All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 12 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...
Nov 3 2010 // A town official in Greenwich, Connecticut says a man has died after a concrete slab collapsed on him, killing him instantly as he worked in a trench. Medics and police and fire officials responded at about 3 p.m. Monday to...
Nov 2 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 commissioner in 2007 by...
Nov 1 2010 // A 22-year-old Connecticut man accused of causing a car crash in April that took the life of a 70-year-old man is blaming the accident on his dog.Police say Brian Taplinger turned himself in last month and was later...
Oct 27 2010 // A former high school gymnast from Milford whose feet were severely injured when plywood boards fell on them as she set up a temporary floor for practice has settled with the school department for $625,000. Kaylee Ritchie...
Oct 21 2010 // The Cincinnati Insurance Co., the lead property/casualty subsidiary of Cincinnati Financial Corp., will begin writing business in Connecticut through Rose & Kiernan Inc., an independent insurance agency serving...
Oct 20 2010 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan has fined American Modern Home Insurance Co., headquartered in Ohio, $170,000 for violations to state law. Connecticut state law requires individuals sellingl insurance...
Oct 18 2010 // A former student at East Lyme High School in Connecticut who needed emergency brain surgery after crashing into a cement wall during indoor track practice has settled a lawsuit against the town for $325,000.Nicholas...
Oct 14 2010 // A 22-year-old Connecticut man accused of causing a car crash in April that took the life of a 70-year-old man is blaming the accident on his dog.Police say Brian Taplinger turned himself in over the weekend and was...
Sep 29 2010 // Fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a blaze that raced through the main building at the Torrington Country Club and caused an estimated $500,000 in damage.Authorities say the four-alarm fire in Goshen...
Sep 23 2010 // Connecticut’s congressional delegation is asking President Obama to reconsider the denial of federal aid for tornado-related damage in Fairfield County.The delegation wrote to Obama on Tuesday saying the Federal...
Sep 7 2010 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS has won a court order against a former employee it believes is using confidential client information to target AmWINS business accounts and win them over to his new...
Sep 2 2010 // The top arson investigator in Connecticut’s largest city has been arrested in alleged fire-for-hire plot to burn her car for the insurance money.Veteran Bridgeport police Detective Kimberly Biehn is facing charges of...
Sep 2 2010 // Connecticut-based insurance agency Gowrie has hired two new agents and a controller.Daniel Smith has been named producer in Gowrie’s commercial insurance division. He will work with business owners and executives...
Sep 1 2010 // A new highway and traffic survey says nearly 90 percent of Connecticut motorists are using their seat beats, a statistic Gov. M. Jodi Rell says is an all-time high for the state. Rell announced Sunday that a National...
Aug 27 2010 // Five days. That’s how quickly agents and insurers must now notify Connecticut insurance regulators about a possible leak of clients’ personal information. The new bulletin, released earlier this month, follows...
Aug 23 2010 // Lawsuits by the Connecticut Attorney General accusing three credit ratings agencies with giving artificially low credit ratings to municipalities can proceed in a Connecticut state court, a judge ruled.In a ruling made...
Aug 16 2010 // The head of Connecticut’s workers’ compensation program says the largest payouts in 12 years may eventually be made to survivors and family members of employees killed last week at a Manchester beer...
Aug 4 2010 // A new study by four Connecticut state agencies has found no elevated health risks from artificial turf sports fields made with crushed rubber, but it recommends ventilation of indoor turf fields. The $245,000 study tested...
Aug 3 2010 // The Connecticut Supreme Court said state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal cannot publicize confidential business documents obtained under subpoena in an antitrust probe, prompting him to say he might try to have the...