All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2007 // More people in Connecticut may be getting snagged by police for chatting on their hand-held cell phones while driving, but state lawmakers worry that not everyone is hanging up.“We are seeing more and more drivers...
Oct 2 2007 // Canada’s TD Bank Financial Group reports that it will acquire the Mid-Atlantic regional bank Commerce Bancorp Inc. in a 25 percent cash and 75 percent stock deal valued at $8.5 billion.If approved, the purchase would...
Sep 28 2007 // More than $1 million was recovered on behalf of consumers by the Connecticut Insurance Department’s Consumer Affairs Division during the second quarter, according to Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan.The bulk...
Sep 18 2007 // Truck inspectors will be fanning out across Connecticut this week to look for safety violations on tractor-trailers and other large commercial trucks in response to another serious crash on Avon Mountain.Thirty inspectors...
Sep 13 2007 // Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company recently announced that it has formed a new affiliation agreement with Patrons Mutual Group of Connecticut.Under the agreement, State Automobile Mutual will assume...
Aug 16 2007 // A Connecticut physicians group has sued three insurance companies, claiming they steer patients to certain doctors designated as elite to cut costs.In a lawsuit filed in Danbury Superior Court, the Fairfield County Medical...
Aug 8 2007 // SPARTA Insurance Holdings, Inc. reports that it has closed its contractual arrangements for funding in the amount of $279.1 million of private equity capital from a consortium of investors led by Corsair Capital, and...
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins on Sept....
Aug 6 2007 // Connecticut’s Webster Financial Corp., parent of Webster Bank that owns the state’s largest insurance agency, could be out of the insurance agency business soon.Following a strategic review begun last...
Aug 6 2007 // PeopleThe Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins on...
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins on Sept....
Aug 6 2007 // Connecticut’s Webster Financial Corp., parent of Webster Bank that owns the state’s largest insurance agency, could be out of the insurance agency business soon.Following a strategic review begun last...
Jul 27 2007 // BMS, a reinsurance intermediary, has appointed Frank Hernandez as senior vice president for its Marine & Energy team. He will be based in Shelton, Conn.Hernandez was previously at Towers Perrin as head of its Global...
Jul 27 2007 // Connecticut’s Webster Financial Corp., the parent of Webster Bank that owns the state’s largest insurance agency, could be out of the insurance agency business soon.Following a strategic review begun last...
Jul 23 2007 // Wholesale insurance broker Connecticut Underwriters has welcomed Tom Crawford as its new product development manager based in its Middletown, Conn. office.Crawford has 26 years experience in the insurance industry where he...
Jul 20 2007 // Connecticut will get $23 million in federal homeland security grants this year, an increase of about $10 million from a year ago largely because of new funding for police, fire and medical emergency radios, officials said...
Jul 12 2007 // A federal judge has thrown out a $2.5 million jury award against the town of East Haven, Conn. in connection with the police killing of a 21-year-old man in 1997.U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson, in a decision last...
Jul 6 2007 // Connecticut will try out a new program allowing some vehicle owners to renew their registrations online, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said.Registrations are currently renewed through mail or by visiting a Department of Motor Vehicles...
Jun 29 2007 // Atlanta-based insurance broker Beecher Carlson has named Gerald Levine as managing director. Levine will be responsible for client development for Beecher Carlson’s Risk Management Practice. He will be based in Old...
Jun 28 2007 // People’s United Financial, Inc., the holding company for People’s United Bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has agreed to acquire similarly-sized Chittenden Corp. of Burlington, Vermont, in a stock and cash...