All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2014 // Catalina Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based consolidator in the non-life run-off sector, announced it has agreed to acquire SPARTA Insurance Holdings, a property/casualty underwriting company in Hartford, Conn.Following the...
Mar 24 2014 // Consumer Protection“Keeping the public well-informed is essential to our mission of consumer protection.” —Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi on his department’s recently launched...
Mar 21 2014 // Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has closed his investigation into how the state’s largest utility responded to a freak October snow storm in 2011 that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of...
Mar 19 2014 // Television’s Judge Judy filed a lawsuit last week against a Connecticut personal-injury lawyer, alleging that he used her image without authorization in advertisements that falsely suggested she had endorsed his...
Mar 19 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced its acquisition of L&R Benefits, LLC of Windsor, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.L&R Benefits provides employee benefit consultation, management...
Mar 13 2014 // The Newtown, Conn., Police officer who has not yet returned to work since the 2012 school massacre because of post-traumatic stress disorder urged Connecticut lawmakers on Tuesday to expand the state’s workers’...
Mar 6 2014 // Connecticut Transportation Commissioner James Redeker said on Feb.28 he’s willing to review whether it makes sense to add rust inhibitors to chemical road treatments used to clear ice and snow on state roads and...
Mar 3 2014 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has launched a statewide campaign aimed at Connecticut insurance policyholders to raise awareness of the many resources and easy-to-use services the agency offers.“Keeping the...
Mar 3 2014 // A Connecticut man who says he was injured on New York City’s Citi Bike has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the bike-share operator. Ronald Corwin, of Westport, Conn., says he flipped over the bike after his front...
Feb 27 2014 // Bell Associates, a Greenwich, Conn.-based employee benefits agency providing healthcare benefits services to medium- and large-sized companies, has expanded its senior-level staff with the recent hires of Richard Burns,...
Feb 24 2014 // In the first month of 2014, the PIA affiliates in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York conducted their second-annual Market Trends Survey and found that the heralded hard market may not be launching as...
Feb 24 2014 // Kemper Corp.Kemper Corp. is realigning its property/casualty business. This realignment will result in one property/casualty segment for financial reporting purposes, beginning with the first quarter 2014. The new Kemper...
Feb 24 2014 // Kevin KolendaKevin Kolenda, 56, a Connecticut businessman who has been reportedly defrauding golf tournaments and golfers for two decades, was sentenced in February in King County Superior Court in Washington.Judge Jean...
Feb 20 2014 // Some Connecticut lawmakers have resurrected a proposal from last year to expand the state’s workers’ compensation law to cover employees who’ve suffered an emotional or mental impairment after witnessing...
Feb 14 2014 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed legislation Tuesday clarifying that domesticated horses cannot be considered vicious, responding to a legal claim over a horse at a Milford farm in Connecticut that threatens a...
Feb 10 2014 // Connecticut officials have rejected $18 million in requests for the latest round of Superstorm Sandy aid from shoreline homeowners who want to use the emergency funding to elevate their homes to avoid future storm...
Feb 7 2014 // Kevin Kolenda, 56, a Connecticut businessman who has been reportedly defrauding golf tournaments and golfers for two decades, was sentenced Friday in King County Superior Court in Washington.Judge Jean Rietschel sentenced...
Feb 6 2014 // The state versus federal oversight discussion is a “binary debate” that is a relic of a bygone era, the director of the Federal Insurance Office told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing Tuesday.FIO Director...
Feb 3 2014 // Blackmoor General Agency of Horsham, Penn., has acquired the Pennsylvania branch of Connecticut Underwriters, an independent excess and surplus lines broker in Middletown, Conn., effective Feb. 1, 2014. The business and...
Feb 3 2014 // A private flood insurance provider has stepped into Connecticut’s market, the first time homeowners along the shoreline battered by Superstorm Sandy have an alternative to increasingly costly federal insurance.The...