to assistant vice president, and appointed Tom Frazier to assistant treasurer. Kuhl joined Main...
Conn. self-service businesses face new liability standard
Apr 9 2007 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has adopted a new legal rule making it easier for plaintiffs to sue businesses in the state for negligence alleged in self-service operations. Customers who are injured at a business...
People
Apr 9 2007 // The Main Street America Group has promoted Ed Kuhl to executive vice president, chief financial officer, and Dick Schultz to assistant vice president, and appointed Tom Frazier to assistant treasurer. Kuhl joined Main...
Hartford Specialty Risk Exec Sullivan to be Conn. Insurance Chief
Apr 3 2007 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell is naming a claims administration executive, Thomas R. Sullivan, to be the state’s insurance commissioner, replacing Susan Cogswell who is stepping down from the top regulatory post...
Unsealed Report Alleges Improper Conduct by Fired MassMutual CEO
Apr 2 2007 // MassMutual Financial Group launched a clandestine probe against its chief executive after his wife complained that he was having an affair with a high-ranking female executive, according to a once-confidential report made...
Conn. AG Hits Department’s Failure to Penalize Health Insurer
Mar 30 2007 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the state Department of Insurance (DOI) has failed to hold an insurance company accountable for “repeatedly and unconscionably denying consumers promised health...
Conn. Court: AG Must Release Internal MassMutual Report on CEO
Mar 27 2007 // Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today that the Connecticut Supreme Court has dismissed Mass Mutual’s appeal to stop him from publicly releasing the company’s internal investigative report on its former...
The Hartford Reports $7 Million in Philanthropy
Mar 27 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. reportted that it has awarded more than $7 million in community support to nonprofit organizations across the country in 2006. In Connecticut, where The Hartford’s...
Carpoolers in Conn. spared licensing
Mar 26 2007 // The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles says despite what an insurance company claims, parents who drive students to school events or field trips don’t need a special license. The issue came up when the...
Sarbanes-Oxley use in Conn. case worries corporate defense bar
Mar 26 2007 // The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a Connecticut child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute...
Conn. Ruling Lowers Bar for Suits Against Self-Service Operations
Mar 26 2007 // The state Supreme Court has adopted a new legal rule making it easier for plaintiffs to sue businesses for negligence alleged in self-service operations. Customers who are injured at a business previously had to...
Insurer to Pay $17.5 Million in Conn. I-84 Faulty Construction Claim
Mar 23 2007 // The insurer behind the performance bond for part of the troubled Interstate-84 construction in Connecticut will pay $17.5 million to settle claims involving installation of defective drains, according to an agreement...
Conn. Agents Cite OneBeacon’s Evans as Company Pro of Year
Mar 21 2007 // Ken Evans, territory manager for OneBeacon Small Business in Canton, Mass., has been named this year’s recipient of the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Company Professional of the Year...
Wilson Heads Conn. Agents’ Group
Mar 20 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. elected officers during the association’s annual convention last week at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. Following are the new officers who will...
Conn. Agents Honor DiMatteo as Agent of Year
Mar 20 2007 // Victoria DiMatteo, co-owner of A.A. DiMatteo Insurance Service Center in Shelton, Conn., received the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Professional Agent of the Year award last week during the...
