Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Business Risk Partners Hires Professional Liability Underwriter in Connecticut
Jun 23 2014 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, has appointed Erinn Coletti as professional liability underwriter. Previously, Coletti served as a specialty underwriter at The Hanover Insurance...
Connecticut Launches New Online Tool for Catastrophe Adjuster Registration
Jun 17 2014 // The Connecticut Insurance Department announced Monday the launch of a new online program that would make it easier and quicker for insurance companies to register their emergency adjusters with the state when a damaging...
Connecticut’s Certificates of Insurance Bill Signed Into Law
Jun 13 2014 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recently signed into law H.B.5248 that prohibits the inappropriate use and issuance of certificates of insurance. The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc., an industry...
Metro-North Railroad Says Most Safety Upgrades Are Complete
Jun 13 2014 // Metro-North Railroad, the nation’s second-largest commuter rail system, on Wednesday released a final report on what it has done to improve safety following a series of accidents last year and said it has completed...
Vendor: Conn. Health Marketplace Call Center Worker Had No Ill Intent for Data
Jun 11 2014 // The vendor operating Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace call center took responsibility Monday for an employee leaving behind a backpack containing personal information of hundreds of clients outside a...
Hartford CEO McGee Steps Down for Medical Recovery; Swift Named CEO
Jun 9 2014 // Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. promoted Christopher Swift to chief executive officer, replacing Liam McGee, who is stepping down after a medical procedure. Swift, 53, the chief financial officer who joined from...
Conn. Fines Apple Store Contractors for Lacking Workers’ Comp Coverage
Jun 6 2014 // The Connecticut Department of Labor is fining three out-of-state contractors working at an Apple Store in West Hartford for not having worker’s compensation insurance coverage for their employees. The case has...
Connecticut Hospital Ordered to Pay $12M in Medical Malpractice Case
Jun 2 2014 // A jury in a medical malpractice case awarded $12 million last Friday to a Connecticut woman who said a doctor punctured her colon during a routine hernia operation, leaving her with permanent injuries. Vivian Gagliano, 65,...
Conn. Governor Defends State-Led Insurance Regulation
Jun 2 2014 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recently told a crowd of U.S. and international regulators that when it comes to insurance regulation, states are “here are stay” and that the states – not the federal...
Ridesharing Firms Uber, Lyft Accused of Racketeering in Conn. Cab Lawsuit
May 22 2014 // Ride-sharing services Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. were accused of racketeering in a lawsuit by Connecticut taxi and livery firms, which said the companies “prey parasitically” on established...
Connecticut Residents Feeling Financial Strain as Flood Insurance Cost Rises
May 15 2014 // People living on Porter Avenue in Middlebury, Conn., face a threat that could put their homes underwater — but it’s not coming from nearby Long Swamp Brook. The rising cost of flood insurance is putting a...
Conn. Gov.: When It Comes to Insurance Regulation, States Are Here to Stay
May 14 2014 // Speaking at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ International Insurance Forum, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told a crowd of U.S. and international regulators and insurance representatives that...
In Connecticut, Sea Level Predictions Prompt New Awareness in Communities
May 13 2014 // In Connecticut, the global issue of climate change is being confronted locally. The Day of New London reports that in Old Saybrook, a municipal panel met for the first time last week to consider how to help the low-lying...
Connecticut Insurance Dept. Recovers $1.6M for Policyholders, Taxpayers in Q1
May 5 2014 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi announced that the Connecticut Insurance Department recovered nearly $1.6 million for policyholders and taxpayers in the first three months of 2014. “The...
Business Risk Partners Hires Brault as Broker Relations Director in Conn.
May 5 2014 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, has appointed Stephen L. Brault to the newly created position of director of broker relations.Stephen L. BraultIn his new role at Business Risk...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires American Wholesalers Underwriting in Connecticut
Apr 28 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. recently announced the acquisition of American Wholesalers Underwriting in Stamford, Conn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1994, American Wholesalers Underwriting...
Report: Federal Inspectors Found 7,100 Metro-North Defects Over Last Decade
Apr 8 2014 // A Connecticut newspaper reports that federal inspectors found more than 7,100 defects and deficiencies in the Metro-North Railroad over the last decade, but records show regulators launched an investigation only after two...
New Flood Insurance Law Only Slows Rate Hike for 14K Conn. Property Owners
Mar 27 2014 // Stephen Nelson and Mary Anne Mayo are still struggling with the destruction from Superstorm Sandy, nearly 18 months after it swept through their Westport, Conn., home, taking their first-floor belongings into the Saugatuck...
Catalina Holdings to Acquire SPARTA Insurance in Connecticut
Mar 26 2014 // Catalina Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based consolidator in the non-life run-off sector, announced it has agreed to acquire SPARTA Insurance Holdings, a property/casualty underwriting company in Hartford, Conn. Following the...
Declarations
Mar 24 2014 // Consumer Protection “Keeping the public well-informed is essential to our mission of consumer protection.” —Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi on his department’s recently launched...
