Category: Connecticut
Drug Company Gifts To Doctors Should Be Disclosed And Limited, Ct AG Urges
Conn Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today urged legislation requiring strict limitations and strong disclosure of pharmaceutical drug company gifts to doctors that may improperly influence health care decisions. (Press release which CtWatchdog totally agrees with)
Blumenthal — who has handled several major investigations and settlements involving drug company influence over doctors — testified on the legislation [...]
Greater Hospital Error Disclosure Requested By Conn AG
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today called for legislation requiring greater disclosure, investigative authority and increased civil penalties for medical errors at hospitals. (This is a press release but I TOTALLY agree with it CtWatchdog).
Blumenthal and Connecticut Center for Patient Safety Executive Director Jean Rexford testified along with people who lost spouses or experienced a medical [...]
Credit Card Act Rules Still Not Ready, Ct AG Blames The Fed
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, us is running for the U.S. Senate, demanded that the U. S. Federal Reserve explain why it failed to meet today’s deadline for rules to roll back massive, unjustified credit card interest rate and fee increases and provide a timeframe for issuing the regulations.
“The Fed’s failure to meet a deadline [...]
Hartford Courant Continues Its Campaign To Defeat Legislation That Would Reduce Newspaper Income, But Save Towns $$$
The Hartford Courant is continuing its campaign to defeat proposed legislation that would permit towns to save millions of dollars in advertising costs by posting legal notices on government sites instead of in daily newspapers.
In its lead editorial yesterday, The Courant admitted it and other newspapers have a “vested interest,” but failed to tell its [...]
Conn AG Could Cost Ct Taxpayers $18 Million
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t recall seeing a press release yesterday from Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal about a suit he lost that could cost state taxpayers more than $18 million. Normally Blumenthal’s two press aides crank out several press releases each day.
But according to a story in today’s Courant by two top [...]
Animal Abuse Awareness Poster
In an effort to raise awareness of animal abuse and the potential legal consequences for those found guilty of that crime, the nonprofit group Concerned Citizens For Humanity (CCFH) funded the development and printing of a poster designed to educate the public about this crime.
“We feel that animal abuse has a widespread impact on society,” Darrell Decker, executive director [...]
Amtrak Awards Conn Bridge Work To Maine Firm, Ct AG Asks That State Workers Be Used
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today he is disappointed Amtrak awarded to a Maine company the $104.7 million contract — more than half to be paid by federal stimulus funds — to replace the Niantic River railroad bridge, and called on the winning bidder to employ state workers and subcontractors and ensure critical worker protections and benefits.
Ct Atty Gen Claim Pratt Blowing Smoke On Why Transferring Work
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, in a brief filed in federal court, said that Pratt & Whitney has failed to demonstrate that the transfer of about 1,000 Connecticut jobs out of state and overseas will result in any savings during the term of its union contract.
Blumenthal said the company also proved through its own case at [...]
OSHA Inspection Obstructed By Connecticut Humane Society President, Workers Claim
Sept. 11, 2009 is a date remembered by many workers at the Connecticut Humane Society. It of course was the anniversary of the World Trade Center destruction. It was the date that a group of staffers said they would no longer be bullied by Humane Society President and Board Chairman Richard Johnston and they conducted their first of many secret union formation meetings.
Ex Connecticut Humane Society PR Chief Dishes On Its President
A former Connecticut Humane Society Public Relations Director is backing up allegations that the Society’s president Richard Johnston bullies and verbally abuses employees on a regular basis.
Cheryl D. Rice, who now runs her own public relations and marketing business from her central Connecticut home, says she was one of many employees who was fired by Johnston.
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