All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 16 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has revoked the license of a Middlesex County insurance agent who it says forged clients’ signatures and held thousands of dollars in payments in his own bank account. Those...
Apr 15 2008 // A Connecticut general contractor who delegates special inspections of all steel welding work as required by the state’s building code to a subcontractor is not liable for injuries resulting from an accident that...
Apr 14 2008 // The state Department of Motor Vehicles is setting up a safe driving program for teenagers in response to several fatal car accidents in Connecticut over the past year.Gov. M. Jodi Rell says the Center for Teen Safe Driving...
Apr 11 2008 // Connecticut has moved closer toward enacting tougher rules for teenage drivers, reforms spurred by a several fatal crashes over the past year that involved teens at the wheel.The House of Representatives voted 109-33 in...
Apr 10 2008 // Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal can attempt to recover damages from Marsh & McLennan Inc. for harming the economy of the entire state, the state’s Supreme Court ruled.The ruling stems...
Apr 7 2008 // A state court jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut has awarded more than $4 million to a doctor who was fired from a health care lab in Stratford after he complained that one of its tests could jeopardize patients’...
Apr 7 2008 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has named Daniel Dilzer and David Schoolcraft to the state Workers’ Compensation Commission.Dilzer, 41, is a lawyer with the New Britain-based law firm Davila & Dilzer. He serves...
Apr 7 2008 // Connecticut prosecutors say a state correction officer faces a fraud charge for running a 40-yard dash in high heels while he was supposedly too injured to work.State prosecutors say Garrett A. Dalton of Naugatuck dressed...
Apr 4 2008 // Police in New Milford, Connecticut say an employee at a composting plant has lost his arm in an industrial accident.The victim, whose name hasn’t been released, is identified by police only as a 29-year-old Danbury...
Apr 2 2008 // A Connecticut bill that restricts auto insurers from directing clients to certain car repair shops – legislation opposed by insurers and agents alike – is headed for a floor vote in the state’s General...
Mar 31 2008 // Stamford, Connecticut Mayor Dannel Malloy has asked Gov. M. Jodi Rell to order more frequent state inspections of cranes.In a letter to Rell, he said the city building official has authority to only inspect the base...
Mar 27 2008 // Connecticut prosecutors say a state correction officer faces a fraud charge for running a 40-yard dash in high heels while he was supposedly too injured to work.State prosecutors say Garrett A. Dalton of Naugatuck dressed...
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Mar 24 2008 // An agent for Connecticut’s Department of Motor Vehicles has accused the agency of failing to consistently enforce its own standards in driver training and retraining.Commissioner Robert M. Ward disputes the...
Mar 19 2008 // Federal agents have arrested the owners of a Danbury , Connecticut insurance firm, accusing them of laundering nearly $10 million.Renata Amaral and Monica Teixeira are accused of laundering the money between Brazil and the...
Mar 19 2008 // A Connecticut bill that would have banned insurers in from rating Nutmeg State drivers using credit scores has died in committee.The bill has passed a procedure deadline set by the General Assembly’s Insurance and...
Mar 18 2008 // A commuter bus driver who was critically injured in the 2005 crash involving a runaway dump truck at the base of Connecticut’s Avon Mountain has died at his Torrington home, family members and colleagues said.Frank...
Mar 18 2008 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut elected officers yesterday during the group’s annual convention. The group’s new officers are • President Michael F. Keating of West Hartford, president of...
Mar 13 2008 // Scientists say it was a small earthquake that shook houses in Chester, Connecticut and surrounding towns earlier this week. The U.S. Geological Survey says it recorded a 2.0 magnitude earthquake early Tuesday morning three...
Mar 12 2008 // Connecticut lawmakers say it’s time to reform Connecticut’s bail bondsmen system.Legislators held a hearing today on a bill that would subject bondsmen to testing and routine training, and allow the public...