Latest Connecticut Headlines
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Patriot Growth Adds Connecticut Benefits Firm
Dec 8 2023 // Pennsylvania-based Patriot Growth Insurance Services reports it has acquired Blueprint Benefit Advisors of Hamden, Connecticut. Blueprint provides employee benefits, human resource support, benefits technology, and...
Visiting Nurse’s Killing at Halfway House Renews Pleas for Home Health Care Safety
Dec 8 2023 // The killing of a Connecticut nurse making a house call in October was a nightmare come true for an industry gripped by the fear of violence. Already stressed out by staffing shortages and mounting caseloads, heath care...
Sandy Hook Families Offer to Settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 Billion Debt for $85 Million
Nov 29 2023 // Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the...
Business Moves
Nov 20 2023 // National Arthur J. Gallagher, Clements Worldwide Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Washington, D.C.-based Clements Worldwide. Clements is an international insurance broker serving expats,...
Connecticut Approves 10% Rate Reductions for Workers’ Compensation for 2024
Nov 16 2023 // Businesses in Connecticut will receive a nearly 10% decrease in rates for workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2024. The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved an annual workers’...
NOAA: U.S. Withstands Record 25 Disasters in 2023
Nov 15 2023 // Another billion-dollar disaster was confirmed in October, bringing the total to a record 25 such disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA began tracking the events. These...
Business Moves
Nov 6 2023 // East World Insurance Associates, Oakwood Insurance Agency World Insurance Associates has acquired the business of Oakwood Insurance Agency LLC, also doing business as Insure Big Rig, of Califon, New Jersey. Oakwood has...
Judge Rules Against Alex Jones, Denies Bankruptcy Protection in Sandy Hook Lawsuit
Oct 24 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school...
Asbestos Wrongful Death Claim Allowed Against Employer as Workers’ Comp Exception
Oct 24 2023 // A Connecticut appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim that tests a narrow exception to the state law that makes workers’ compensation the exclusive remedy for most workplace deaths and injuries. Harold...
4 Cows Killed in Truck Rollover Crash in Connecticut; Another 6 Euthanized
Oct 23 2023 // A tractor-trailer carrying 44 dairy cows crashed on a Connecticut highway exit ramp early Thursday, killing eight of the animals immediately while another six had to be euthanized because of their injuries, state police...
Alex Jones Must Pay $1.1 Billion of Sandy Hook Damages Despite Bankruptcy: Court
Oct 20 2023 // Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S....
New York’s Lawley Acquires Connecticut’s Shoff Darby Agency
Oct 20 2023 // Buffalo-based independent agency Lawley has acquired Connecticut-based Shoff Darby Companies, Inc., in what Lawley says is it largest acquisition to date. Lawley will add four locations and 75 employees in Connecticut, as...
Connecticut High School Player Dies During Football Practice
Oct 13 2023 // A Connecticut high school student died after losing consciousness at football practice, school officials said. Windsor High School student Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera lost consciousness during practice Tuesday and was given...
Connecticut Governor Says Police Retirements Not Driven by Ticket Probes
Oct 11 2023 // The top two leaders of Connecticut State Police will be stepping down in the middle of multiple investigations into whether troopers submitted bogus data on thousands of traffic stops that may have never happened, Gov. Ned...
Connecticut Adds Cancer Presumption to Firefighters’ Workers’ Compensation
Oct 2 2023 // A new Connecticut law making it easier for firefighters who develop cancer to receive workers’ compensation benefits will go into effect on October 1, 2023. Approved as part of the state budget bill, the law creates...
Connecticut Eyes 9.8% Cut in Workers’ Compensation Costs
Sep 26 2023 // Connecticut workers’ compensation insurers are recommending an overall 9.8% reduction in loss costs in the voluntary market and a 10.5% overall reduction in the assigned risk market. The rate filing submitted to the...
People
Sep 18 2023 // National QBE Insurance Group appointed Julie Wood as Interim CEO North America upon the exit of former QBE NA CEO Todd Jones. Wood joined QBE in January 2023 as group head of Distribution. She was previously at Marsh as...
Connecticut Farm Worker Paralyzed After Being Attacked by Bull
Sep 8 2023 // A 59-year-old Connecticut man was seriously injured after being attacked by a bull at the farm where he was working. Family members told Hearst Connecticut Media that the bull attacked Randy Janquins on Friday at a farm in...
People Moves: Greaves Joins Fred C. Church From MIT; Connecticut Big I Elects Jones
Sep 1 2023 // Greaves Joins Fred C. Church Insurance Commercial Lines Fred C. Church Insurance, headquartered in Lowell, Mass., hired Damual Greaves to its education team as a client executive. Greaves joins Fred C. Church after serving...
Connecticut Can’t Hide Police Report on Hospital Patient’s Death
Sep 1 2023 // Police reports about deaths and other incidents in public hospitals cannot be kept secret, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, citing the importance of government transparency and the public`s right to know what...
