All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 3 2017 // An office building in Norwich that houses seven businesses has been destroyed by a fire.The Norwich Bulletin reports that fire officials say the fire started around 3:30 a.m. Saturday on West Main Street. The East Great...
Dec 28 2016 // New Haven, Conn., fire officials say a toy hoverboard appears to be the cause of a Christmas Day apartment fire that displaced four people and sent one to the hospital.Battalion Chief Ben Vargas tells the New Haven...
Dec 22 2016 // The R Street Institute, a nonprofit public policy research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., has found that Vermont has the best insurance regulatory environment in the U.S. for the third straight year in its...
Nov 21 2016 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has issued a online pay portal to process financial transactions for licensees that conduct business daily within the department, Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced.The...
Nov 16 2016 // The families of some of the 26 children and educators killed at a Connecticut elementary school in 2012 asked the state’s top court on Tuesday to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of their lawsuit against the...
Nov 10 2016 // Authorities say five boys have been arrested in connection with two fires in Norwich last month.Police say four 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old face charges that include second-degree arson and first-degree criminal...
Nov 9 2016 // Federal environmental regulators say they’re trying to contain and remove as much as 200,000 gallons of dangerous liquid chemicals and compounds found in storage tanks at two abandoned industrial properties in...
Nov 8 2016 // Business Risk Partners (BRP), a specialty underwriter and program administrator based in Windsor, Conn., hired Greg Bizzoso as an E&O product manager and team leader for miscellaneous professional liability (MPL) and...
Nov 1 2016 // Connecticut Insurance Department Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced that the department has approved a rate filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) that decreases workers’ compensation...
Oct 28 2016 // Police and fire investigators say a string of fires in Norwich, Conn., recently appear to be arson and are looking for the person or people responsible.The latest blaze occurred Monday night at the former YMCA building on...
Oct 24 2016 // The health insurer Cigna has agreed to end a policy that required physicians to fill out extra paperwork before they could give patients a drug used to treat opioid addiction.The move announced Friday comes after New York...
Oct 19 2016 // A Connecticut-based Native American tribe is suing the state for at least $613 million in damages for land it says was taken from the tribal reservation more than a century ago.The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation said in the...
Oct 17 2016 // A Connecticut judge threw out a lawsuit by families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, a major victory for the gun industry and in particular Remington Arms Co., maker of the assault weapon used in the...
Oct 14 2016 // CMIC, an A- (A.M. Best) rated company and member-owned medical professional liability insurance provider, announced that the overall rate indication for Connecticut and Massachusetts policyholders will remain unchanged for...
Oct 14 2016 // JLT Re (North America) Inc. (JLT Re), a global provider of reinsurance broking and consultancy, has appointed John Speckman as senior vice president in Stamford, Conn. In this role, Speckman will be part of the...
Sep 20 2016 // XS Brokers, a Quincy, Mass., headquartered independent insurance brokerage, has hired Jason Kent as a broker in the firm’s Connecticut office.His hiring comes as the firm has seen continued growth in its Connecticut,...
Sep 19 2016 // With the growth of agritourism and more people visiting local farms, Connecticut officials are joining other states in educating farmers about how to mitigate health risks for their new visitors.Connecticut’s latest...
Sep 14 2016 // RiskMatch, a Greenwich, Conn., headquartered business intelligence and analytics firm that provides insurance portfolio management and placement support services to insurance brokers and insurers, has hired Michael Golden...
Sep 13 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) last week installed new officers who have begun serving their terms.Connecticut independent agent Spencer Houldin was inaugurated as the...
Sep 8 2016 // An insurance company has appealed an order by a federal judge in Connecticut to reimburse the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford $945,000 for payments church officials made to settle sexual misconduct cases involving...