All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2006 // If conscience and good business practices are not enough to make Connecticut trucking companies comply with safety regulations, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal hopes the threat of public humiliation will do the...
Feb 1 2006 // Continental Agency of Connecticut Inc., Hamden, Conn. reported the reorganization of its executive administration. Walter Prast is the new chief executive officer and chief financial officer; Gerard Prast now serves as...
Jan 23 2006 // A patient safety group in Connecticut is pushing for a law that would require hospitals to track and publicly disclose cases of infections contracted in hospitals.The measure, according to the Connecticut Center for...
Jan 22 2006 // Conn. Democrats eye merger of departments Senate Democratic leaders in Hartford have come up with several proposals they say will make Connecticut more business friendly, including the merger of the insurance and banking...
Jan 22 2006 // Bollinger, MLW ServicesBollinger Inc. has acquired MLW Services Inc. of New York. The principals of MLW, Andrew Marks, president and CEO, Bert Linder, executive vice president and Chuck Weisblum, chairman, will continue in...
Jan 22 2006 // From New England to Virginia, courts and juries made insurance headlinesUp and down the East coast, much of the most interesting local insurance news in 2005 took place in the courts of law and not in the court of public...
Jan 22 2006 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2006 National Directory of Excess, Surplus and Specialty Markets, Volume 1. This exclusive biannual market directory has been designed to assist independent agents and brokers in the...
Jan 18 2006 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has proposed doubling the fines for people who break traffic laws on Avon Mountain, part of a package of recommendations prompted by a fiery crash that killed four people over the summer.Rell...
Jan 18 2006 // Usually snow and ice are the culprits this time of year in the Northeast for problems with the weather.Wednesday, though, proved to be Mother Nature offering a different problem for residents. Winds, in some cases...
Jan 11 2006 // Senate Democratic leaders in Hartford have proposed several changes in state law they say will make Connecticut more business friendly. The proposals include merging the insurance and banking departments to “better...
Jan 5 2006 // A fire on Tuesday destroyed the town of Griswold, Conn.’s historic former Town Hall, which led to the discovery that the $2.1 million insurance policy on the building expired in October.The fire reduced the structure...
Jan 4 2006 // The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (SBLI) it is now actively conducting business in Connecticut under the name Centrian Life Insurance.The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts has been...
Jan 3 2006 // The Connecticut Department of Insurance has reaffirmed an October decision denying a 12 percent increase in medical malpractice insurance rates requested by ProSelect.ProSelect had appealed the earlier rejection of the...
Jan 1 2006 // Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, a Boston-based auto insurer, has appointed Matthew H. Cronin as senior marketing representative and Sean P. Farrelly as marketing representative, both in Connecticut.Cronin will provide...
Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light.But much of the...
Dec 27 2005 // Feds offer low-interest loans for flood damage in Conn. Received by Newsfinder from AP Dec 23, 2005 20:21 Eastern Time Federal low-interest loans are available to Connecticut businesses, nonprofit groups and residents...
Dec 21 2005 // More than 5,000 drunken driving cases over the last four years escaped enforcement action by the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles mostly because of technicalities, a new report shows.Those technicalities included...
Dec 14 2005 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan Cogswell has approved a slight boost in workers compensation insurance rates effective Jan. 1.She accepted the recommendations from the industry’s National Council on...
Dec 12 2005 // A Waterbury, Conn. jury has awarded $32.1 million to a Bristol construction worker paralyzed in an accident more than a decade ago.Norman Pelletier, 54, was permanently paralyzed below the chest when a steal beam at a...
Dec 9 2005 // In a case that could have implications for New York Cardinal Edward Egan, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport asked the Connecticut Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that newspapers can ask for documents related...