All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired The Watts Group LLC of West Hartford, Conn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 2003 by Mike Watts, The Watts Group is a surety bond and property &...
Dec 8 2020 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Chelsea Insurance Agency LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Norwich, Conn., Chelsea Insurance Agency is a...
Dec 3 2020 // Capco, a global management and technology consultancy, has acquired NEOS LLC, a Hartford, Conn.-based consultancy focused on helping insurance organizations drive transformational change. The transaction will complement...
Dec 1 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Flanagan Associates LLC of North Haven, Conn., on November 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established more than 30 years ago, Flanagan Associates has...
Nov 30 2020 // Jury duty notices have set Nicholas Philbrook’s home on edge with worries about him contracting the coronavirus and passing it on to his father-in-law, a cancer survivor with diabetes in his mid-70s who is at higher...
Nov 23 2020 // Five former or current officials of Fairfield, Connecticut, are among several people who have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping of hazardous materials next to the town’s public works garage and...
Nov 18 2020 // Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., a Hampton, N.H.-based alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, has announced that Summit Financial Group Inc. of Milford, Conn., has become a member of the...
Nov 17 2020 // An apparent steam explosion in a maintenance building at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut killed two people Friday, and a third person is missing, officials said.“We received a report this morning that an...
Nov 17 2020 // TigerRisk Partners has appointed Bill O’Keefe as its head of Strategy.In this new role, O’Keefe will identify growth initiatives, advise the company’s leadership and consult with clients to drive results....
Nov 5 2020 // A worker in Connecticut suffered serious injuries Monday when he fell about 50 feet from a tree and landed on a small shed, police said. The man was up in the tree in Mystic preparing it for removal when it snapped below...
Nov 2 2020 // “Retaliation takes all different forms. … Losing your job, losing shifts, losing pay — or if you’ve already lost your job, you can’t find another job in that industry.”— Sharyn...
Oct 26 2020 // Connecticut’s attorney general asked regulators Wednesday to order reimbursements for utility customers who lost food and medicine during August’s dayslong power outage in the wake of Tropical Storm...
Oct 21 2020 // Omaha National, a workers compensation insurance provider serving small and midsize employers, has expanded its coverage into Connecticut and Georgia.Connecticut and Georgia will be the 11th and 12th states in which Omaha...
Oct 21 2020 // The U.S. Department of Labor has executed a region wide corporate settlement agreement with Target Corp. to correct exit access and storage hazards and enhance worker safety at about 200 of the retailer’s stores in...
Sep 29 2020 // A man charged with wounding his boss and another employee in a shooting at a Connecticut trucking company told police his handgun fired by accident and he only intended to scare his manager, according to an arrest warrant...
Sep 28 2020 // A truck driver accused of shooting his boss and wounding another person outside a Connecticut industrial building was charged Wednesday with assault and other crimes after being brought back from Massachusetts, where...
Sep 24 2020 // A shooter opened fire and wounded two people outside a Connecticut business Tuesday and was taken into custody at gunpoint on a highway in Massachusetts, police said. Both victims were treated at a hospital and...
Sep 23 2020 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Connecticut-based Ganim Group Inc. (Ganim Benefits) from Ganim Financial Inc. The transaction became effective on September 1, 2020.The Ganim Benefits team, including Valerie Koch,...
Sep 21 2020 // Connecticut Insurance Department Commissioner Andrew N. Mais has named Fenhua Liu as the new director of the department’s Captive Insurance Division.Liu has more than 25 years of global experience in insurance and...
Sep 15 2020 // LL Global Inc., the Windsor, Conn.-based, non-profit parent organization for trade associations LIMRA and LOMA, has hired John Carroll to lead its National Accounts team. He will report to Sean O’Donnell, senior vice...