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MAY 13, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 19

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From left: Len Fasano and Gov. Ned Lamont

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Conflict in Connecticut LAMONT, DEMS AT ODDS OVER SOME BUDGET ITEMS; GOP QUESTIONS GOV’S FORTITUDE

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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s negotiations over the state budget continue, Gov. Ned Lamont is apparently facing some opposition not just from Republicans but also from fellow Democrats.

The Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee has approved a $1.3 billion revenue increase, funded in part by a two-percentage-point increase on capital gains earnings — from 6.99% to 8.99% — for individuals whose total earnings from all sources exceed $500,000 ($1 million for couples), something Democrats said could raise $262 million a year but that Lamont has opposed.

The committee’s plan would also maintain the hospital tax, which will bring in an estimated $516 million that was previously scheduled to decrease. The state’s hospitals have been vocal about their opposition to the tax and expressed hope following Lamont’s election that a compromise could be worked out.

The committee’s plan also seeks to supersede the governor’s proposed 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened drinks with a 1 cent sales tax increase for restaurant food and prepared meals.

The committee also favors establishing a 6.35% tax on retail recreational marijuana sales, with an additional 3% local tax that could be imposed in juris-

dictions that allow cannabis businesses to operate.

Marijuana transfers from growers would also be taxed at $35 per ounce. Lamont has said he favors legalizing recreational marijuana as a means of raising revenue.

The Finance Committee also approved a 10-cent charge for plastic bags, which would raise $29 million to $32 million, something that Lamont has also supported.

The committee’s budget would also commit a larger portion of the motor vehicle sales tax to the state’s Special Transportation Fund than Lamont has proposed.

“This budget contains much more than a tax on the wealthy,” Senate Republican President Pro Tempore » CONNECTICUT

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HOW TO PROVE YOU’RE NOT HIRED, FIRED OR FORCED TO RETIRE BECAUSE OF YOUR AGE

BY JONATHAN PERKINS Contributing Writer

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f you are over 40 years old, age discrimination at work may start with teasing comments from co-workers like, “Must be nice to be so close to retirement,” but it’s no joke when you lose a job on the basis of your age, not your ability. However, proving that you were a victim of age discrimination in the workplace has become increasingly difficult.

Age discrimination is illegal at any stage of employment, including during hiring, promotions, raises and layoffs. The law also prohibits workplace harassment because of age by co-workers, supervisors or clients.

These protections fall under The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) that promotes employment of older persons (over age 40) based on their ability rather than age and prohibits arbitrary age discrimination in employment. The ADEA applies to employers that have at least 20 employees. Also prohibited are mandatory retirement ages with a few exemptions, such as airline pilots and public safety workers.

But the 2009 Supreme Court case, Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., raised the bar for proving age discrimination. Instead of merely showing that age was a contributing factor in an employer’s decision to fire, demote or refuse » DISCRIMINATION

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Business Council seeks to strengthen relationships between businesses via Supplier Connection event

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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hile landing a contract with a large corporation or organization can rapidly accelerate a smaller business’ growth, cracking that nut can be challenging. Even when they’re not in direct competition, each side can distrust the other, often through a misunderstanding of what they can do for each other.

But the Connecticut Supplier Connection, headed by the Business Council of Fairfield County, seeks to correct those misconceptions and help businesses form mutually beneficial relationships, in part through its Supplier Growth Summit.

The state of Connecticut became the first regional growth partner on the IBM portal Supplier Connection in 2016. Later that year, IBM brought four additional regional growth partners onto the Supplier Connection platform. In 2017 the BCFC co-hosted the first Supplier Growth Summit with IBM. The corporation pulled out of hosting the portal in 2018.

But based on its belief that Connecticut suppliers needed national exposure to buyers throughout the U.S. to ensure their growth and success, the BCFC soldiered on, launching the Connecticut Supplier Connection with a new registration portal via technolo�y from provider Supplier.io.

