• Black Enterprise magazine has announced its fifth annual listing of the 40 Best Companies for Diversity as featured in the July 2009 issue. The companies identified in this special report demonstrated strength and outperformed their peers in one or more of four key categories: board representation, employee base, senior management, and supplier diversity. Aetna and Pitney Bowes were two companies named to the list.
• Attorney Francis J. Brady, of Murtha Cullina LLP in Hartford, was inducted as president at the Connecticut Bar Association’s 2009 annual meeting. He was admitted to practice in 1973, and since then, has made significant achievements in the area of insurance coverage litigation. West Granby resident Brady, who also served as mayor of Windsor from 1994-1997, as a member of the State Bar Examining Committee from 2001-2006, and as president of the Hartford County Bar Association, took office July 1.
• Co-Communications Inc., a full-service public relations and marketing firm, was recognized with three Mercury Awards in the Strategic Campaigns category from the Public Relations Society of America at its annual Mercury awards banquet. Co-Communications received a Gold Mercury Award for a Strategic Campaign in the Marketing Products and Services category, entitled “Technology as a Title Tool.” Prepared on behalf of TitleVest, a Manhattan-based provider of title insurance and related real estate services, the campaign highlighted TitleVest’s longstanding commitment to establishing an industry niche with its creation and implementation of proprietary technology.
• Gov. M. Jodi Rell has signed legislation that makes revisions to the state laws concerning gender discrimination in employment, extending the time for filing a complaint and bolstering the whistleblower protections for employees involved in such cases while expanding possible employer defenses and permitting a judge to award damages when a company violates the law. The bill extends the period for filing a claim from one year to two years. Current law gives whistleblower protection to an employee who files such a claim; the new law extends those protections to colleagues who testify or otherwise assist in a gender discrimination case.
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