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$1.5M Yacht Likely a Total Loss After Connecticut Barge Strike

Sep 21 2018 // Maritime officials say a 50-foot, custom-built yacht worth $1.5 million is likely a total loss after it was struck by a barge laden with sand and gravel in a Connecticut harbor.Capt. Eric Knott, Stamford’s...

Court Rules for Archdiocese in Connecticut in Priest Abuse Insurance Case

Sep 21 2018 // A federal appeals court says an insurance company must reimburse the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford nearly $1 million for payments the archdiocese made to settle sexual misconduct cases involving priests and...

Connecticut’s Business Risk Partners Appoints Lacey as Principal Underwriter

Sep 7 2018 // Business Risk Partners (BRP), a Windsor, Conn.-based specialty insurance program administrator, has appointed Brad Lacey as a principal underwriter focused on management and professional liability products.Simultaneously,...

Lawsuit Against Connecticut Bar Seeks More Than $50K in Damages After Fatal Crash

Aug 29 2018 // Relatives of a Waterbury, Conn., man who died in a car crash that also killed the wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman has filed a lawsuit against a Connecticut restaurant.A lawyer for the restaurant declined...

Ex-Employee Sues Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney Over Jet Engines

Aug 23 2018 // A former engineer for jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney has filed a federal false claims lawsuit alleging the company knowingly sold “flawed” engines to the U.S. Air Force, which resulted in the likelihood...

Disaster Declaration Approved for Connecticut’s Tornado Recovery

Aug 22 2018 // U.S. President Donald Trump has approved a disaster declaration for Connecticut following severe storms that included four tornadoes.The tornadoes touched down in six towns in Connecticut during the May 15 storms....

Candidate Seeks to File Brief in Connecticut Crumbling Foundations Case

Aug 6 2018 // A Democratic candidate for state Attorney General is seeking permission to become involved in a court case involving eastern Connecticut homeowners whose foundations are crumbling.Wethersfield state Sen. Paul Doyle filed a...

PowerGuard Specialty Insurance Services Hires Cantafi in Connecticut

Aug 6 2018 // PowerGuard Specialty Insurance Services, a renewable energy program manager based in the U.S., has hired warranty and service agreement specialist Dan Cantafi as the firm’s senior vice president of sales and...

Crash at Connecticut Auto Auction Leaves Six Injured

Aug 3 2018 // A man driving a car at a Connecticut auto auction suffered a medical emergency, struck four pedestrians and crashed into another vehicle on Wednesday, sending six people to area hospitals, police said.The driver of the...

Worker Suffers Severe Electrical Burns on the Job in Connecticut

Aug 3 2018 // Fire officials say a worker making repairs to a building in Connecticut has suffered severe electrical burns.Fire Chief Paul Januszewski tells the New Haven Register the man was upgrading the North Haven building’s...

Connecticut’s CMIC Hires Cronin as Director of Underwriting

Jul 17 2018 // CMIC, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based, member-owned medical professional liability insurance company, has hired Garrett P. Cronin to the CMIC Group team as the director of underwriting.Prior to joining CMIC, Cronin worked for...

Connecticut College Savings Plan Accounts Breached, $1.4M Taken

Jun 29 2018 // State Treasurer Denise Nappier announced Wednesday that 21 Connecticut Higher Education Trust college savings accounts were recently breached, resulting in more than $1.4 million in unauthorized withdrawals.Nappier said...

Connecticut’s Paragon Insurance Holdings Hires Fuller

Jun 21 2018 // Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC, a national, multi-line specialty managing general agency (MGA) based in Avon, Conn., has hired Tonya Fuller as vice president of its Winery and Brewery division. Additionally, Ashley...

FEMA Assessing Tornado Damage in Connecticut

Jun 14 2018 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials on Monday began assessing damage from a tornado and a macroburst that hit Connecticut during severe storms last month, a process that could lead to federal aid.Officials...

Connecticut’s Shoreline Financial Group Joins Satellite Agency Network Group

Jun 7 2018 // Shoreline Financial Group, a financial services group based in Clinton, Conn., has joined Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., a Hampton, N.H.-based alliance of independent insurance agencies in the...

EPIC Holdings Inc. Hires Walter as Chief Talent Officer in Connecticut

Jun 5 2018 // EPIC Holdings Inc., the parent company of EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, has added human capital professional Janine Walter as chief talent officer and a member of the EPIC Executive Committee.EPIC is a retail...

Investor Group Acquires Connecticut’s Talcott Resolution from The Hartford

Jun 1 2018 // Talcott Resolution, The Hartford’s run-off life and annuity businesses, has been acquired by an investor group led by Cornell Capital LLC, Atlas Merchant Capital LLC, TRB Advisors LP, Global Atlantic Financial Group,...

How to Succeed in Today’s Small Business Insurance Market

May 30 2018 // The small business market is big. The U.S. small commercial market represents about one-third of the total commercial lines market and generates between $99 billion and $103 billion in direct written premium, according to...

Mass., Conn. Senators Seek Answers About Safety Protocols for Self-Driving Cars

May 29 2018 // U.S. Senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal are pressing automakers and technology companies that are developing self-driving cars about their safety protocols for test-driving the vehicles. Federal investigators...

G.M. Abodeely Insurance Agency Merges with Connecticut’s Smith Brothers Insurance

May 15 2018 // G.M. Abodeely Insurance Agency has merged its business with Smith Brothers Insurance of Glastonbury, Conn.This combination allows the Abodeely Agency to maintain its presence as an independent local agent and leverage the...