“We started three years ago with zero suppliers” in the CSC

Ridgefield contractor pleads guilty to antitrust, fraud charges

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Gary Breitbart, program director of the Connecticut Supplier Connection (standing), leads a panel on cybersecurity at last year’s Connecticut Supplier Connection Growth Summit. Seated, from left: Bruce Carlson, then-CEO and president of the Connecticut Technology Council; Deb McFadden, national director of business development at Stronger International; Will Farmer, owner and president of Convergent Mission Solutions; and Lyle Liberman, chief operating officer at JANUS Associates.

database, BCFC Director, Growth Company Advisory Services Gary Breitbart, who oversees the initiative, said. “Last year we saw a 90% growth in registered suppliers, which puts us at nearly 300 — and we’ll pass that number this year.”

The CSC network — which also includes the Connecticut Procurement Technical Assistance Program, the Small Business Development Center, the Small Business Administration, the Connecticut Technolo�y Council and others — has some 1.5 million buyers and suppliers in its database, Breitbart added.

Hundreds are expected at the Connecticut Supplier Growth Summit at the Stamford Marriott on May 21, which combines the expected trade fair, panel discussions and a keynote address — this year by Kent Johnson, aftermarket supply chain director at Stratfordbased Sikorsky — with “Match Maker Meetings,” a kind of “speed

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idgefield resident and insulation contractor Michael S. Flynn has pleaded guilty in Bridgeport Superior Court for his role in a number of bid-rigging schemes in violation of antitrust laws, and of engaging in criminal fraud on insulation contracts.

Flynn’s plea marks the second conviction in the ongoing investigation, which last month snagged Gary S. Devoe, a senior branch manager at Oxford-based BC Flynn Contracting Corp., of which Michael Flynn is principal.

According to court documents, from October 2011 through March 2018, Flynn conspired with other insulation contractors to rig bids and engage in fraud on contracts

dating” approach wherein small business suppliers and larger company buyers are paired off for a series of some 140 separate introductory talks. However, Breitbart cautioned, anyone planning on leaving the confab with signatures on new contracts might want to temper their expectations.

Breitbart, who is also the Summit’s program manager, said the Summit will be of particular importance this year, as contract pipelines and backlogs are growing at such companies as Pratt & Whitney, Electric Boat, Sikorsky, Stanley Black & Decker and Medtronic.

Of special interest this year, he said, will be a discussion entitled “How Technolo�y Is Changing the Supply Chain Process.” Scheduled to speak are John Ferraioli, national practice director, digital supply networks at Deloitte, and Edward Lazzari, procurement manager, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Northern New England.

“It’s to make sure that these smaller companies are, as my kids like to say, ‘woke,’ ” Breitbart said.

“We want to make sure that we wake them up to the fact that supply chain technolo�y is changing more rapidly than they may realize. We want to explain what they can do to have an impact and stay competitive with all the changes happening in digital marketplaces, e-procurement, spend analytics, big data and blockchain.”

Another topic being considered at the Summit is the fact that some companies are looking to grow their supplier roster while others are shrinking the number they are using. Breitbart said that dichotomy is due to corporate philosophy: Some firms prefer to rely on a small, tight-knit number of suppliers while others feel there’s more flexibility — and potentially more innovation — to be had by working with a greater number of allies.

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for installing insulation around pipes and ducts on construction projects at universities, hospitals and other public and private entities in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts.

The conspirators discussed prices and agreed on bids that inflated prices by at least 10%. In order to conceal their actions, the conspirators perpetrated the bid-rigging and fraud schemes using burner phones and an encrypted disappearing messaging app.

U.S. Attorney John H. Durham for the District of Connecticut noted that the FBI and the Department of Defense’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service are also handling the investigation.

The antitrust charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $1 million for individuals. The fraud conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Those fines may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.

In addition to his guilty plea, Flynn has agreed to pay restitution to the victims and to resolve civil forfeiture cases connected to the criminal charges. Flynn agreed to settle the pending forfeiture action on his home for $327,500 and to forfeit all of his seized bank accounts.

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Fairfield University turns on telehealth in nursing school lecture

BY PHIL HALL

platform that is triple-encrypted in a simulation lab, with our students getting real-time experience with virtual visits with live patients.”

Encryption is a key element to telehealth, she added, noting the technolo�y needs to consider the basics of patient safety and security while also meeting the latest HIPAA compliance mandates.

