All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2011 // Connecticut regulators say they recovered approximately $3.4 million last year for consumers who complained that their insurers mishandled their claims – and then handed out another $2.35 million in fines against...
Feb 7 2011 // For Northeastern farmers long used to coping with all sorts of cold-weather problems, this winter presents a new one: snow and ice that’s bringing down outbuildings, requiring costly repairs, killing livestock and...
Feb 7 2011 // The head of an investment firm that works with insurance companies has been picked as Connecticut’s next insurance commissioner.Thomas B. Leonardi, chairman and CEO of Connecticut-based venture capital firm...
Jan 24 2011 // Connecticut regulators say they recovered approximately $3.4 million last year for consumers who complained that their insurers mishandled their claims — and then handed out another $2.35 million in fines against...
Jan 24 2011 // States across the Northeast continue to look at captive insurance companies as a potential source of new business — and tax revenue — but the continued growth of captives is treating some states better than...
Jan 19 2011 // Insurance recovery law firm Anderson Kill & Olick has opened a new office in Connecticut.The office, in Stamford, gives the firm the ability “ability to represent policyholders on the insurance industry’s...
Jan 14 2011 // Massachusetts-based Encharter Insurance agency will open a fifth branch office, the latest in Simsbury, ConnecticutEncharter will sell personal lines coverage throughout the Farmington Valley, the agency said. It is...
Jan 11 2011 // The Connecticut Public Health Department’s online doctor database frequently omits information about past malpractice payments, making it difficult for patients to make informed decisions. The Hartford Courant...
Jan 10 2011 // Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual will pay a combined $7.5 million to New York and Connecticut to settle allegations that it steered insurance contracts by paying kickbacks large insurance brokers.In settling the suits,...
Jan 7 2011 // A New London woman and Lawrence & Memorial Hospital have settled a lawsuit in which the woman claimed the hospital failed to properly diagnose and treat her mother after she contracted the flesh-eating bacteria.An...
Dec 30 2010 // A Connecticut bar has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine and have its license suspended for 10 days for serving two customers who were killed in a motorcycle crash after leaving the tavern.John Suchy, director of the state Liquor...
Dec 30 2010 // Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual will pay a combined $7.5 million to New York and Connecticut to settle allegations that it steered insurance contracts by paying kickbacks large insurance brokers.In settling the suits,...
Dec 29 2010 // Connecticut public safety officials say nearly 28,000 violations were recorded during the first four months of a crackdown on unsafe trucking. The stepped-up enforcement started in August after several highway crashes...
Dec 10 2010 // State officials say Connecticut’s tough new restrictions on teenage drivers are saving lives.There were six fatal crashes involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers in 2009, the lowest in 12 years. Gov. M. Jodi Rell...
Dec 5 2010 // Federal labor officials have taken aim at a Connecticut ambulance company they allege fired a union employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page.The complaint issued by the...
Dec 2 2010 // Great Northern Insurance is suing electronics firm Apple, claiming that a faulty laptop charger for one of its computers triggered a massive house fire in Central Connecticut.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Hartford...
Nov 19 2010 // The Connecticut Chapter of the National Association of Insurance Women has named Cynthia Bruce, an underwriter at E&S broker S.H. Smith & Co., as its Connecticut professional underwriter of the year. Bruce...
Nov 16 2010 // A Connecticut driver who’s serving a manslaughter sentence for striking and killing a 14-year-old boy is suing the victim’s parents, blaming them for their son’s death because they allowed him to ride his...
Nov 15 2010 // Gov. M. Jodi Rell has appointed an acting insurance commissioner, days before the state’s insurance department is scheduled to hear a request for rate increases from one of Connecticut’s major health...
Nov 14 2010 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan has resigned from his position as the Nutmeg State’s top insurance regulator.Sullivan, a former executive at The Hartford, was appointed as the state’s...