Latest Connecticut Headlines
All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Connecticut Licenses New Health Care Captive
Jun 20 2016 // Connecticut Insurance Department announced that it has licensed a non-profit captive insurance cooperative comprising several Connecticut municipalities and school districts. The new health care captive aims to give...
Connecticut Regulator Licenses New Health Care Captive
Jun 9 2016 // Connecticut Insurance Department announced Thursday that it has licensed a non-profit captive insurance cooperative comprising several Connecticut municipalities and school districts that aims to give communities greater...
Connecticut Reviewing Health Insurers’ Rate Hike Requests
Jun 8 2016 // Connecticut’s Department of Insurance is reviewing rate increase requests filed by 14 health insurance companies that range on average from 2.1 percent to 32 percent. The private plans, offered on and off the...
Access Health CT Helping 18K Enrollees Find New Plans
May 31 2016 // Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace is helping up to 18,000 people who no longer qualify for Medicaid health coverage to enroll in private insurance plans. Access Health CT says it will begin reaching out on...
Feds: 6 Connecticut Men Staged 50 Car Crashes for Insurance Money
May 25 2016 // Federal prosecutors say six Connecticut residents have been charged with staging car crashes so they could make fraudulent insurance claims. U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly said Tuesday that five Norwich residents and one New...
Business Moves
May 23 2016 // Confie, Automobile Insurance Specialists Inc., Trinity Insurance LLC, Whitehead Insurance Inc. Confie has acquired three insurance agencies in Las Vegas, South Florida, and Washington State. Confie acquired the assets of:...
Lockton Acquires Outland Consultants in Connecticut
May 19 2016 // Insurance broker Lockton announced Thursday that it has acquired Outland Consultants, a global employee benefits consultancy in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Since 1998, Outland...
NCCI Sees Stable Trends in New England
May 2 2016 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance says it is seeing generally stable trends in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont — five New England states where NCCI serves as a licensed rating...
Former Connecticut Agency Owner Sentenced to Prison
May 2 2016 // A Connecticut insurance agent authorities say defrauded a specialty lender, insurance carriers, the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut out of more than $2 million to fund a lavish lifestyle has been sentenced to...
Connecticut Gov. Signs Order Strengthening State Building Code
Apr 28 2016 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced that, as Connecticut faces more frequent and severe weather events as a result of global warming, he is directing state agencies to develop new building code standards that will...
NCCI Sees Stable Trends in New England
Apr 28 2016 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance says it is seeing generally stable trends in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont — five New England states where NCCI serves as a licensed rating and...
Conn. Court: Law Doesn’t Bar Suits Against Cigarette Manufacturers
Apr 27 2016 // Cigarette manufacturers aren’t immune to lawsuits by smokers who get sick, Connecticut’s highest court ruled Monday in a decision that bolsters the case of a smoker who was stricken with laryngeal cancer and...
Labrie Joins Hanover Stone Partners in Connecticut
Apr 26 2016 // Daniel Labrie Hanover Stone Partners, a risk management services firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, has hired Daniel Labrie as senior risk advisor. Based in Berlin, Connecticut, Labrie will help provide a wide array of...
People’s United Acquires Eagle Insurance in Massachusetts
Apr 21 2016 // People’s United Bank, N.A. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announced Thursday that its subsidiary, People’s United Insurance Agency, has acquired Eagle Insurance Group, a Raynham, Massachusetts-based insurance...
Business Risk Partners Adds 2 New Underwriters in Connecticut
Apr 19 2016 // Maggie Mae Kores Business Risk Partners (BRP), a specialty underwriter and program administrator based in Windsor, Connecticut, has added two new underwriters to its professional liability team: Maggie Mae Kores as senior...
Former Connecticut Agency Owner Gets More Than 6 Years for Fraud Scheme
Apr 15 2016 // A Connecticut insurance agent authorities say defrauded a specialty lender, insurance carriers, the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut out of more than $2 million to fund a lavish lifestyle has been sentenced to...
Connecticut Cab Companies Drop Lawsuit Against Uber
Apr 14 2016 // More than a dozen taxi and limousine companies in Connecticut have dropped their federal lawsuit accusing ride-hailing company Uber of failing to follow state laws and regulations on taxi services, their lawyer said...
IFG Companies Promotes Lewis to President in Connecticut
Apr 12 2016 // IFG Companies announced that its Board of Directors has approved the promotion of Christopher M. Lewis to group president. Lewis is based in IFG’s Hartford, Connecticut, office. Lewis has been serving as interim...
Legal Pot Proponents Urge Connecticut Legislators to Act Fast
Apr 8 2016 // Proponents of legalizing marijuana in Connecticut urged state lawmakers to act quickly and capitalize on the “novelty factor” of possibly becoming the first New England state to allow recreational use of the...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Joseph Distel & Co. in Connecticut
Mar 30 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Joseph Distel & Co. Inc. in Farmington, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1955, Joseph Distel & Co. is a managing...