One area that is also evolving involves reimbursement of telehealth services, with Fathi pointing out changes are coming, though perhaps not at a rapid pace. She stated the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) previously “would only reimburse for telehealth services that were face to face, synchronous and live and in areas that were designat-

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or its annual EDICT Grant Program lecture on April 29 at the Egan School of Nursing, Fairfield University called on Joelle Fathi, clinical associate professor in the University of Washington School of Nursing, to offer the presentation “We Have Arrived: Preparing Healthcare Providers for Collaborative Practice and Programmatic Advancement of Telehealth.” Fathi’s presence at the university was designed to offer insight into a subject that is not as common in Connecticut as it is in other states. A survey by FAIR Health placed Connecticut among the bottom five states in 2017 for telehealth claim lines as a percentage of all medical claim lines.

Fathi has seen rapid advances in the cost-effectiveness and digital sophistication of telehealth services in health care.

“Historically, the technolo�y has been expensive,” she noted. “But as we’ve progressed, it has rapidly become much easier to use and cheaper to invest in.

Five years ago, I started a telehealth clinic in Seattle and the equipment was much more bulky, space occupying, expensive, clunky, not as streamlined and it had its quirks in terms of connectivity. Just jumping three or four years ahead, the software is so much more adaptable and there is more interoperability on a multitude of devices, including smartphones.”

The American Hospital Association estimated that 76% of U.S. hospitals use telehealth, but Fathi — who serves on the American Nurses Association Telehealth/ Connected Health Committee — observed that telehealth spans a variety of modalities ranging from face-to-face consultations or information exchanges that do not require real-time communications. What percentage of telehealth is being used for which particular practices is unclear, Fathi added, although she observed “we know the uptake is expeditious.”

In her lecture, Fathi noted how her university was preparing the next generation of nurses to become experts in understanding how telehealth fits into today’s health care environment.

“We are teaching our nursing students what the standards are in terms of modality of clinical practice, what the foundational requirements are as well as practice considerations — state licensure, what it means to practice across state lines and how to protect yourself from liability while ensuring it is a safe environment for patients,” she continued.

“There are various approaches to that.

In the School of Nursing, we’re working on didactic training and skill-based learning in the lab on a real telehealth

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ed as health professional shortage areas, such as rural areas. They are beginning to recognize other areas that are in great need, like telemental health, dialysis centers for people who are in kidney failure, so they are slowly but surely expanding the cadre of services they are willing to reimburse. Medicaid is administered state by state, but the Medicaid plans across the U.S. have largely followed behind CMS.” As for private health care insurers, Fathi said they have “increasingly gotten on board for reimbursement. However, state-by-state reimbursement for in-person visits in the clinic versus synchronous visits in the telehealth setting have not been equitably reimbursed.”

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Awesome Toys and Gifts looks to live up to its new name in Westport

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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ick Tarzia had to come up with a name when he decided to open a second toy store. Fortunately, his younger customers had the solution.

“Most kids, when they come into the store, yell out ‘Awesome!’ when they see what we have. They named it,” Tarzia laughed.

So it was that the 6,200-square-foot Awesome Toys and Gifts opened at 429 Post Road East in Westport on March 30, with the 5,000-square-foot Stamford store at 970 High Ridge Road also taking the new moniker.

“There’d been a void in that area when it came to toy stores,” the Stamford resident said of Westport,

“especially after the Toys ‘R’ Us closed in Norwalk.

There’d been a small toy store in Westport, but nothing of any significance for a while.”

Awesome in Westport includes a coffee bar and will feature a number of events — Pokemon tournaments being particularly popular — to make it more of a destination than a simple retail operation, Tarzia said, noting that a similar transition is taking place at the Stamford location.

“We really want it to be more of a community gathering place,” he said. “This way mom and dad can spend an hour, hour-and-ahalf here relaxing or working on their laptops while the kids are exploring the toys. It’s been done in bookstores for years, but not so much in toy stores.

“We want people to feel

that it’s their store,” he continued. “We’re the stewards of it, and we plan to be very reactive to the customers’ wants and needs. I believe this really is the next generation of retail.”

Tarzia recalled the days when he ran an office supply business.

“That was in 1988” at the Stamford address, he said.

