Wiggin and Dana’s Robert M. Langer, a senior counsel in the firm’s Hartford office and co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Technology Disputes Practice Group, and New Haven Partner, Kim E. Rinehart, chair of the firm’s Class Action Defense Practice Group, have co-authored the 2025-2026 Edition of “Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices, Business Torts and Antitrust,” Vol. 12 of the Connecticut Practice Series, just
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Caveat Venditor – The Connecticut General Assembly Has Added Seven New Per Se CUTPA Violations
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At the close of the 2025 Connecticut General Assembly’s legislative session, Connecticut lawmakers created seven new per se violations[1] of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act[2] (“CUTPA”) and granted exclusive authority to the Connecticut Attorney General to enforce the existing CUTPA per se violation under the precipitating emergency statute.[3] One new per se violation became effective on July 1, 2025. Two others…
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The Connecticut Supreme Court issued a ruling yesterday in Soto v. Bushmaster Firearms International, et al. that may greatly expand the reach of Connecticut’s principal consumer protection and business litigation statute, the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (“CUTPA”), to include business conduct not previously generally understood to be subject to CUTPA. CUTPA is Connecticut’s version of the Federal Trade Commission Act, but unlike the FTC…
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Wiggin and Dana proudly announces the release of the Unfair Trade Practices (Vol. 12, Connecticut Practice Series) 2006 Pocket Part. The 300 page pocket part contains an extensive discussion of the “unfairness doctrine” that is considered “must reading” for practitioners in the field. The Pocket contains a new antitrust chapter, Chapter 9, not found in the original book.
The co-authors of the Unfair Trade Practices…
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