Latest Connecticut Headlines
All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sarbanes-Oxley use in Conn. case worries corporate defense bar
Mar 26 2007 // The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a Connecticut child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute...
Conn. Ruling Lowers Bar for Suits Against Self-Service Operations
Mar 26 2007 // The state Supreme Court has adopted a new legal rule making it easier for plaintiffs to sue businesses for negligence alleged in self-service operations. Customers who are injured at a business previously had to...
Insurer to Pay $17.5 Million in Conn. I-84 Faulty Construction Claim
Mar 23 2007 // The insurer behind the performance bond for part of the troubled Interstate-84 construction in Connecticut will pay $17.5 million to settle claims involving installation of defective drains, according to an agreement...
Conn. Agents Cite OneBeacon’s Evans as Company Pro of Year
Mar 21 2007 // Ken Evans, territory manager for OneBeacon Small Business in Canton, Mass., has been named this year’s recipient of the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Company Professional of the Year...
Wilson Heads Conn. Agents’ Group
Mar 20 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. elected officers during the association’s annual convention last week at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. Following are the new officers who will...
Conn. Agents Honor DiMatteo as Agent of Year
Mar 20 2007 // Victoria DiMatteo, co-owner of A.A. DiMatteo Insurance Service Center in Shelton, Conn., received the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Professional Agent of the Year award last week during the...
Conn. Municipal Insurer Names Wollschlager
Mar 19 2007 // Bruce A. Wollschlager has assumed the roles of president and chief executive officer at the Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency, a program of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities that provides...
Carpooling Parents Don’t Need Special License, Conn. Officials Say
Mar 19 2007 // The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles says despite what an insurance company claims, parents who drive students to school events or field trips don’t need a special license. The issue came up when the...
Conn. Regulators Conclude They Can Probe Phone Records Issue
Mar 14 2007 // The state Department of Public Utility Control has concluded that despite federal government objections, it has the authority to investigate the release of thousands of phone records to the National Security Agency. The...
Lobbyist Bill Takes Hold in Conn. Ethics Law
Mar 13 2007 // Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the Office of State Ethics announced a new educational campaign designed to inform the public about the practice of lobbying. The “Are You A Lobbyist?” campaign will help educate the...
News Currents
Mar 12 2007 // Conn. AG probes insurer, agency relationship Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has issued subpoenas in an investigation of bonus commissions and other possible financial arrangements between Middlesex Mutual...
Conn. AG probes insurer, agency relationship
Mar 12 2007 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has issued subpoenas in an investigation of bonus commissions and other possible financial arrangements between Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. in Middletown and H.D. Segur...
Insurance Company Sues Contractor Behind Botched I-84 project in Conn.
Mar 8 2007 // The insurance company that guaranteed a contractor’s work on the apparently botched widening of Interstate 84 in the Waterbury area is suing, claiming company officials siphoned off millions of dollars for personal...
Judge Rules Truck in Conn. Avon Mountain Crash Was Uninsured
Mar 7 2007 // A federal judge has ruled that the insurance company for a Bloomfield trucking company involved in a fiery fatal crash on Avon mountain does not have to pay victims and families of those killed. The ruling involves...
Sarbanes-Oxley Charges in Conn. Case Worry Corporate Defense Lawyers
Mar 6 2007 // The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a Connecticut child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute...
Former U.S. Rep. Simmons Tapped to be Conn.’s First Business Advocate
Feb 27 2007 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has nominated former 2nd District Congressman Rob Simmons of Stonington as the state’s first Business Advocate, a position created by the General Assembly during the 2006 legislative...
Almost Half of Conn. Cell Phone Violators Let Off the Hook
Feb 14 2007 // Violators of the state’s cell phone ban ponied up about $700,000 last year by mailing in the $100 fine and not contesting the citation, but the state potentially missed out on more money by not prosecuting the...
Tighter steering in Conn.
Feb 12 2007 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has drafted legislation that he says would strengthen the state’s anti-steering law prohibiting insurers from forcing consumers to use a preferred auto repair shop as a...
Conn. Agencies Merge
Feb 5 2007 // Darien, Conn.-based independent insurance agency Fisher & Fisher has merged with Westbrook-based Gowrie, Barden & Brett. John Fisher will serve as president of the company’s Personal Insurance Division. The...
Health Execs’ Group Disbands Under Antitrust Settlement with Conn.
Jan 30 2007 // A national organization of health care executives has agreed to disband amid an investigation by Connecticut authorities into whether it illegally gave preferential treatment to vendors who joined the group. State Attorney...
