Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Bill to Presume Conn. Firefighters’ Cancer Is Work-Related
Mar 23 2015 // Connecticut state lawmakers are considering legislation that would presume firefighters who have cancer most likely got it from their jobs, easing claims for insurance or workers’ compensation. The science supports...
Conn. Revisits Workers’ Comp for First Responders With PTSD
Mar 23 2015 // Connecticut’s General Assembly is revisiting whether to grant workers’ compensation coverage for certain first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, such as those who responded to the mass...
Former Cigna VP Wade Selected to Lead Connecticut Insurance Department
Mar 20 2015 // Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is nominating Katharine L. Wade to serve as commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department. Wade succeeds Thomas B. Leonardi who stepped down from the...
Connecticut Revisits Workers’ Comp for First Responders With PTSD
Mar 16 2015 // The Connecticut General Assembly is revisiting whether to grant workers’ compensation coverage for certain first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, such as those who responded to the mass...
InsuraMatch Online ‘Super Agency’ Offers ‘Personality-Driven’ Options
Mar 12 2015 // Do you prefer a fixed price or a la carte? How about paperless or paper? Are you a cat person or a dog person? Do you prefer “old school” or “new school”? These are some of the optional questions...
Connecticut Gov.’s Budget Shifts $9M in Public Health Expenses to Insurers
Mar 9 2015 // Some of Connecticut’s insurers would pick up the tab for breast and cervical cancer detection, AIDS services and venereal disease control under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed two-year, approximately $40...
Connecticut Bill Would Help Firefighters Claim Cancer Compensation
Mar 9 2015 // Connecticut state lawmakers are considering legislation that would presume firefighters who have cancer most likely got it from their jobs, easing claims for insurance or workers’ compensation. The science supports...
Connecticut Debates How to Regulate Rideshare Services
Mar 4 2015 // Connecticut is the latest state to grapple with how to regulate Uber and other ride-hailing services being embraced by the public but angering the long-established taxi and livery industry. Taxi and livery drivers say...
Conn. Senator Urges DOJ to Investigate Auto Insurers’ ‘Preferred’ Repair Shops
Feb 24 2015 // U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a recently aired CNN report’s allegation that auto insurers may be pressuring consumers to repair their vehicles at...
Business Risk Partners Hires Simmons as E&O Manager in Connecticut
Feb 20 2015 // Bruce Simmons Business Risk Partners, a program administrator in specialty insurance, has hired Bruce Simmons as errors and omissions (E&O) manager for miscellaneous professional liability (MPL) and cyber liability...
Connecticut Bill Would Bar Driving With Pet on Lap
Feb 11 2015 // Connecticut lawmakers are considering whether to make it illegal for pets to ride in a vehicle while sitting on the driver’s lap. Under a bill before the Connecticut General Assembly’s Transportation Committee,...
Conn. Urges Feds Not to Preempt States on Reducing Foreign Re Collateral
Feb 11 2015 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a vocal proponent of state-based insurance regulation in the U.S., sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and U.S. Trade Representative...
Conn. Tax Commissioner Says Anthem Customers Should File Taxes Quickly
Feb 10 2015 // Connecticut’s tax commissioner is urging taxpayers expecting federal or state income tax refunds who may be affected by the Anthem data breach to file their taxes quickly. Kevin Sullivan, head of the Department of...
Connecticut Bills Aim to Ramp Up Texting While Driving Fines
Feb 9 2015 // A Connecticut legislative committee is set to hear public testimony on several bills aimed at combating texting while driving in Connecticut. Several state lawmakers in Connecticut have submitted legislation this session...
Smith Brothers Insurance Acquires McMahon Co. in Connecticut
Feb 9 2015 // Smith Brothers Insurance LLC, an independent insurance agency based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, has acquired the assets of the McMahon Company Inc., an independent agency in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Terms of the...
Conn. Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Homeowner Insurance Link to Dogs
Feb 9 2015 // A Connecticut state lawmaker is introducing legislation that would bar insurance companies from inquiring about or discriminating against a “bully breed” dog when issuing a homeowners’ insurance policy in...
States Begin Investigating Insurer Anthem’s Data Breach
Feb 6 2015 // Several U.S. states are investigating a massive cyber attack on No. 2 U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc that a person familiar with the matter said is being examined for possible ties to China. Anthem disclosed the attack...
N.Y. Court: Media Outlets Don’t Have to Delete Stories When Charges Nixed
Feb 2 2015 // A Connecticut woman’s claims that media outlets libeled her by refusing to delete stories about her arrest after charges were dismissed were rejected by a federal appeals court on Jan. 28. The ruling by the 2nd U.S....
Conn. Regulators Recovered $6.3M for Policyholders, Taxpayers in 2014
Jan 30 2015 // The Connecticut Insurance Department recovered approximately $6.3 million for policyholders and taxpayers in 2014, the state’s Deputy Insurance Commissioner Anne Melissa Dowling announced today. “Connecticut...
AIR Worldwide Reports on This Week’s Northeast Blizzard
Jan 29 2015 // A blizzard in the Northeast this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island in New York, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record...
