All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2023 // Connecticut on Tuesday sued four gun companies it accused of mailing illegal firearm parts with no serial numbers to an undercover state investigator, the latest legal filing by states and cities seeking to crack down on...
Feb 22 2023 // The owner and manager of a Connecticut insurance firm pled guilty this week in federal court in White Plains, New York to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, according to prosecutors.Between 2015 and 2019,...
Feb 16 2023 // A federal appeals court has reinstated a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, two months after a three-judge panel upheld the rules.The 2nd U.S....
Feb 14 2023 // For more than a decade, Connecticut courts have been dismissing medical malpractice actions if the plaintiff did not submit a proper certificate and opinion letter from “a similar health care provider” that...
Feb 6 2023 // Connecticut Insurance Department Names Callanan as General CounselConnecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais has named Jane Callanan, of Wallingford, his department’s new general counsel. Before taking on this...
Feb 2 2023 // A federal investigation has found a Connecticut contractor’s failure to provide legally required safeguards and make sure they were in place to prevent trench collapses contributed to the death of an employee buried...
Feb 1 2023 // BOZRAH, Conn. (AP) — An estimated 100,000 hens died in a weekend fire at a Connecticut farm owned by one of the country’s largest egg producers, Connecticut officials confirmed Monday. It’s one of several...
Jan 31 2023 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld insurers in two cases where claims for business interruption losses blamed on Covid-19 were denied because there was no direct physical damage.One case involved healthcare...
Jan 25 2023 // Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a series of proposed gun laws Monday in a state already considered one of the strictest for firearms ownership, including a statewide ban on open carrying expected to draw strong...
Jan 23 2023 // A review of concrete foundations of public buildings in northeastern Connecticut, including schools and fire stations, has found no widespread deterioration problems like what’s plagued hundreds of residential...
Jan 17 2023 // Five Connecticut police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in a police van with no seat belts when the driver braked hard.The...
Jan 5 2023 // Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has reappointed a number of commissioners including Insurance Commissioner Andrew Mais to continue serving in his second term in office:Lamont first nominated Mais in 2019 to oversee the...
Dec 28 2022 // A review of concrete foundations of public buildings in northeastern Connecticut, including schools and fire stations, has found no widespread deterioration problems like what’s plagued hundreds of residential...
Nov 8 2022 // Brown & Brown Dealer Services has acquired Finance Builders, a Canton, Connecticut firm providing finance and insurance (F&I) products and sales support to auto dealers in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Finance...
Nov 8 2022 // National insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports that it acquired CDR Insurance Group, Inc. of Waterbury, Connecticut on October 1, 2022. CDR was founded in 1992 by Rick Rice. The agency provides commercial and...
Oct 24 2022 // Connecticut businesses will see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023.The Connecticut Insurance Department has officially approved an average decrease of 3% to...
Oct 19 2022 // A commuter train hit a tractor-trailer Monday whose operator had driven to a rail crossing after leaving the scene of an earlier crash, transit authorities said. Nine train passengers suffered minor injuries.The...
Oct 5 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by the Connecticut State Police Union in its challenge of a police accountability law that allows public disclosure of certain state trooper personnel files and...
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Sep 30 2022 // Connecticut workers’ compensation costs to employers are on their way down, again.The industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) has proposed an overall average change of -3.0% to the...