The top legislative priority for PIACT—during the 2023 legislative session—was the passage of legislation that would make small, but critical changes to the process for placing insurance policies in the nonadmitted marketplace. That legislation, H.B.6621, successful...
As the days tick by to the end of the Connecticut legislative session, PIACT has been advocating for passage of the association’s top priority, H.B.6621, which makes small, but important changes to the current process of placing risks in the nonadmitted marketplace....
PIACT held its annual Connecticut Convention at the end of March—returning to the Hartford Marriott Downtown. The event featured hundreds of agents, company representatives, exhibitors, and more industry professionals from Connecticut. Excitingly, the Connecticut...
HARTFORD, Conn.—Officers of the Connecticut Young Insurance Professionals were elected during PIACT’s Annual Convention, March 24, 2023, at the Hartford Marriott Downtown. Ryan Kelly of Arthur J. Gallagher in Shelton will serve as president; Justin Sloan of Nesso...
HARTFORD, Conn.—The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc., elected J. Kyle Dougherty, CIC, president during the association’s Annual Convention held March 23-24, 2023, at the Hartford Marriott Downtown. Dougherty is a second-generation president for the...
The warm granite atrium of the Connecticut Legislative Office Building served as the setting for the 2023 PIACT Legislative Reception, held on March 7, 2023. PIACT President Bud O’Neil, CPIA, welcomed the co-chairpersons of the Connecticut Insurance and Real Estate...
According to data collected by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Census Bureau, and analyzed by MoneyGeek, road conditions and the money spent on overall maintenance varies tremendously from state to state. What this seems to mean is that regardless...
Connecticut’s, New Hampshire’s, and Vermont’s midterm results helped bolster the Democrats nationally, helped the Republicans keep two gubernatorial seats, and had strong turnouts across the three states. The Democrats held onto all the Senate seats up for election in...
The Connecticut Insurance Department approved the proposed workers’ compensation loss cost filing made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, consisting of an overall 3% decrease. Also approved is an overall assigned risk rate change of 0%. These loss...
The Connecticut General Assembly adjourned on May 4, without setting a date to reconvene. It was one of the shortest legislative sessions in recent history. As has been the case in recent years, the session kicked off with a deluge of bills being...
