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The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released a study on the number of animal-related insurance losses for the years 20142017. The data is gleaned from insurance claims for losses that occurred in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
A dozen homes in Newtown have been condemned due to damage from last weeks storms, according to the first selectman. First Selectman Daniel Rosenthal confirmed that 10 homes in the Lakeview Terrace area were condemned, and another two in the Lake Zoar area.
Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Connecticut Insurance Department has activated its emergency adjuster program that allows insurance companies to quickly register their out-of-state adjusters and bring them into the state to help with claims of property and auto damage.
The National Weather Service said late Wednesday that Tuesdays killer storm included two separate tornadoes that struck four Connecticut communities Beacon Falls, Hamden, Oxford and Southbury.
One man was killed in Danbury during severe storms that moved through Connecticut on Tuesday afternoon, according to the mayor. Another person was killed in New Fairfield during the storms, according to state police.
A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.
The man accused of crashing his car through Middlesex Hospital on Feb. 22 before lighting himself on fire has died, officials said Friday. Middlesex Hospital is set to reopen its emergency room Saturday morning for the first time since the crash and fire.
Tens of thousands of utility workers in the Northeast raced to restore power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses just days after a powerful and deadly noreaster caused flooding and wind damage from Virginia to Maine.
Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.
After a man drove a car into the emergency department of Middlesex Hospital on Thursday, other hospitals across the state are taking safety precautions. Police said Steven Ellam intentionally drove a car into Middlesex Hospital, and then lit himself on fire.
A tractor trailer truck driver killed in a six-car pileup Saturday morning, that also injured three other people, has been identified as a 33-year-old man from Thomaston Connecticut.
Slippery conditions from a Saturday snowfall helped cause a big increase in the number of accidents investigated by State Police during the long New Years holiday weekend. From 12:01 a.m. on Friday to 11:59 p.m. on Monday, troopers responded to 494 accidents.
A storm left almost 600,000 homes and businesses across the Northeast without power early Monday. National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Dellicarpini said there were reports of downed trees around the region and roads that were impassable in spots due to flash flooding.