All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 27 2011 // Applying for insurance licenses in Connecticut is about to become a paperless experience.Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi announced that beginning Aug. 1, 2011, applications for licensing will be...
Jun 23 2011 // A state appeals court in Connecticut has ruled that ex-NFL player and investment firm founder Bob Simms can’t sue his ex-wife’s lawyers for fraud during a long-running divorce and alimony case, saying...
Jun 6 2011 // A jury has awarded a Connecticut couple $58 million after their baby was born with severe injuries in what the couple’s attorneys called the largest medical malpractice verdict in state history.The jury in Waterbury...
May 27 2011 // A jury awarded a Connecticut couple $58 million after their baby was born with severe injuries in what the couple’s attorneys called the largest medical malpractice verdict in state history.The jury in Waterbury...
May 20 2011 // The Connecticut House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill that limits the liability of cities and towns that make certain types of public lands available for recreational purposes.House members on Tuesday...
May 19 2011 // The father of a Montville, Connecticut high school sophomore who killed himself has filed a notice that he intends to sue the town and the school district for negligence, alleging his son was driven to suicide by...
May 12 2011 // A Connecticut hospital has settled 32 lawsuits involving a now-dead doctor suspected of molesting scores of children over three decades through a bogus human growth study.Monday’s settlement came in the middle of...
Apr 15 2011 // A swimming pool company president charged in a Connecticut boy’s 2007 drowning pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, for not installing a state-mandated safety device.David Lionetti had been...
Apr 14 2011 // U.S. authorities claimed one of their biggest victories against cyber crime as they shut down a ring they said used malicious software to take control of more than 2 million PCs around the world, and may have led to theft...
Apr 11 2011 // Connecticut officials say they are investigating a charter bus company that allegedly transported 250 students to Washington, D.C., on unregistered and uninsured buses.The state Department of Motor Vehicles says its...
Apr 5 2011 // With his Connecticut home-building business down more than 90 percent, the last thing Robert C. Fusari Sr. says he needs is a new rule telling him to spend thousands of dollars to install home sprinkler systems that...
Apr 4 2011 // A proposal to protect Connecticut cities and towns from lawsuits over injuries on lands owned by municipal authorities has passed a key legislative committee. The Planning and Development Committee recently to approved a...
Mar 30 2011 // Police in Connecticut are bolstering patrols this week to look for distracted drivers as part of a federal pilot program.Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and police officials announced the fourth and final enforcement wave of the...
Mar 28 2011 // A proposal to protect Connecticut cities and towns from lawsuits over injuries on lands owned by municipal authorities has passed a key legislative committee. The Planning and Development Committee voted 19-1 Friday to...
Mar 22 2011 // The fiancée of a victim of last August’s shooting rampage at a beer distributorship in Manchester, Connecticut is putting the state’s workers’ compensation benefits law to the test.Stephanie Laurin was...
Mar 11 2011 // James Berliner has been elected president of the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut. He is president of Berliner-Gelfand & Co. Inc., in Bridgeport. Other newly elected officers are Vice President Brian...
Mar 7 2011 // Jennifer McPhillips has been promoted to senior director of federal government affairs for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) and will serve as one of the...