All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 25 2020 // As insurers continue to monitor the spread and impact of COVID-19, insurance regulators across the East region of the U.S. are issuing guidance on how the industry can respond.“There is almost no aspect of the...
Mar 9 2020 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. has elected Gerard Prast of Wallingford, Conn., as president at the association’s Annual Convention, held March 5-6 at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket,...
Mar 5 2020 // A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $21.7 million verdict against a Connecticut rabbi accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a teenage boy in the early 2000s.A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...
Mar 2 2020 // A Connecticut man pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing $240,000 from the nonprofit he worked for as well as some of the organization’s developmentally disabled clients, federal prosecutors said.Michael Verzella, of...
Feb 13 2020 // Firearm purchaser licensing laws that require an in-person application or fingerprinting are associated with an estimated 56 percent fewer fatal mass shootings in states that have them, according to a new study by...
Feb 7 2020 // The number work-related deaths in Connecticut in 2018 was the highest it’s been since 2010, according to the state Department of Labor.The agency said 48 people lost their lives to work-related injuries in 2018, the...
Feb 6 2020 // A former student at a private boarding school for girls in Connecticut says in a federal lawsuit that the school was negligent for allowing a former faculty member to sexually abuse her.The suit filed Tuesday alleges the...
Jan 31 2020 // The personal information and Social Security numbers of about 1,100 users of Connecticut’s state health insurance marketplace might have been compromised after a security breach last fall, officials said.Access...
Jan 9 2020 // CMIC Group, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based, member-owned medical professional liability insurance company, has promoted Michelle M. Ursini, previously the director of Business Development & Marketing, to the role of vice...
Jan 2 2020 // A new year is a time of reflection for some, and last year, the city of Boston began 2019 by reflecting on an important piece of the city’s history: the 100-year anniversary of The Great Molasses Flood.The flood,...
Dec 30 2019 // A federal prison halfway house will not be built in Connecticut after a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit reached a $625,000 settlement in an ongoing lawsuit with the city of Norwalk.The city will pay $275,000 of the settlement...
Dec 27 2019 // A Connecticut city will pay $5 million to the family of a teenage girl stabbed to death at her high school to settle a lawsuit alleging the district did not properly respond to threats posed by the killer, attorneys for...
Dec 16 2019 // The U.S. auto safety agency said on Friday it will investigate a 12th Tesla crash that may be tied to the vehicle’s advanced Autopilot driver assistance system after a Tesla Model 3 rear-ended a parked police car in...
Dec 13 2019 // Family members of nine children and educators killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have received a September 2021 trial date in their landmark lawsuit against Remington Arms Co. over its marketing of...
Dec 10 2019 // Another Tesla Inc. vehicle operating on the carmaker’s driver-assistance system branded as Autopilot has crashed into a parked emergency vehicle, eliciting fresh warnings about the shortcomings of automated...
Dec 9 2019 // The driver of a Tesla says the car was on autopilot when it struck a police cruiser and a disabled vehicle on Saturday in Connecticut, according to State Police.State Police said troopers responded to Interstate 95...
Dec 6 2019 // Saxe Doernberger & Vita P.C. (SDV) has hired Associate Brian J. Clifford to its Northeast office. Clifford has almost a decade of experience in litigation, including insurance coverage, from depositions and discovery...
Dec 5 2019 // A Connecticut jury has awarded more than $23 million in damages to an autistic teenager who suffered severe head injuries when his school bus crashed into a tree. Gabriel Goncalves, of Wolcott, was a sixth-grader at the...
Nov 22 2019 // Investigations by the Connecticut Department of Labor’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division into complaints of workers being improperly employed at a large poultry plant in Bozrah has led to fines of more than...
Nov 21 2019 // A new report says Connecticut has had the most metal theft insurance claims in the country.The National Insurance Crime Bureau issued a report recently that found that Connecticut had the most metal theft insurance claims...