All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2015 // The Connecticut attorney general’s office says Anthem Inc. customers are increasingly reporting fraudulent tax returns being filed using their names and other personal information.But spokesman Robert Blanchard said...
Apr 15 2015 // Timothy C. Woodhull EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm based in San Francisco, hired Timothy C. Woodhull as a principal. Woodhull...
Apr 15 2015 // Katharine L. Wade The Connecticut state Senate on Tuesday officially confirmed Katharine L. Wade as Connecticut’s new insurance commissioner. Wade was nominated by Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy on March 20 to...
Apr 10 2015 // Connecticut’s Medicare-based fee schedule for workers’ compensation involving hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services went into effect April 1.Previously, there...
Apr 10 2015 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade announced that insurance adjusters and appraisers can now renew their Connecticut licenses online using the department’s paperless system operated through the...
Apr 6 2015 // The families of nine people killed in the Newtown elementary school shooting in Connecticut have filed lawsuits against the estate of the gunman’s mother.The lawsuits contend Nancy Lanza failed to properly secure her...
Apr 1 2015 // Joyce Walker XS Brokers, a wholesale agency based in Quincy, Massachusetts, has hired Joyce Walker as marketing representative. Walker will have responsibility for business and relationship development with independent...
Mar 23 2015 // Connecticut state lawmakers are considering legislation that would presume firefighters who have cancer most likely got it from their jobs, easing claims for insurance or workers’ compensation.The science supports...
Mar 23 2015 // Connecticut’s General Assembly is revisiting whether to grant workers’ compensation coverage for certain first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, such as those who responded to the mass...
Mar 20 2015 // Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is nominating Katharine L. Wade to serve as commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department.Wade succeeds Thomas B. Leonardi who stepped down from the post...
Mar 16 2015 // The Connecticut General Assembly is revisiting whether to grant workers’ compensation coverage for certain first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, such as those who responded to the mass...
Mar 12 2015 // Do you prefer a fixed price or a la carte? How about paperless or paper? Are you a cat person or a dog person? Do you prefer “old school” or “new school”?These are some of the optional questions for...
Mar 9 2015 // Some of Connecticut’s insurers would pick up the tab for breast and cervical cancer detection, AIDS services and venereal disease control under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed two-year, approximately $40...
Mar 9 2015 // Connecticut state lawmakers are considering legislation that would presume firefighters who have cancer most likely got it from their jobs, easing claims for insurance or workers’ compensation.The science supports...
Mar 4 2015 // Connecticut is the latest state to grapple with how to regulate Uber and other ride-hailing services being embraced by the public but angering the long-established taxi and livery industry.Taxi and livery drivers say...
Feb 24 2015 // U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a recently aired CNN report’s allegation that auto insurers may be pressuring consumers to repair their vehicles at...
Feb 20 2015 // Bruce Simmons Business Risk Partners, a program administrator in specialty insurance, has hired Bruce Simmons as errors and omissions (E&O) manager for miscellaneous professional liability (MPL) and cyber liability...
Feb 11 2015 // Connecticut lawmakers are considering whether to make it illegal for pets to ride in a vehicle while sitting on the driver’s lap.Under a bill before the Connecticut General Assembly’s Transportation Committee,...
Feb 11 2015 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a vocal proponent of state-based insurance regulation in the U.S., sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, urging them not to...
Feb 10 2015 // Connecticut’s tax commissioner is urging taxpayers expecting federal or state income tax refunds who may be affected by the Anthem data breach to file their taxes quickly.Kevin Sullivan, head of the Department of...