September 29, 2011
A national safety group is urging states and regulators to adopt new standards that would ban a pipe-cleaning practice blamed for a 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion that killed six workers. The National Fire Protection Association’s new standard, published a …
June 24, 2011
A year has passed since a tornado roared down Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, battering buildings and toppling trees in the Nutmeg State’s largest city. Recovery has been steady in some areas and lagging in others. The initial shock has …
September 1, 2010
The parents of six deceased U.S. soldiers are suing Prudential Financial, saying it paid paltry interest on military life insurance benefits while keeping more generous interest earnings for itself. Five plaintiffs joined the original plaintiff Monday in the lawsuit, which …
May 17, 2010
A woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after learning she carried a gene implicated in breast cancer. Pamela Fink, 39, said in discrimination complaints that her bosses at natural …
April 30, 2010
A woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after learning she carried a gene implicated in breast cancer. Pamela Fink, 39, said in discrimination complaints that her bosses at natural …
January 13, 2010
For more than a decade, Connecticut lawmakers have considered and dismissed the idea of requiring seat belts on school buses that carry nearly 500,000 children each day. But a deadly weekend crash in Hartford has given the argument a human …
December 6, 2009
The Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit brought by the owners of a dump truck involved in a fiery crash in Avon in 2005 that killed four people and injured 11 others. In its decision, the high court overturned a …
November 20, 2009
The Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the owners of a dump truck involved in a fiery crash in Avon in 2005 that killed four people and injured 11 others.In its decision, the high court overturned a …
November 15, 2009
The family of an elderly Connecticut woman who died after her chenille bathrobe caught on fire has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the retailer for wrongful death and product liability. Atwilda Brown, 80, was making her nightly cup of …
October 30, 2009
The family of an elderly Connecticut woman who died after her chenille bathrobe caught on fire has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the retailer for wrongful death and product liability. Atwilda Brown, 80, was making her nightly cup of …