How This Could Impact Wrongful Death/Personal Injury Claims and Civil Suits This past October, Connecticut governor Ned Lamont signed a “duty to intervene” law in response to the protests against racial injustice and police brutality. This law was part of an omnibus of other police reforms and gives officers a duty to intervene if they …
Connecticut lawmakers have approved a bill aimed at taming the state’s budget deficit, now estimated at more than $1 billion. ConnPolitics.Tv You can find the bill here. Read OLR’s analysis here. I guess the big news is that the legislature will expand the bottle law to include non-carbonated beverages. Don’t they know that all the cool …
The firm names may be different but on Above The Law the story is the same. First a firm announces a salary freeze, or reduces bonuses, or lays off staff. It’s like a bad a la carte appetizer. The firm issues a statement about tough economic times, how the firm is strong, and nothing more is planned. …
Article says layoffs across all firm offices. No associate layoffs. According to its website, Day Pitney has Connecticut offices in Hartford, West Hartford, Greenwich, New Haven and Stamford. Memo from co-chair of exective committee states that affected staff will be provided severance packages. A sad day for all those impacted to be sure. Based on Above The …
by Ryan C. McKeen Foreclosures in Connecticut are on the rise and have been for sometime. I haven’t seen updated numbers from the Judicial Branch (which would be useful) but I don’t live under a rock either. I’m not that interested in the overall numbers because I know they’re bad. What I want to know is the …
By Ryan McKeen I’ve written about lemons before and Attorney Sergei Lemberg writes about them all the time. If you’re a long time reader then you know my dog Brady. I adopted Brady from the Hartford Pound as a puppy. Dogs at the pound are given 8 days to be adopted or be put to …
If Governor Rell has her way- I’ll have less to write about. Here are some of the statutes that Governor Rell seeks to repeal: A law that makes it clear that a person cannot defend any action on the grounds that it was made on a Sunday. Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 52-207. A statute that …
by Ryan McKeen 1/29/2009 Yet even that number, economists said, may be just a cloud. The total number of businesses to start in Connecticut last year — 27,483 — is still 11 percent lower than the number of those that started up in 2007. The data were released Wednesday by Secretary of the State Susan …
“So in Connecticut, it is easy to fire someone for any reason or no reason at all and difficult to evict someone for a good reason. No wonder our state has problems.” -A recently unemployed landlord. This came to me via email and is published with the author’s permission. The statement is not a legal …
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