A key amendment to the state’s prevailing wage laws was passed by the General Assembly last night (June 3) as part of the passage of the comprehensive State Budget Implementer Bill (Bill No. 7187). The amendment helps resolve a…
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/ Construction Law, Environmental Law, Labor & Employment Law, Real Estate - Commercial, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Litigators handling disputes that extend across state lines know that obtaining discovery can be cumbersome. Fortunately, Connecticut has taken steps to streamline this process. …
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws
Late last week, Governor Lamont announced that the Commissioner of the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), Deidre Gifford, plans to retire from state service in June. No successor was named. …
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/ Health, Insurance
The IRS has announced the 2026 cost-of-living adjustments to the applicable dollar limits for health savings accounts (HSAs), high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), and excepted benefit health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs)…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
Our recent article in Physicians Practice outlines 10 Dos and Don’ts for physicians and other practitioners to take into account when deciding whether to establish a direct primary care (DPC) practice…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Insurance
Certain transactions between employee benefit plans and “parties in interest” are prohibited under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA)…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee. …
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee…
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/ Education Law, Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
With the Connecticut General Assembly in the home stretch of the 2025 legislative session, the following noteworthy property tax bills have been voted out of committee for consideration and possible action by both chambers of…
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/ Agriculture, Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
The wildfires in Southern California earlier this year were another sobering reminder of the devastating impact of natural disasters on local communities, and Connecticut is certainly not immune…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
Prior to its March 25, 2025 deadline, the Connecticut General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee likely finished up its work for this legislative session and approved a final flurry of bills that would generally…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Senate Bill No. 1556 has been introduced proposing to create a new Connecticut Appeals Board for Property Valuation (the “Board”). If the bill is adopted, the Board would be constituted this year to hear appeals from the…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
One of the questions that comes up often in the context of appeals is whether a successful party to an appeal may recover their attorney’s fees, and if so, under what circumstances. As usual, the short answer is our favorite…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts
Two bills that aim to advance the concept of a uniform capacity tax for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and battery energy storage systems (BESS) were the subject of a public hearing before the Connecticut General Assembly’s…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
On March 21, 2025 FinCEN published an interim final rule that eliminates “beneficial ownership information” (BOI) reporting requirements for all domestic companies…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
