Judge Administratively Closes Suit Against Insurance Agent After Settlement Announced

(March 12, 2024, 9:14 AM EDT) -- HARTFORD, Conn. — The same day parties announced that they reached a settlement “subject to the parties’ negotiation and execution of a mutually acceptable settlement agreement,” a federal judge in Connecticut administratively closed the insurer’s lawsuit alleging that an insurance agent’s failure to include exclusions in an insurance policy resulted in it paying more than $1 million in legal fees and expenses to settle an underlying worker injury lawsuit....