May 27, 2024 - Hartford Business Journal

Health Care

🔒Bordonaro: Lawmakers derelict in not addressing CT’s collapsing small group health insurance market

As is typical every year, Connecticut lawmakers in 2024 let many bills die before the end of the legislative session on May 8. In some cases, that’s not a bad […]

Accounting

🔒Long-term, sustainable giving is key to arts and culture funding

Arts groups are often synonymous with their marquee events. But theater performances, concerts, gallery shows and museum...

Arts & Culture

🔒New owners of The Webster theater make ‘six-figure’ investment to attract diverse performers, audiences — while also fixing the bathrooms

The new owners of The Webster in Hartford have breathed new life into the aging concert venue,...

Banking & Finance

🔒State policymakers say for-profit hospital ownership model isn’t dead, but reforms needed

Even with Prospect Medical Holdings’ growing financial problems, state legislators say they aren’t ready to prohibit the...

Small Business

🔒With new CEO, $26.5M capital raise, New Haven startup in race for quantum computing supremacy

Scientists at Quantum Circuits Inc. are working to develop and bring to market the first practical quantum...

Accounting

🔒Greater Hartford’s largest accounting firms are increasingly being led by women

When Susan Jackson took the reins as managing partner at KPMG’s Hartford office in May, she became...

Energy

🔒With new leader, CT Wind Collaborative looks to build regional offshore wind corridor

In late April, at the largest wind energy conference in the Americas, Chief Manufacturing Officer Paul Lavoie felt a new vibe: CT was establishing itself as a leader in wind turbine technology and energy procurement.

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🔒Southeastern CT officials see opportunities to grow the state’s ‘blue economy’

The $310 million State Pier Terminal in the Port of New London isn’t much to look at.In...

Economic Development

🔒Historic New Haven mill site approved for major apartment redevelopment goes up for sale

As a slew of new residential and mixed-use developments continue popping up throughout downtown New Haven, the...

Nonprofits

🔒New Girl Scouts of CT CEO Spearman brings corporate leadership experience, as nonprofit caters to a new generation

The Girl Scouts of Connecticut is entering a new era with lofty goals of trying to redefine...

Politics & Policy

🔒2024 bill tracker: Here are business-related proposals that passed or failed during this year’s legislative session

State lawmakers debated dozens of bills during the 2024 legislative session that would potentially impact businesses. Some were...

Politics & Policy

🔒Business groups pan 2024 legislative session

The head of Connecticut’s largest trade organization said the legislative session was disappointing for the business community,...

Insurance

Trinity Health Of NE, UnitedHealthcare battling over new contract

Trinity Health Of New England and UnitedHealthcare are publicly fighting over a new contract to replace an...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Personal injury law firm RisCassi & Davis moving out of Hartford

RisCassi & Davis, the Hartford-based personal injury law firm, said Thursday it plans to relocate its main...

Economic Development

🔒Slingshot gallery seeks permit for Bristol location

“This is not the Bart Simpson version of slingshot.” That’s the disclaimer offered by Andrew “Andy” Cislo, Ph.D.,...

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