Latest Connecticut Headlines

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Hospitals, Clinics in Several States Begin Recovery After Cyberattacks

Aug 7 2023 // Hospitals and clinics in several states on Friday began the time-consuming process of recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted their computer systems, forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be...

Fed Appeals Court Upholds CT Law That Ended Religious Vaccine Exemption

Aug 7 2023 // A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities.The...

Connecticut Agent’s Failure to Disclose Dog Comes Back to Bite Homeowner

Aug 7 2023 // A Connecticut homeowner who is being sued by a woman who alleges his dog bit her in the face is not entitled to insurance coverage because his home insurance application, which was completed by his insurance agent,...

Connecticut High Court Denies Immunity for First Responder Causing Car Accident

Aug 2 2023 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has overturned a trial court and ruled that municipalities and government agencies are not entitled to qualified immunity for negligent operation of emergency vehicles.In a case involving a...

Connecticut Chief Expects Further Federal Probes Into False Traffic Stop Data

Jul 28 2023 // Connecticut`s public safety commissioner on Wednesday told state lawmakers to expect a federal investigation into a recent audit`s findings, which showed hundreds of state troopers submitted false information from 2014 to...

Connecticut Seeks Agriculture Disaster Declaration Due To Severe Flooding of Farms

Jul 25 2023 // Governor Ned Lamont has submitted a request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a federal agriculture disaster declaration for all eight counties in Connecticut due to the significant damage that occurred to farms...

Connecticut Man Wrongly Convicted in 1984 Shooting of Baby Sues New Haven and Police

Jul 21 2023 // A Connecticut man who was exonerated after serving 28 years in prison for killing a baby in 1994 has filed a lawsuit against the city of New Haven and six now-former police officers involved in his arrest.Adam Carmon, 51,...

Heavy Rains Swamp Northeast Again; Floods Claims 5 Lives; Others, Including 2 Children, Missing

Jul 17 2023 // Heavy rains pounded an already saturated Northeast on Sunday for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, cancelled airline flights and power outages. In Pennsylvania, a sudden flash flood late...

Connecticut Sues Nursing School That Closed Abruptly, Leaving Students in Lurch

Jul 17 2023 // Connecticut`s attorney general has sued a for-profit nursing school and its owner, alleging they left hundreds of students in the lurch when the school abruptly closed its three campuses in the state in February while...

Connecticut High Court Nixes Workers’ Comp for Firefighter With Heart Condition

Jul 17 2023 // A firefighter must be shown to have worked 20 or more hours a week to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under state law, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in reversing an appeals court and state...

Vermont Residents, Businesses Turn to Recovery From Flooding Amid Mud, Debris

Jul 13 2023 // Floodwaters receded in Vermont cities and towns pummeled by a storm that delivered two months of rain in two days, allowing officials to focus on recovering from a disaster that trapped residents in homes, closed roadways...

Rain Eases After Flooding Vermont, Other Northeast States But More Expected

Jul 12 2023 // A storm that left up to two months` worth of rain in Vermont and saturated other parts of the Northeast was moving out Tuesday, but more flooding was expected after already cutting off access to some communities, including...

Agent’s Failure to Disclose Dog Comes Back to Bite Homeowner

Jul 12 2023 // A Connecticut homeowner who is being sued by a woman who alleges his dog bit her in the face is not entitled to insurance coverage because his home insurance application, which was completed by his insurance agent,...

Audit Finds Connecticut State Police Falsified Traffic Stop Data

Jul 3 2023 // Hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021, skewing reports on the race and ethnicity of pulled-over motorists, according to an audit released...

Setting Range for Emotional Damage Awards Is Not Its Job, Says Connecticut High Court

Jun 28 2023 // It is up to the Connecticut legislature, not courts, to set any minimum or maximum controls on damages for emotional stress claims, the Connecticut Supreme Court held in a ruling in which it refused to second-guess a...

Connecticut Updates Captive Insurance Law

Jun 27 2023 // Connecticut is updating its captive insurance law to provide more flexibility for established captive cells and allow captives to accept and transfer risk using parametrics. The legislation also provides tax benefits for...

Connecticut High Court Nixes Workers’ Comp for Firefighter With Heart Condition

Jun 26 2023 // A firefighter must be shown to have worked 20 or more hours a week to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under state law, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled in reversing an appeals court and state...

Yale Student Can Be Sued for Defamation for Reporting Rape, Court Says

Jun 26 2023 // In a decision scrutinizing how colleges investigate sexual assault allegations, Connecticut’s highest court ruled Friday that a former Yale student is not immune from a defamation lawsuit by a fellow student who was...

Travelers Championship With Elevated Status, $20M Purse Opens With McIlroy Hole-in-One

Jun 23 2023 // Nathan Grube, the tournament director of the Travelers Championship, used to worry about the years when the U.S. Open took place on the West Coast.Many of the world’s top golfers would make a decision to take a break...

Commuter Train Collision with Truck in Connecticut Seriously Injures Pickup Driver

Jun 16 2023 // A commuter train collided with a pickup truck in Connecticut on Wednesday, injuring the driver and heavily damaging the vehicle, authorities said.The crash happened just before 11:30 a.m. at a Metro-North Railroad street...