All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 6 2011 // Connecticut is negotiating with several insurance companies to waive hurricane policy deductibles for coastal homeowners whose properties were damaged or destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said.Malloy...
Sep 5 2011 // The state insurance guaranty fund can be considered the last insurer on a workers’ compensation risk that has multiple insurers and be initially liable for paying benefits to the injured employee, with the right to...
Aug 31 2011 // Only about 30 percent of property losses inflicted by Tropical Storm Irene in Connecticut will be covered by insurance, according to an estimate by a consulting group that said less will be covered compared to previous...
Aug 26 2011 // Parts of the southeastern United States were already experiencing dangerous swells and rip tides Thursday as Hurricane Irene exited the Bahamas. On Friday afternoon, ahead of Hurricane Irene’s forecasted arrival in...
Aug 23 2011 // The state insurance guaranty fund can be considered the last insurer on a workers’ compensation risk that has multiple insurers and be initially liable for paying benefits to the injured employee, with the right to...
Aug 17 2011 // Adoption of European regulatory changes known as “Solvency II” as currently proposed could weaken U.S. consumer protections and stability of insurers, a state insurance commissioner has warned.Connecticut...
Aug 10 2011 // Federal workplace safety officials have ordered the Metro-North Commuter Railroad to pay $125,000 in punitive damages to a worker who was injured on the job in Connecticut. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Aug 1 2011 // The Connecticut Supreme Court said a teenager must pay restitution for damage at an unauthorized house party even though he did not personally cause any of the destruction. The court’s unanimous ruling determined the...
Jul 29 2011 // An investigation into employee theft at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Connecticut shows the organization lost more than $500,000. Executive Director Jeff Nichols told The Hartford Courant that an audit revealed...
Jul 27 2011 // Tens of thousands of businesses in Connecticut are receiving bills from the state to pay $30 million in interest this year for state borrowing from the federal government for unemployment insurance benefits.About 73,000...
Jul 26 2011 // State Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi announced the Connecticut Insurance Department (CID) helped consumers recover nearly $2.4 million in the first six months of 2011, with health insurance claims making up the...
Jul 22 2011 // A Bridgeport, Connecticut chiropractor Bridgeport has become the third health professional to plead guilty in an insurance scam involving auto accidents and personal injury claims.Thirty-year-old Jennifer Netter pleaded...
Jul 21 2011 // The family of a Trumbull High School student is suing the town and the Board of Education after being struck in the head by a tennis ball in gym class.Krisen Sileio’s lawyer told the Connecticut Post the teen...
Jul 21 2011 // Welcome to the magical mystery tour of Home State taxation and regulation under Nonadmitted Insurance and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 (NRRA). The NRRA went live at 12:01 a.m., July 21, 2011, in all time zones. You may...
Jul 19 2011 // The Connecticut Supreme Court says a teenager must pay restitution for damage at an unauthorized house party even though he did not personally cause any of the destruction. The court’s unanimous ruling determined the...
Jul 18 2011 // Wayne Paquette stood beside a mangled pile of metal, the ribs of one of his greenhouses. Beside him, only the two gable ends of the Quackin’ Grass Nursery structure remained.Paquette’s Brooklyn, Conn.,...
Jul 18 2011 // Changes in agent-licensing procedures mean New Yorkers can now print and renew their licenses online and Connecticut agents will now only be able to file licensing documentation electronically.In New York, agents, brokers...
Jul 5 2011 // Cash-strapped Connecticut has increased a number of fees and charges at its Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).Among the fees are an $8 increase — up to $72 — for renewing licenses, a $25 fee for failing to renew on...
Jun 29 2011 // A 60-year-old Army veteran won a $925,000 settlement with the Department of Veterans Affairs after he was blinded in one eye during a routine outpatient cataract operation, his attorney said this week.Jose Goncalves of...
Jun 28 2011 // Patricia Roth has joined XS Brokers Insurance Agency Inc., a Northeast excess and surplus lines wholesale brokerage and managing general agency firm based in Quincy, Mass. Roth has joined the firm’s senior management...