Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Estimated 100,000 Hens Die in Blaze at Connecticut’s Hillendale Farms
Feb 1 2023 // BOZRAH, Conn. (AP) — An estimated 100,000 hens died in a weekend fire at a Connecticut farm owned by one of the country’s largest egg producers, Connecticut officials confirmed Monday. It’s one of several...
Connecticut Supreme Court Upholds Insurers in Two Covid-19 Business Loss Appeals
Jan 31 2023 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld insurers in two cases where claims for business interruption losses blamed on Covid-19 were denied because there was no direct physical damage. One case involved healthcare...
Connecticut Gov. Lamont Proposes Gun Laws
Jan 25 2023 // Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a series of proposed gun laws Monday in a state already considered one of the strictest for firearms ownership, including a statewide ban on open carrying expected to draw strong...
Insurer Finds No Foundation Problems in Connecticut Public Buildings
Jan 23 2023 // A review of concrete foundations of public buildings in northeastern Connecticut, including schools and fire stations, has found no widespread deterioration problems like what’s plagued hundreds of residential...
5 Connecticut Officers Plead Not Guilty in Police Van Paralysis Case
Jan 17 2023 // Five Connecticut police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in a police van with no seat belts when the driver braked hard. The...
Connecticut Gov. Lamont Reappoints Mais as Insurance Commissioner
Jan 5 2023 // Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has reappointed a number of commissioners including Insurance Commissioner Andrew Mais to continue serving in his second term in office: Lamont first nominated Mais in 2019 to oversee the...
Insurer Finds Connecticut Public Buildings Free From Foundation Problems of Homes
Dec 28 2022 // A review of concrete foundations of public buildings in northeastern Connecticut, including schools and fire stations, has found no widespread deterioration problems like what’s plagued hundreds of residential...
Brown & Brown Dealer Services Buys Connecticut Auto Dealer F&I Firm
Nov 8 2022 // Brown & Brown Dealer Services has acquired Finance Builders, a Canton, Connecticut firm providing finance and insurance (F&I) products and sales support to auto dealers in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Finance...
World Insurance Acquires CDR Group in Connecticut
Nov 8 2022 // National insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports that it acquired CDR Insurance Group, Inc. of Waterbury, Connecticut on October 1, 2022. CDR was founded in 1992 by Rick Rice. The agency provides commercial and...
Connecticut Approves 3% Cut in Workers’ Compensation Costs for 2023
Oct 24 2022 // Connecticut businesses will see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023. The Connecticut Insurance Department has officially approved an average decrease of 3% to...
Nine Injured in Connecticut When Train Hits Tractor-Trailer Stopped in Crossing
Oct 19 2022 // A commuter train hit a tractor-trailer Monday whose operator had driven to a rail crossing after leaving the scene of an earlier crash, transit authorities said. Nine train passengers suffered minor injuries. The...
Supreme Court Declines Connecticut Troopers’ Appeal Over Personnel Disclosure Law
Oct 5 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by the Connecticut State Police Union in its challenge of a police accountability law that allows public disclosure of certain state trooper personnel files and...
Regulatory Roundup: Florida Warns of Crypto Scam, Louisiana Helps with $129 Million in Additional Claims, Connecticut Weighs in on Federal Subsidies
Oct 4 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. State by state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory cultures can lend one the impression that keeping up with...
Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Costs to Fall in 2023
Sep 30 2022 // Connecticut workers’ compensation costs to employers are on their way down, again. The industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) has proposed an overall average change of -3.0% to the...
Connecticut Regulates ‘Defense Within Limits’ Provisions by Insurers
Sep 29 2022 // Connecticut’s insurance regulator has provided commercial insurers with updated guidance on “defense within limits” policy provisions including the lines of insurance on which they may be included and the...
Connecticut Lab Faces $907K in OSHA Fines Over Claims of Workers’ Chemical Exposure
Sep 27 2022 // For several months, employees at a Manchester, Connecticut environmental laboratory complained to management about faulty ventilation systems and about symptoms related to exposure to ethylene chloride, a highly hazardous...
Relation Insurance Acquires Mobeck-Guandalini in Connecticut
Sep 15 2022 // National insurance agency Relation Insurance Services has acquired Mobeck-Guandalini Insurance, a multi-line brokerage headquartered in Branford, Connecticut. Christopher Guandalini will continue to lead Mobeck-Guandalini...
Connecticut Trial Begins for Alex Jones in Sandy Hook Hoax Case
Sep 13 2022 // A month after losing one nearly $50 million verdict, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is set to go on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax and causing several of the victims’...
Connecticut Police Investigate Death of Man Days After Stun Gun Shot by Trooper
Sep 7 2022 // Connecticut state police are investigating a man’s death four days after a state trooper shot him with a stun gun, authorities said Friday. Ryan Marzi, 38, of Hebron, died unexpectedly in his sleep on Aug. 28,...
Bankruptcy Judge Clears Way for Defamation Case in Connecticut Against Alex Jones
Aug 17 2022 // A federal bankruptcy judge on Monday cleared the way for a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut to proceed against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The case was filed by relatives of some victims of the 2012...
