All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2011 // Insurance broker William Gallagher Associates Inc. will pay $1.7 million as a settlement with Connecticut regulators over allegations that it overcharged a client. The settlement was announced late last month. State...
Nov 19 2011 // The president and chief operating officer of Connecticut Light & Power has resigned as the company continues to come under fire for its handling of power outages after last month’s snowstorm.Northeast Utilities...
Nov 16 2011 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi told a legislative committee that Connecticut saw 58,002 claims for Hurricane Irene. Of those claims, 84.8 percent have been closed (88 percent for homeowners’...
Nov 15 2011 // Local agencies in the Northeastern region say they saw cases of business interruption claims following the unusual, freak snowstorm that swept through the area last month.Many claims came from local restaurants and diners...
Nov 14 2011 // Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is asking President Barack Obama to issue a major disaster declaration for Connecticut following last month’s freak October snow storm that left hundreds of thousands without power for...
Nov 14 2011 // State lawmakers want to learn more about how the insurance industry responded to the two recent storms to hit Connecticut — the remnants of Hurricane Irene and the October nor’easter. The legislature’s...
Nov 7 2011 // Some of the thousands of Connecticut residents still in the dark Monday may not have power restored until mid-week, more than 10 days after a monster snowstorm knocked out electricity to millions of people in the...
Nov 7 2011 // U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) recently called on State Farm to drop its hurricane deductible for Connecticut residences whose homes were damaged by Tropical Storm Irene. But State Farm shows no sign of giving in...
Oct 31 2011 // A freak October snowstorm knocked out power Sunday to more than 3.1 million homes and businesses across the U.S. Northeast, with close to two feet (60 centimeters) of snow falling in some areas over the weekend.The storm...
Oct 31 2011 // Insurance broker William Gallagher Associates Inc. will pay $1.7 million as a settlement with Connecticut regulators over allegations that it overcharged a client.The state regulators accused the Massachusetts-based broker...
Oct 17 2011 // More than $5,089,356.61 in federal assistance to date has been approved to help Connecticut residents cope with their Tropical Storm Irene-related disaster expenses that are not covered by insurance. The federal assistance...
Oct 14 2011 // State Farm Insurance says U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal’s request that the company drop Irene-related hurricane deductibles in Connecticut would actually be unfair to policyholders and introduce all sorts of...
Oct 14 2011 // Connecticut insurance regulators are working on revising hurricane deductible rules in the wake of tropical storm Irene.The insurance department spokesperson told Insurance Journal that the new rules under consideration...
Oct 13 2011 // U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called on State Farm Insurance to drop its hurricane deductible for Connecticut residences whose homes were damaged by Tropical Storm Irene.Blumenthal was joined at his Hartford...
Oct 6 2011 // More than $5,089,356.61 in federal assistance to date has been approved to help Connecticut residents cope with their Tropical Storm Irene-related disaster expenses that are not covered by insurance.The federal assistance...
Sep 29 2011 // A national safety group is urging states and regulators to adopt new standards that would ban a pipe-cleaning practice blamed for a 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion that killed six workers.The National Fire...
Sep 19 2011 // New York and New Jersey regulators said recently that hurricane deductibles should not apply on homeowners’ insurance policies for Irene damages in their states. That’s because Irene was downgraded and...
Sep 14 2011 // The Connecticut Supreme Court will take up a fraud lawsuit by ex-NFL player and investment firm founder Bob Simms against his ex-wife’s lawyers, brushing aside a lower court decision barring the claim.Simms, a...
Sep 7 2011 // Connecticut drivers will have some extra time to renew their licenses and registrations as they cope with delays, power outages and storm damage from Tropical Storm Irene. The state Department of Motor Vehicles is...
Sep 7 2011 // New York and New Jersey regulators said recently that hurricane deductibles should not apply on homeowners’ insurance policies for Irene damages in their states. That’s because Irene was downgraded and...