Latest Connecticut Headlines
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From Maine to Virginia … What Happened in 2004
Dec 20 2004 // Leaving aside the insurance brokerage compensation investigations, the World Trade Center trial, the St. Paul-Travelers merger and the UnumProvident settlement, all of which have their roots in this region but grew to...
Jury Backs $2.3 Million Award to Terminated Independent Agent; Nationwide to Challenge Verdict
Dec 17 2004 // An eight person jury in the United States District Court in Connecticut awarded $2.3 million in compensatory damages to an independent insurance agent in a decision expected to have serious ramifications on the...
Cigna to Repay State for Dental Plan Commissions
Dec 8 2004 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has reached a settlement with Cigna HealthCare regarding repayment of commissions paid in error in connection with the State of Connecticut Employee and Retiree Dental...
Keeping Up with Insurance Brokerage Investigations
Dec 6 2004 // Recent Key Developments in Ongoing Probes of Marsh, Other Brokers and Insurers Marsh ‘Hopeful’ of Quick Settlement Marsh & McLennan has been in constant contact and cooperation with New York Attorney Eliot...
Maine, N.H., Vt. Rules May Spur Attorney Competition
Dec 3 2004 // For Conn. Agents, Concern Over Privacy in Disclosure The ongoing investigation of brokerage commissions and alleged bid-rigging that started in New York is being felt everywhere, nowhere more so than neighboring...
For Conn. Agents, Concern Over Privacy in Disclosure
Dec 3 2004 // The ongoing investigation of brokerage commissions and alleged bid-rigging that started in New York is being felt everywhere, nowhere more so than neighboring Connecticut. Despite an agenda that ranged from identity theft...
Conn. Chief Hears No Complaints of Rigged Bids; Defends Role in Balancing Industry, Consumer Needs
Nov 30 2004 // Despite charges of bid-rigging and conflicts of interest against the insurance industry, Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell said she has not found corruption in Connecticut. Cogswell said she isn’t...
Conn. Accused of Laxity in Bail Bonds Oversight
Nov 28 2004 // A whistle-blower complaint has accused the Connecticut Department of Insurance of failing to adequately investigate and sanction bondsmen who illegally provide discounted bail bonds. State auditor Kevin P. Johnston said he...
Conn. AG Urges Tougher State Action, Offers Own Insurance Reforms in Testimony Before Senate Panel
Nov 16 2004 // Despite charging that too many state insurance regulators have become “industry captives,” Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is rejecting calls for federal intervention in the regulation of...
Conn. Approves Comp Rate Changes – Correction
Nov 11 2004 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved a slight decrease of 0.3 percent in workers’ compensation loss costs beginning Jan. 1, 2005. The department has also rejected a proposed hike in assigned risk rates,...
Conn. Road Redesign Reduces Accidents, Saves Lives
Nov 9 2004 // A redesigned Merritt Parkway in Connecticut is safer to drive these days. Crashes and fatalities along a stretch through Greenwich have dropped over the past five years, according to the state Department of Transportation....
‘Wall Street’ Insurance Broker Scandal Hurting ‘Main Street’ Agents, Conn. Big ‘I’ Leader Fears
Nov 5 2004 // “We are Main Street agents. This problem was created on Wall Street.” A Connecticut independent agent leader hopes the reality behind those words will help protect independent agents from being grouped with...
Frankel Conspirator Sentenced in Connecticut
Nov 3 2004 // Kevin O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced recently that M. Thurston Little, 71, of Corinth, Mississippi, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Burns in New...
Conn. AG Subpoenas Allstate
Oct 28 2004 // The Allstate Corp. on Thursday confirmed that it received interrogatories and a subpoena from the office of the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut seeking information relevant to that office’s investigation...
Conn. AG Subpoenas U.S.I. Holdings Corp.
Oct 27 2004 // U.S.I. Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: USIH) on Wednesday announced that the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut has subpoenaed the company, requesting documents and seeking information as part of an...
Conn. AG Issues Subpoena to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Requesting Information
Oct 26 2004 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. on Tuesday received a subpoena from the Connecticut Attorney General requesting information concerning possible violations by the company of the Connecticut antitrust laws in connection with...
PCI: Connecticut Needs to Make Common Sense Reforms to Medical Liability System
Oct 5 2004 // Connecticut urgently needs to make common-sense reforms to its medical liability system in order to preserve patients’ legal rights while protecting affordable patient care and enhancing the stability of the...
Conn. Workers’ Comp Writers File for Decrease
Sep 29 2004 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Oct. 21 to consider two workers’compensation filings submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) on...
Conn. to Take Second Look at Insurer’s 90% Med-Mal Increase
Sep 20 2004 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan Cogswell has agreed to hire an independent actuary to review a controversial 89.6 percent medical malpractice rate filing that it previously approved in April. The rate hike for GE...
Conn. OBGYNs Drop Malpractice Levy
Sep 16 2004 // Women’s Health Connecticut, the state’s largest group of obstetrician-gynecologists, has dropped plans to add a surcharge to offset the costs of malpractice insurance premiums. In May, the group had announced...
