2024 Press Releases

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• 9/24/2024 Attorney General Tong Releases Formal Opinion Regarding 2024 Budgeting Process

  Attorney General William Tong today released Formal Opinion 2024-002 addressing the legislature’s 2024 budgeting process.

• 9/20/2024 Attorney General Tong Announces $1.7 Million False Claims Settlement With Enzo Clinical Labs

  Attorney General William Tong today announced a $1,729,977 settlement with Enzo Biochem, Inc. and its subsidiary Enzo Clinical Labs, Inc., resolving allegations that the lab overbilled the Connecticut Medicaid program for testing services in violation of the state False Claims Act.

• 9/18/2024 Attorney General Tong Supports Bridgeport/Stratford Efforts to Provide Relief for Success Village Residents

• 9/17/2024 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Instagram Teen Accounts

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding Meta’s new Instagram Teen Accounts. Meta announced today they will be rolling out new accounts for teens ages 13-17.

• 9/16/2024 Attorney General Tong, Consumer Counsel Petition for State Review of Iberdrola Move to Take Avangrid Fully Private

  Attorney General William Tong and Consumer Counsel Claire E. Coleman today filed a petition with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority seeking state review of the proposed acquisition by Iberdrola of all remaining shares of Avangrid. Iberdrola is a Spain-based multinational conglomerate that owns 81.6 percent of United Illuminating, Southern Gas and Connecticut Natural Gas, as well as utilities in Maine, Massachusetts and New York. Iberdrola has moved to purchase all remaining shares, removing Avangrid as a publicly traded company.

• 9/10/2024 Attorney General Tong, Bipartisan Coalition Back Warning Labels for Social Media Platforms

  In a bipartisan letter today to Congress, Attorney General William Tong and 41 other attorneys general called on lawmakers to pass legislation requiring a U.S. surgeon general warning on all algorithm-driven social media platforms.

• 9/6/2024 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Insurance Rate Increases

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding rate increases approved today by the Connecticut Insurance Department for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, ConnectiCare and United/Oxford plans available on the individual and small group market, both on and off the state-sponsored exchange.

• 9/4/2024 Attorney General Tong Announces $425,000 Settlement with Hell Fire Armory Following Illegal Ghost Gun Sales in Connecticut

  Attorney General William Tong today announced a $425,000 settlement with Hell Fire Armory following illegal ghost gun sales in Connecticut.

• 8/30/2024 Attorney General Tong Files Amicus Brief in Support of Florida Law that Prohibits Individuals Under 21 from Purchasing Firearms

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit urging that court to affirm the lower court’s decision to uphold Florida’s law prohibiting individuals under the age of 21 from purchasing firearms.

• 8/28/2024 Attorney General Tong Announces $1.7 Million False Claims Settlement with Family Dentistry of Bridgeport, Hartford and Stamford Over Prohibited Patient Recruiting Fees

  Attorney General William Tong and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut Vanessa Roberts Avery today announced a $1.7 million settlement agreement with Family Dentistry of Bridgeport, Family Dentistry of Hartford, Family Dentistry of Stamford (collectively known as the Family Dentistry Entities) and owners Stanislav Gintautas, DDS and Tatiana Agababaeva, DDS, resolving allegations that they violated state and federal False Claims Act statutes through prohibited fees paid to a “patient recruiting” company

• 8/26/2024 Attorney General Tong Reaches Agreement with Northwell Health and Nuvance Health to Preserve Labor & Delivery Services at Sharon Hospital and Strengthen Access to Local Healthcare in Western Connecticut

  Attorney General William Tong today announced an agreement with Northwell Health, Inc. and Northwell Healthcare, Inc. (collectively “Northwell”) and Nuvance Health (Nuvance) to preserve labor and delivery services at Sharon Hospital and to strengthen access to local healthcare in Western Connecticut, resolving the antitrust investigation into the proposed affiliation between the two hospital systems.

• 8/23/2024 Attorney General Tong Joins Lawsuit Against RealPage Inc. for Alleged Antitrust Violations

  Attorney General William Tong and the United States Department of Justice, together with the Attorneys General of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against RealPage Inc. for its unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market for commercial revenue management software that landlords use to price apartments.

• 8/15/2024 Attorney General Tong Calls on Insurance Department to Reject Unjustified Rate Increase Requests

  In a letter sent to Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais, Attorney General William Tong argued that rate increases sought by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, ConnectiCare, and United/Oxford are unsupported by evidence and must be rejected.

• 8/13/2024 Attorney General Tong Joins Multistate Coalition to Secure $4.5 Million from Biotech Company for Failing to Protect Health Data

  Attorney General William Tong, along with the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey, today secured $4.5 million from Enzo Biochem, Inc. (Enzo) for failing to adequately safeguard the personal and private health information of its patients.

• 8/5/2024 Attorney General Tong Statement on Decision in Google Antitrust Case

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement following today’s decision in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruling that Google illegally maintained an online monopoly in the online search market.