The Financial and Revenue Services Section (“Section”) provides legal services to several state agencies, including the Department of Banking, the Department of Insurance, the Department of Revenue Services, the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Office of Policy and Management, the Office of Health Strategy, and the State Insurance Risk Management Board. The Section handles litigation in federal and state courts for these agencies, including regulatory enforcement actions, administrative appeals, actions requiring the defense of state laws, and in proceedings before the Freedom of Information Commission and the Claims Commissioner. The Section provides advice to the agencies it represents on a wide variety of legal and regulatory issues that arise in their daily operations, including the review of agency contracts and regulations for legal sufficiency.

In addition, the Section focuses on consumer financial protection by conducting investigations, leading multistate enforcement committees, negotiating settlements, commencing litigation, and drafting regulatory and other comment letters. Areas of focus include financial services, securities regulation, consumer lending, residential mortgage loan origination and servicing, for-profit education, student loan servicing, and debt collection.

The Section is also responsible for a variety of tobacco-related matters including enforcement of the Master Settlement Agreement (“MSA”) with more than forty participating tobacco product manufacturers. The Section ensures that Connecticut continues to receive the monetary payments it is owed under the MSA from participating manufacturers, that those manufacturers comply with the public health provisions of the MSA, that nonparticipating manufacturers selling cigarettes in Connecticut make their requisite escrow deposits for Connecticut’s benefit, and that all tobacco product manufacturers abide by other requirements of state and federal law.