All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2010 // A key legislative committee has advanced a bill that would make Connecticut’s drunken boating law conform with state drunken driving legislation.The Joint Judiciary Committee passed a bill Monday that eliminates the...
Mar 29 2010 // Police are searching for the hit-and-run driver whose car struck and killed a Hartford Hospital employee.Police and hospital officials said the victim was crossing a street in front of a medical arts building on Saturday...
Mar 24 2010 // Connecticut officials are notifying 11,000 residents who applied for state rebates after purchasing energy efficient furnaces that their personal information may have been stolen.Robert Genuario, secretary of the...
Mar 24 2010 // Maine-based insurer Acadia Insurance Co. has named Christopher Rourke as its new regional vice president-Connecticut branch manager.Rourke will help to develop and monitor the overall underwriting, marketing, loss control...
Mar 18 2010 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is heralding recommendations of a state commission that would crackdown on companies that illegally misclassify employees as independent contractors, and dramatically raise...
Mar 11 2010 // E&S brokerage firm Connecticut Underwriters has named Darren Valencia as director of its professional lines business. Valencia has 10 years of experience underwriting and brokering professional liability coverage, and...
Mar 7 2010 // A Connecticut police officer who shot and killed a 200-pound chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied an insurance claim for post-traumatic stress disorder because state law only applies to police...
Mar 2 2010 // Connecticut insurance regulators have ordered insurer Zurich to pay $235,000 in fines for having unlicensed agents and adjusters, improperly rating commercial lines, and for lack of oversight for document...
Mar 2 2010 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc has elected new officers. They are: President Howard Olderman, of Milford, who is president of The Olderman and Hallihan Agency Inc. in Ansonia. President-elect: James...
Feb 25 2010 // Two workers injured in a power plant explosion filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that proper safety procedures were not followed, and an attorney said that included live electricity running through the site, workers welding...
Feb 24 2010 // A Connecticut teenage girl who says she was raped in the back of a taxi in Naugatuck in 2007 has been awarded $1 million in a lawsuit against the alleged attacker and the cab company.A Waterbury Superior Court jury reached...
Feb 22 2010 // A Waterbury businessman faces sentencing for ripping off clients of more than $1.3 million, which he used to gamble at Connecticut’s casinos. Thomas Cipriano has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering. The...
Feb 19 2010 // A Connecticut police officer who shot and killed a 200-pound chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied an insurance claim for post-traumatic stress disorder because state law only applies to police...
Feb 16 2010 // Three days before the deadly explosion at a Connecticut natural gas power plant, a federal agency that investigates chemical accidents recommended urgent changes to national safety standards for clearing gas from pipes.But...
Feb 12 2010 // Connecticut insurance regulators recovered almost $3.2 million last year for consumers involved in formal disputes with their insurers over claims payments.There were 6,798 complaints and inquiries lodged last year. The...
Feb 11 2010 // Crews were slowly and carefully removing gas cylinders from the site of a deadly explosion at an under-construction power plant in Connecticut, and investigators have interviewed survivors in an effort to determine the...
Feb 8 2010 // An explosion at an under-construction energy plant in Central Connecticut has killed at least five workers and injured 12 others, prompting a major emergency response by local and state officials as they continue to search...
Feb 3 2010 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has announced she will propose stronger enforcement of the state’s 2005 law barring hand-held cell phones while driving. In a statement Saturday, Rell said she will submit legislation...
Feb 3 2010 // Waterbury, Connecticut-based Webster Financial Corp. said it was the target of an elaborate embezzlement scheme at a subcontractor that provides bulk cash processing on behalf of one of its major vendors. The company said...
Jan 27 2010 // A hospital that performed America’s first face transplant has told the family of a woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee a year ago that she is not a candidate for a face and hand transplant.Charla Nash’s...