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Mass. Savings Bank Life Starts Conn. Insurer

Jan 4 2006 // The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (SBLI) it is now actively conducting business in Connecticut under the name Centrian Life Insurance. The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts has...

ProSelect Loses Conn. Rate Bid

Jan 3 2006 // The Connecticut Department of Insurance has reaffirmed an October decision denying a 12 percent increase in medical malpractice insurance rates requested by ProSelect. ProSelect had appealed the earlier rejection of the...

Jan 1 2006 // Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, a Boston-based auto insurer, has appointed Matthew H. Cronin as senior marketing representative and Sean P. Farrelly as marketing representative, both in Connecticut. Cronin will...

From New England to Virginia, Courts Made Insurance Headlines in 2005

Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light. But much of the...

Federal Loans Offered to Conn. Flood Victims

Dec 27 2005 // Feds offer low-interest loans for flood damage in Conn. Received by Newsfinder from AP Dec 23, 2005 20:21 Eastern Time Federal low-interest loans are available to Connecticut businesses, nonprofit groups and residents...

Conn. Report Says Technicalities Let Drunken Drivers Escape

Dec 21 2005 // More than 5,000 drunken driving cases over the last four years escaped enforcement action by the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles mostly because of technicalities, a new report shows. Those technicalities included...

Conn. Approves Industry’s Workers’ Comp Rate Boost

Dec 14 2005 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan Cogswell has approved a slight boost in workers compensation insurance rates effective Jan. 1. She accepted the recommendations from the industry’s National Council on...

Conn. Jury Awards $32 Million to Injured Construction Worker

Dec 12 2005 // A Waterbury, Conn. jury has awarded $32.1 million to a Bristol construction worker paralyzed in an accident more than a decade ago. Norman Pelletier, 54, was permanently paralyzed below the chest when a steal beam at a...

Conn. High Court Asked to Rule on Catholic Church Abuse Documents

Dec 9 2005 // In a case that could have implications for New York Cardinal Edward Egan, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport asked the Connecticut Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that newspapers can ask for documents related...

State Security Kept in Dark During Conn. Courthouse Bomb Threat

Dec 7 2005 // Connecticut homeland security officials went more than two hours Friday without knowing that a series of bomb threats had forced the evacuation and shutdown of the state’s 45 courthouses, authorities acknowledged...

Bellett Joins Crew at Gowrie Barden & Brett Agency in Conn.

Dec 5 2005 // Gowrie, Barden, & Brett in Westbrook, Conn. announced that Lenny Bellet recently joined the agency as a sales agent specializing in home, auto and yacht insurance. Prior to GBB, Brett was employed by Windward Marine...

Cronin, Farrelly Named To Represent Plymouth Rock with Conn. Agents

Dec 5 2005 // Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, a Boston-based auto insurer, has appointed Matthew H. Cronin as senior marketing representative in Connecticut and Sean P. Farrelly as marketing representative in Connecticut. In this...

Conn. Proud of Its ‘Common Sense’ Compensation Disclosure Law

Dec 5 2005 // States in search of a “common sense” approach to insurance producer compensation disclosure might consider talking to Connecticut officials, that state’s commissioner recently proposed. “I’m...

WORK-RELATED DEATHS:

Dec 5 2005 // The number of deaths in Connecticut due to work-related injuries increased by 50 percent last year, rising from 36 to 54, according to a state report. Connecticut is one of 27 states to have reported an increase in...

$36.5 Million Malpractice Award May be Record for Conn.

Dec 4 2005 // A jury has awarded $36.5 million to the family of a 6-year-old boy who is blind, brain damaged and suffering from cerebral palsy since he was injured during his delivery via a surrogate mother at Hartford Hospital. The...

Conn. Proud of Its ‘Common Sense’ Compensation Disclosure Law

Dec 4 2005 // States in search of a “common sense” approach to insurance producer compensation disclosure might consider talking to Connecticut officials, that state’s commissioner recently proposed. “I’m...

News Briefs

Dec 4 2005 // CONNECTICUT Work-Related Deaths: The number of deaths in Connecticut due to work-related injuries increased by 50 percent last year, rising from 36 to 54, according to a state report. Connecticut is one of 27 states to...

Conn. Courthouses Evacuated After Bomb Threat Called into Governor

Dec 2 2005 // State police ordered the evacuation of 45 courthouses across Connecticut today at about 1 p.m. in response to a reported bomb threat. The evacuation and subsequent police search of the buildings halted the activities of...

Under Conn. Settlement Recalculation, Aon to Pay More to Clients and Towns

Dec 1 2005 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal reported that more than 20 Connecticut municipalities, corporations and individuals will receive more money than anticipated from the Aon Corporation settlement after his...

Conn. Names Fernandez to Lead New Insurance Development Agency

Nov 28 2005 // Six months after she announced creation of the office, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has named Barbara Fernandez to lead the state’s Insurance and Financial Services (IFS) Business Development Office. The office...