All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 30 2008 // The family of a 19-year-old who died in a drunken driving accident is suing the hosts of a Madison party where the driver had been given alcohol.The family of Kirsten Meyer, killed in a drunken driving crash after a 2007...
Oct 30 2008 // A Bristol, Connecticut insurance broker says he’s filling in as the Republican candidate in the 76th Assembly District race to honor the original candidate who apparently took his own life last week.David L. Norton...
Oct 28 2008 // For many East Coast homeowners, the difficulty lies not in finding insurance, but paying for it. And that so-called affordability problem affects nearly every state along the coastline.Given their recent history with...
Oct 28 2008 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan reports that his agency has recovered more than $1.4 million in the third quarter from settling consumer complaints. It is the highest recovery total for the department...
Oct 9 2008 // A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman’s lawsuit claiming L’Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products.Charlotte Feeney says...
Oct 6 2008 // A new survey shows that nearly one in three doctors in Connecticut are not happy practicing in the state and are considering changing jobs or moving. Of course, insurance costs just happen to be one of the reasons, along...
Sep 25 2008 // A new survey shows that nearly one in three doctors in Connecticut are not happy practicing in the state and are considering changing jobs or moving.The University of Connecticut Heath Center’s Institute for Public...
Sep 22 2008 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has declined to rule on a Florida agency’s efforts to block state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from disclosing information he obtained while investigating the insurance...
Sep 8 2008 // Connecticut is cleaning up after Tropical Storm Hanna blew quickly through the state.Less than 9,000 customers of Connecticut Light and Power were without power Sunday morning. United Illuminating says only a few dozen...
Sep 4 2008 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has declined to rule on a Florida company’s efforts to block state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from disclosing information he obtained while investigating the insurance...
Sep 3 2008 // Officials in Milford, Connecticut say a 29-year-old man has been hospitalized for traumatic injuries after he was pinned under a 1,000-pound freight elevator.Firefighters were called to the Optical Polymers International...
Sep 1 2008 // Smoking kills. And in Connecticut, it also changes the apportionment of workers’ compensation benefits, the state’s top court has ruled.Last month, Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled in an asbestos case...
Aug 29 2008 // Counterfeit auto insurance cards have been a problem for years, say Connecticut insurance officials, but recently, the department’s fraud and investigations’ divisions have been seeing seen a lot more of the...
Aug 22 2008 // Lockton Connecticut has named Orlando Rodriquez vice president and unit manager for its Farmington-based commercial insurance team. Rodriguez brings to Lockton 14 years of experience providing risk management solutions to...
Aug 13 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Dept said it has recovered $630,000 on behalf of policyholders from complaints resolved in the second quarter of this year.Department staff received 1,372 new complaints and inquiries in the...
Aug 1 2008 // A.M. Best Co. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services have both reacted positively to The Hanover Insurance Group’s (THG) announcement that has reached agreement to sell its remaining run-off life insurance...
Jul 30 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has fined subsidiaries of CNA Insurance Group a total of $96,000 for violations of state law.The fines were assessed to CNA’s subsidiaries for alleged violations of laws regarding...
Jul 22 2008 // Plainville, Conn. police have arrested a Portland woman, accusing her of trying to retaliate against her former boss by having electricity cut off to his home.Police say 33-year-old Susan Armato was fired June 25 from her...
Jul 21 2008 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan has fined Vermont Mutual Insurance Co. $144,000 for violations of state law.A market conduct exam conducted by survey alleged that Vermont Mutual had 104 agents who...
Jul 7 2008 // Hudson Insurance, HooghuisHudson Insurance Group, the U.S. insurance division of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp.has acquired Hooghuis Group LLC, an underwriting agency specializing in U.S. directors and officers liability...