All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 28 2019 // A Connecticut woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $400,000 from her employer.Federal prosecutors say 56-year-old Vicki Miller, of Colchester, pleaded guilty to wire fraud Friday in U.S. District Court in...
Aug 23 2019 // The Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency (CIRMA) has hired Ellen Dion as chief financial officer (CFO).Dion has property and casualty insurance industry expertise spanning more than 25 years and will oversee...
Aug 20 2019 // The veteran insurance consultant who has overseen the rollout of an assistance program for Connecticut homeowners with crumbling foundations says he’s stepping aside.Michael Maglaras, superintendent of the...
Aug 6 2019 // In a previous story about a wrongful death settlement, The Associated Press misidentified the company that employed a truck driver involved in a fatal accident. The driver worked for Food Haulers Inc., not Transervice...
Aug 6 2019 // GI Partners, a middle-market alternative asset manager, has completed the previously announced acquisition of Insurity Inc., a software platform for the property and casualty insurance industry.Headquartered in Hartford,...
Aug 6 2019 // A Connecticut Department of Developmental Services (DDS) employee was has been arrested and charged with fraudulently collecting more than $4,000 in workers’ compensation benefits.Elizabeth Torres, age 58, of...
Aug 2 2019 // The maker of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a court ruling that allowed families of the victims to sue the...
Aug 2 2019 // After worrying for years about the foundations crumbling beneath their houses, hundreds of suburban homeowners in a large swath of central Connecticut are getting help to salvage property that had been doomed by a bad...
Jul 29 2019 // A new interagency task force will soon begin work on a plan to minimize the impact of a group of potentially dangerous industrial compounds known as “forever chemicals” on Connecticut residents.The group of...
Jul 26 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has added to its employee benefits practice with the acquisition of Gerard B. Tracy Associates Inc.Based in Fairfield, Conn., Gerard...
Jul 23 2019 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais is urging homeowners to review their insurance policies before the upcoming tropical storm season.Peak hurricane season in Connecticut begins in mid-August and runs through...
Jul 15 2019 // Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C. (SDV) has hired associate Christine Baptiste-Perez to its SDV Northeast office. Before attending law school, Baptiste-Perez taught high school Spanish in Louisiana and worked in human...
Jul 15 2019 // A Connecticut state appeals court has rejected an appeal by the parents of two shooting victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre to hold the town of Newtown and its school district liable.While calling the case...
Jul 11 2019 // Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, has announced that Halpert Insurance & Financial Services of Windsor Locks, Conn., joined the network. Agency...
Jun 25 2019 // Federal legislation that sets aside $4 million in federal funds to study the effects of the mineral pyrrhotite on concrete aggregate has advanced in the U.S. Congress.Democratic U.S. Joe Courtney, whose eastern Connecticut...
Jun 19 2019 // The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the latest victory for victims’ relatives...
May 30 2019 // Roy E. Wright, CEO and president of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, wants Congress to consider financing resilience.The IBHS chief testified during a recent appearance before the House Ways and...
May 30 2019 // Connecticut lawmakers are working to provide additional assistance to homeowners impacted by the crumbling foundations problem. The House of Representatives last week advanced a bill to the Senate, by a vote of 131-7,...
May 17 2019 // Work has been completed on the first Connecticut home with a crumbling foundation, using funds from a captive insurance company created by the General Assembly in 2017.It took about six weeks to replace Kevin and Aisling...
May 15 2019 // A weekend fire at a Connecticut mosque is being investigated as arson.New Haven Fire Chief John Alston said Monday investigators found evidence showing the fire at the Diyanet Mosque was intentionally set and a criminal...