Latest Connecticut Headlines

Conn. Court Rejects Wrongful Death Claims Against Pratt & Whitney

Feb 15 2006 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld a trial court ruling that bars wrongful death claims over the deaths by brain cancer of more than 60 workers in Pratt and Whitney’s jet engine manufacturing plant. The court...

Travelers’ Foundations Provide $15 Million to Community Organizations

Feb 14 2006 // Minnesota-based St. Paul Travelers and its two private foundations, St. Paul Travelers Foundation and St. Paul Travelers Connecticut Foundation, contributed more than $15 million in a total of of 418 grants to...

Conn. Gov. Rell to Outline Economic Development Plan Today

Feb 8 2006 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell will propose as part of her mid-term budget adjustment a new plan to create jobs, improve the state’s economy and better prepare the state’s workforce for the nation’s...

Conn. AG Blumenthal Proposes Trucking Safety ‘Hall of Shame’

Feb 7 2006 // If conscience and good business practices are not enough to make Connecticut trucking companies comply with safety regulations, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal hopes the threat of public humiliation will do the...

Continental Agency of Connecticut Reorganizes Executive Staff

Feb 1 2006 // Continental Agency of Connecticut Inc., Hamden, Conn. reported the reorganization of its executive administration. Walter Prast is the new chief executive officer and chief financial officer; Gerard Prast now serves as...

Conn. Patient Group Advocating Hospital Infection Disclosure

Jan 23 2006 // A patient safety group in Connecticut is pushing for a law that would require hospitals to track and publicly disclose cases of infections contracted in hospitals. The measure, according to the Connecticut Center for...

News Briefs

Jan 22 2006 // Conn. Democrats eye merger of departments Senate Democratic leaders in Hartford have come up with several proposals they say will make Connecticut more business friendly, including the merger of the insurance and banking...

Business Moves

Jan 22 2006 // Bollinger, MLW Services Bollinger Inc. has acquired MLW Services Inc. of New York. The principals of MLW, Andrew Marks, president and CEO, Bert Linder, executive vice president and Chuck Weisblum, chairman, will continue...

News Currents

Jan 22 2006 // From New England to Virginia, courts and juries made insurance headlines Up and down the East coast, much of the most interesting local insurance news in 2005 took place in the courts of law and not in the court of public...

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Jan 22 2006 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2006 National Directory of Excess, Surplus and Specialty Markets, Volume 1. This exclusive biannual market directory has been designed to assist independent agents and brokers in the...

Conn. Gov. Rell Pushes Road Safety at Avon Mountain Crash Site

Jan 18 2006 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has proposed doubling the fines for people who break traffic laws on Avon Mountain, part of a package of recommendations prompted by a fiery crash that killed four people over the summer. Rell...

Northeast Winds Topple Trees, Power Lines from Mass. to Maryland

Jan 18 2006 // Usually snow and ice are the culprits this time of year in the Northeast for problems with the weather. Wednesday, though, proved to be Mother Nature offering a different problem for residents. Winds, in some cases...

Conn. Senate Democrats Eye Merger of Insurance and Banking Agencies

Jan 11 2006 // Senate Democratic leaders in Hartford have proposed several changes in state law they say will make Connecticut more business friendly. The proposals include merging the insurance and banking departments to “better...

Conn. Town Hall Destroyed by Fire Found to be Uninsured

Jan 5 2006 // A fire on Tuesday destroyed the town of Griswold, Conn.’s historic former Town Hall, which led to the discovery that the $2.1 million insurance policy on the building expired in October. The fire reduced the...

Mass. Savings Bank Life Starts Conn. Insurer

Jan 4 2006 // The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (SBLI) it is now actively conducting business in Connecticut under the name Centrian Life Insurance. The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts has...

ProSelect Loses Conn. Rate Bid

Jan 3 2006 // The Connecticut Department of Insurance has reaffirmed an October decision denying a 12 percent increase in medical malpractice insurance rates requested by ProSelect. ProSelect had appealed the earlier rejection of the...

Jan 1 2006 // Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, a Boston-based auto insurer, has appointed Matthew H. Cronin as senior marketing representative and Sean P. Farrelly as marketing representative, both in Connecticut. Cronin will...

From New England to Virginia, Courts Made Insurance Headlines in 2005

Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light. But much of the...

Federal Loans Offered to Conn. Flood Victims

Dec 27 2005 // Feds offer low-interest loans for flood damage in Conn. Received by Newsfinder from AP Dec 23, 2005 20:21 Eastern Time Federal low-interest loans are available to Connecticut businesses, nonprofit groups and residents...

Conn. Report Says Technicalities Let Drunken Drivers Escape

Dec 21 2005 // More than 5,000 drunken driving cases over the last four years escaped enforcement action by the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles mostly because of technicalities, a new report shows. Those technicalities included...