Category: Estate Planning
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Tong Stops Trump From Cutting Parkland-Era School Safety Funds
In the wake of devastating school shootings, members of Congress from both parties came together and appropriated roughly $1 billion to permanently place 14,000 mental health professionals in the schools that need them most — low-income districts and rural communities. By the numbers, it worked. In the first year, the programs delivered mental and behavioral…
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Connecticut Drivers Rear-End Someone Every 17 Minutes
Somewhere in Connecticut, roughly every 17 minutes, one car drives into the back of another. That’s not a dramatization. It’s what the numbers say. Between January 2023 and the middle of 2026, the state logged 110,407 rear-end crashes — about 86 a day, one every 17 minutes around the clock, holidays included. Out of every…
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Tong Settles With 23andMe for $18 Million and Connecticut Takes $887,729. Here’s How Bankruptcy Turned a $100 Billion Demand Into Pennies
If you’ve read the headline — “Attorney General Tong leads a 42-state settlement over the 23andMe genetic data breach” — you already know the soundbite. What the soundbite hides is the real story, and it’s a story about bankruptcy law, not privacy law. Forty-two states filed claims asserting at least $100 billion in damages. They…
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Breathing the Air in Connecticut and Massachusetts on July 18 Was Like Smoking 1 to 2 Cigarettes, Berkeley Research Suggests
If you stepped outside in Connecticut or Massachusetts this weekend and thought the sky looked a little off — that hazy, washed-out, someone-lit-a-campfire-two-towns-over look — you weren’t imagining it. Smoke from the wildfires burning up in Canada rolled back down into New England, and the air we were all casually breathing wasn’t as free as…
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Connecticut Law Grants Sweeping Cancellation Rights, Including Click to Cancel, Renewal Reminders, and No Forced Mail-In Cancellations
If you have ever tried to cancel a gym membership and found yourself trapped in a phone tree, put on hold, transferred to a “retention specialist,” and finally told you had to mail a written request to some address in another state, you already understand the problem Connecticut just fixed. As of July 1, 2026,…
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The Benefits of a Trust: A Guide for Connecticut and Massachusetts Families
Most people come into my office having heard the word “trust” from a friend, a financial advisor, or a late-night ad. What they usually haven’t heard is why a trust does anything at all — or whether they need one. So let’s take the mystery out of it. What a Trust Actually Is A trust…
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Corporate Egg Farms Agree to Give 53 Million Free Eggs to Food Banks as Part of Tong Settlement Resolving Price-Fixing Scheme
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, together with a bipartisan coalition of 17 states, has announced a $3.3 million settlement with three of the country’s largest egg producers, resolving a joint state-and-federal investigation into what the states describe as a long-running scheme to manipulate egg prices. On top of the cash, the producers have to deliver…
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AG Tong Lands $710K False Claims Act Settlement Against Defunct Autism Provider Who Billed Medicaid for Phantom Treatment
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has announced a settlement of just over $710,000 with a now-defunct autism services provider and its owner, resolving allegations that the two billed the state’s Medicaid program for autism treatment that, according to the state, simply never happened. The provider is Trading Spaces ABA, LLC, formerly an autism specialty group…
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AG Campbell Secures $2.75 Million From Nursing Home Ownership Group Over Chronic Understaffing and Resident Neglect
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has reached a $2.75 million settlement with Bear Mountain Healthcare LLC — and a sprawling group of affiliated entities and skilled nursing facilities — to resolve allegations that the company knowingly ran its facilities short-staffed and, in doing so, left vulnerable elderly residents exposed to serious harm. For anyone…
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AG Campbell Nets $495K From Two Distributors Over Meat and Eggs From Inhumanely Confined Animals
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has reached a settlement with two food provision companies accused of selling meat and egg products that came from farm animals kept in cruel, unlawful confinement. The two businesses — Connecticut-based City Line Distributors LLC and New Hampshire-based Poultry Products Company of New England LLC, both operating in Massachusetts…
