All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2010 // A woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after learning she carried a gene implicated in breast cancer.Pamela Fink, 39, said in discrimination...
May 14 2010 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired four retail insurance agencies in central and southeastern Connecticut with combined revenues of $7.2 million.The acquired agencies are McCutcheon Burr & Sons, of...
May 11 2010 // A Connecticut jury has awarded $2.9 million to a bicyclist who was injured when she hit a gate on West Hartford land owned by a regional water and sewer agency. Maribeth Blonski of Rocky Hill sued the Hartford-based...
May 7 2010 // Connecticut lawmakers ran out of time to pass legislation that addresses power plant safety in the wake of the deadly Feb. 7 Kleen Energy plant explosion in Middletown. Some legislators were still attempting to pass a bill...
May 6 2010 // A bill that provides Connecticut school districts with a financial incentive to buy school buses with seat belts is heading to the governor.The Senate gave the bill final legislative approval late Tuesday night. The...
May 6 2010 // A Connecticut financial adviser has been sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding more than two dozen clients of more than $2 million and losing the money while gambling in casinos. Thomas Cipriano was sentenced...
May 4 2010 // A Connecticut businessman faces sentencing for stealing more than $1.3 million from clients and using the money to gamble at Connecticut’s casinos.Thomas Cipriano has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money...
May 4 2010 // Connecticut lawmakers have approved a bill imposing extra taxes on bonuses paid to state employees of investment banks and insurers that received federal bailout aid during the economic crisis.The House of Representatives...
Apr 30 2010 // A woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after learning she carried a gene implicated in breast cancer.Pamela Fink, 39, said in discrimination...
Apr 26 2010 // A Connecticut court has ruled that Wells Fargo-owned insurance brokerage Acordia Inc. broke the law by failing to disclose it received contingent commissions from five insurers.At issue in the case was an internal...
Apr 22 2010 // The Connecticut Insurance Department said it recovered over $1 million on behalf of consumer in the first quarter of the year.The department’s consumer affairs unity, which oversee complaints against insurers,...
Apr 20 2010 // Foremost Insurance Group has launched its DistinctChoice Auto program in Connecticut. The auto program features increased limits, deductible options and coverages.The program also offers broad eligibility and discounts....
Apr 16 2010 // Jeffery Stone and his wife Janette Diller Stone, one-time operators of a now-defunct New York investment firm called Crescent Fund, are not on any government most wanted list. And they aren’t exactly hiding, either....
Apr 12 2010 // A woman who says she was beaten at 50 Cent’s Connecticut mansion has been awarded more than $30,000 in her lawsuit against a member of the rapper’s entourage.A Waterbury Superior Court judge ruled Thursday in...
Apr 9 2010 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has fined four GEICO subsidiaries a total of $177,500 for improper rating, claim delays and the use of unlicensed adjusters among other violations.The total fine is a result of smaller...
Apr 7 2010 // Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. and surveys the lobby where roughly 150 other...
Apr 5 2010 // A Connecticut State Senator thinks things have become too chummy between the state’s insurers and the commissioner of the state’s insurance department. To fix it, he says he would like to make the...
Apr 5 2010 // Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel and surveys the lobby where roughly 150 other insurance agents...
Apr 5 2010 // Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. and surveys the lobby where roughly 150 other...
Apr 5 2010 // New Jersey-based Synergy Professional Associates has hired Thomas Dattoli as manager of its professional liability unit. Dattoli will be responsible for underwriting professional and excess liability for lawyers, and...