Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Class Status Granted in Connecticut Volleyball Lawsuit
May 26 2010 // A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit filed by members of Quinnipiac University’s volleyball team alleging gender discrimination in the school’s athletic programs. Judge Stefan...
John M. Glover Agency Acquires APS San Angelo in Connecticut
May 20 2010 // John M. Glover Agency has acquired APS San Angelo Insurance Agency based in Waterbury, Connecticut. Terms of the deal were not released. APS San Angelo has been doing business in the Waterbury area for over 50 years. John...
Connecticut Babysitter to Pay $1.1M Settlement over Boy’s Drowning
May 17 2010 // A Connecticut teenager and her mother have agreed to pay $1.1 million to the family of a toddler who drowned while the girl was baby-sitting. The New Haven Register reports that Cheshire Probate Judge Raymond Voelker...
Business Moves
May 17 2010 // W.R. Berkley, Verus Underwriting Connecticut-based insurer W. R. Berkley Corp has launched Richmond, Virginia-based Verus Underwriting Managers, a subsidiary that will provide property and casualty excess and surplus lines...
Connecticut Woman Alleges Genetic Discrimination at Work
May 17 2010 // A woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after learning she carried a gene implicated in breast cancer. Pamela Fink, 39, said in discrimination...
Brown & Brown Acquires Four Connecticut Insurance Agencies
May 14 2010 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired four retail insurance agencies in central and southeastern Connecticut with combined revenues of $7.2 million. The acquired agencies are McCutcheon Burr & Sons, of...
Connecticut Jury Awards $2.9M to Bicyclist for Collision
May 11 2010 // A Connecticut jury has awarded $2.9 million to a bicyclist who was injured when she hit a gate on West Hartford land owned by a regional water and sewer agency. Maribeth Blonski of Rocky Hill sued the Hartford-based...
Connecticut Lawmakers Fail to Take Up Power Plant Bill
May 7 2010 // Connecticut lawmakers ran out of time to pass legislation that addresses power plant safety in the wake of the deadly Feb. 7 Kleen Energy plant explosion in Middletown. Some legislators were still attempting to pass a bill...
Bill for Seat Belts on Connecticut Buses Clears Senate
May 6 2010 // A bill that provides Connecticut school districts with a financial incentive to buy school buses with seat belts is heading to the governor. The Senate gave the bill final legislative approval late Tuesday night. The...
Ex-Agent Gets Five Years for Connecticut Fraud
May 6 2010 // A Connecticut financial adviser has been sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding more than two dozen clients of more than $2 million and losing the money while gambling in casinos. Thomas Cipriano was sentenced...
Connecticut Agent to be Sentenced Today for $1.3M Theft
May 4 2010 // A Connecticut businessman faces sentencing for stealing more than $1.3 million from clients and using the money to gamble at Connecticut’s casinos. Thomas Cipriano has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money...
Connecticut Lawmakers Pass Temporary TARP Bonus Tax
May 4 2010 // Connecticut lawmakers have approved a bill imposing extra taxes on bonuses paid to state employees of investment banks and insurers that received federal bailout aid during the economic crisis. The House of Representatives...
Connecticut Woman Alleges Genetic Discrimination at Work
Apr 30 2010 // A woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after learning she carried a gene implicated in breast cancer. Pamela Fink, 39, said in discrimination...
Mixed Ruling in Connecticut Contingent Commissions Case
Apr 26 2010 // A Connecticut court has ruled that Wells Fargo-owned insurance brokerage Acordia Inc. broke the law by failing to disclose it received contingent commissions from five insurers. At issue in the case was an internal...
Connecticut Recovered over $1M from Insurers in First Quarter
Apr 22 2010 // The Connecticut Insurance Department said it recovered over $1 million on behalf of consumer in the first quarter of the year. The department’s consumer affairs unity, which oversee complaints against insurers,...
Foremost Insurance Launches Auto Program in Connecticut
Apr 20 2010 // Foremost Insurance Group has launched its DistinctChoice Auto program in Connecticut. The auto program features increased limits, deductible options and coverages. The program also offers broad eligibility and discounts....
Sweethearts in Crime: Rise in Married Couples in Securities Fraud
Apr 16 2010 // Jeffery Stone and his wife Janette Diller Stone, one-time operators of a now-defunct New York investment firm called Crescent Fund, are not on any government most wanted list. And they aren’t exactly hiding, either....
Connecticut Woman Wins Lawsuit Against 50 Cent Assistant
Apr 12 2010 // A woman who says she was beaten at 50 Cent’s Connecticut mansion has been awarded more than $30,000 in her lawsuit against a member of the rapper’s entourage. A Waterbury Superior Court judge ruled Thursday in...
Connecticut Fines GEICO $178K
Apr 9 2010 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has fined four GEICO subsidiaries a total of $177,500 for improper rating, claim delays and the use of unlicensed adjusters among other violations. The total fine is a result of smaller...
When Main Street Met Washington
Apr 7 2010 // Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. and surveys the lobby where roughly 150 other...
