Category: Estate Planning
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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…
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Massachusetts Just Got an “F” on Housing. Here’s What That Actually Means.
The News First A new edition of a national state-by-state housing report card is out, and Massachusetts did not just fail—it nearly finished last. The report grades all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., on a 100-point scale split evenly between two things: how affordable homes are for the people who actually live there, and how…
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Connecticut receives ‘F’ for housing affordability and availability in new report
The News First A new edition of a national state-by-state housing report card is out, and Connecticut did not fare well. The report grades all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., on a 100-point scale split evenly between two things: how affordable homes are for the people who actually live there, and how aggressively each state…
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Governor Lamont Signs Agreement Establishing Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverage for Connecticut DOT Employees
On June 17, 2026, Governor Ned Lamont announced he had signed a side letter to the NP-2 Collective Bargaining Agreement requiring the State of Connecticut to extend uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage to Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) employees. The agreement, reached with the Connecticut Employees Union Independent (CEUI), provides up to $1 million…
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CT Lemon Law Program Hits Record $8.1 Million Returned to Consumers
If you’ve ever bought a brand-new car only to watch it spend more time in the repair shop than in your driveway, you know the special kind of frustration that comes with owning a “lemon.” The good news for Connecticut drivers? The state has one of the oldest and most effective programs in the country…
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Will Feds Prosecute New Haven Hate Crime?
Two antisemitic attacks, two weeks apart, two very different legal endings — at least so far. In Albuquerque, a man is sitting in federal custody. In New Haven, a man is out on a $10,000 bond facing state charges. The natural question for anyone watching the Crown Street case: could the feds step in here…
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Lamont Sues Eversource Over Hidden ‘Bonus’ Fees
For more than two decades, Eversource and United Illuminating have collected a little extra on top of their transmission profits — a reward for voluntarily joining the regional power grid operator, ISO New England. The problem, Connecticut now argues, is that joining isn’t voluntary anymore. The state made it the law in 2025. And you…
