All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 30 2017 // A worker at a Schick razor factory in Connecticut has been hospitalized after her hand got caught in a machine.A production manager at the Milford, Conn., factory told WTNH-TV the worker was doing a routine job Thursday...
May 26 2017 // Smith Brothers, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based insurance broker, has added Chelsea Peruccio as an employee benefits advisor.Her responsibilities include new business development, account management and creating employee...
May 22 2017 // Regional officials are reminding state lawmakers it’s urgent this session to provide assistance to eastern and central Connecticut homeowners with crumbling foundations. Both the executive director of the Capitol...
May 15 2017 // Legislation creating rules for ridesharing services for the first time in Connecticut has cleared the House of Representatives.The bill passed Thursday on a 103-99 vote. It now moves to the Senate. Both Uber and Lyft,...
May 10 2017 // A woman who was severely burned by a propane heater at a Connecticut bible camp has been awarded $1.4 million in a negligence lawsuit. Nicole Andrew was visiting her boyfriend at the Mountain Lake Bible Camp in Warren,...
May 5 2017 // A Connecticut city on Tuesday announced that it has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of three girls who died in a Christmas morning house fire that also killed their grandparents.Terms of the settlement announced by...
Apr 21 2017 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has launched a new licensing web site, designed to improve customer service for the nearly 200,000 agents, brokers, adjusters and other licensees who conduct business with the...
Apr 19 2017 // Specialty underwriter and program administrator Business Risk Partners (BRP), headquartered in Windsor, Conn., has added two new members to its Professional Liability (E&O) and Operations team.Jennifer Stein was named...
Apr 4 2017 // Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC (Paragon), an Avon, Conn.-based multi-line specialty program manager, has added Justin Faust to the Paragon executive management team as Chief Financial Officer.“Justin will lead...
Apr 3 2017 // Connecticut state workers and retirees will not get part of a $94 million stock windfall received by the state in 2001 and then used to help fill a budget gap.The state Supreme Court on Friday rejected the workers’...
Mar 29 2017 // Brown Thayer Shedd Insurance Agency (BTS Darien) has hired Ryan P. Garrity as senior vice president of its Darien, Conn., location.In this role, Garrity joins BTS Darien President Edward D. “Tim” Brown in...
Mar 29 2017 // A lawsuit brought by victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre against the gunman’s employer and wife was withdrawn from federal court and filed in state court in South Florida on Monday.Attorneys for 61 Pulse...
Mar 20 2017 // The office manager of a Stamford, Conn., dental practice has pleaded guilty to using a retired dentist’s records to charge insurance companies almost $600,000 for work that was never performed.Elena Ilizarov pleaded...
Mar 10 2017 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. (PIACT) elected Kenneth A. Distel of Avon, Conn., as president at the association’s Annual Convention held in March at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket,...
Mar 3 2017 // A new report says overloaded train cars caused a freight train derailment in Connecticut last year.Nine cars containing construction and demolition debris derailed in New Britain in December. Several businesses were...
Feb 28 2017 // Six University of Connecticut students were charged Friday with alcohol-related offenses connected to the death of a student who was run over by a fire department vehicle after leaving a party last fall.The students had...
Feb 16 2017 // A Haitian man has admitted in federal court he was involved in a scheme to stage dozens of car crashes in Connecticut and collected up to $30,000 per wreck by submitting bogus insurance claims. Jacques Fleurijeune, also...
Feb 16 2017 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, an independent insurance agency collaboration based in Wellesley, Mass., has announced its acquisition of the Peter M. Bakker Agency Inc. of Avon, Conn.The acquisition is set to...
Feb 3 2017 // Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy says his two-year state budget proposal will reduce taxes for Connecticut’s insurance industry.The Democrat said Monday he wants to lower the tax rate that insurers pay on...
Jan 31 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property, casualty brokerage and employee benefits consultant headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., has hired Christopher J. Giuditta as a vice president.Giuditta will...