“Then the retail world started changing and in 1991 it became a stationery store and a few years later, a toy business.” That atypical transition was spurred by a phone call from Wiltonbased toy company Melissa & Doug asking him to sell its toys on a three-month trial.

“Toys weren’t even on my radar,” Tarzia recalled.

“But they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, so I thought, ‘What the hell, I’ll give it a shot.’ Then we started selling the toys as soon as they

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came in, so it didn’t take a lot to make the switch.”

Toy fads come and go, but “Legos are always hot.

They never go out of style,” he said. Tween girls represent an especially lucrative sector, as demonstrated by the fact that all things BTS, the seven-member South Korean boy band, are flying off the shelves. Tarzia is also expecting big things when “Toy Story 4” opens in June.

Business at the new store has been pretty close to awesome, Tarzia said. “We’re happy to have been welcomed into the Westport neighborhood and we’ll continue trying to be the toy store they want us to be.”

Tarzia said he would like to open “a lot of stores” in Fairfield and Westchester counties, though he has no specific plans for further expansion at the moment.

BLT creates pop-up ‘social destination’ in Norwalk

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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he “Live, Work, Play” community model has become a common enough refrain around the country, including in Fairfield County.

But Building & Land Technolo�y (BLT), one of the area’s major developers, is taking the “Play” concept a step further by announcing the opening of a new “social destination,” Junction at North Seven, which opened May 2 at 87 Glover Ave. in Norwalk.

A former warehouse, the pop-up party space features an indoor beer garden and food hall, which will be open Wednesdays through Fridays from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.

BLT Chairman Carl Kuehner noted that North Seven — which is being marketed as “Connecticut’s Premier Pop-up Market,” the first of its kind — is

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located across from the Merritt 7 train station with easy access to I-95 and the Merritt Parkway.

“Ultimately what we’re trying to build is an ecosystem,” Kuehner said.

“What we want to do is tie in Merritt 7’s office tenants with Glover Avenue to create another urban village, similar to (Stamford’s) Harbor Point.”

North Seven has over 30,000 square feet and is situated next to a large parking lot that the Stamford developer established last year. Food trucks scheduled to ply their wares at the site include Tap Truck New England, Cowabunga (burgers), El Placerito Tacos, Hapa (American/Asian Pacific), Carmela’s Italian Kitchen and Lobstercraft.

Additional vendors are encouraged to apply on the North Seven website.

Kuehner said he hopes to turn the Glover Avenue neighborhood into “the ulti-

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Patrons gather for the grand opening of Junction at North Seven May 2 on Glover Ave. in Norwalk. Photo by Erik Trautmann/Hearst Connecticut Media.

mate live, work, play location” — perhaps a tall order, given Harbor Point’s success.

He noted that the Stamford site’s first restaurant was also a pop-up beer garden, “which brought in lots of people. We surveyed the people living and visiting there, and

found that this is the kind of thing that can build out the kind of ecosystem we’re talking about.”

BLT has developed more than 3,000 apartments at Harbor Point, which recently marked its 10th anniversary, and

recently received approval from Stamford for two more buildings — provisionally known as P3 and P6 — at Harbor Point, each consisting of 180 apartment units.

BLT is also working with Charter Communications,

which plans to build a second building next to its new headquarters already under construction at 406 Washington Blvd. at Gateway at Harbor Point.

And in April it announced that Diageo is moving its North American headquarters from Norwalk to approximately 40,000 square feet at 200 Elm St. in Stamford, bringing along some 250 jobs.

Since BLT relaunched the renovated property in 2017, 200 Elm has become home to Henkel Consumer Goods Inc. — which relocated its North A merican Consumer Goods headquarters there from Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2017 — RSM and Tudor Investment Management Co., among others.

“We’re glad Diageo is staying in the BLT portfolio,” Kuehner said.

“We’re very positive about Stamford — and about Norwalk as well.”

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WCHN’s new cancer chief sees big opportunities in merged system

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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igger may not always be better, but there can be strength in numbers.

That has been one of the axioms espoused by Western Connecticut Health Network and Health Quest when discussing the reasons for their merger, which was finalized in April. The resultant entity, Nuvance Health — a seven-hospital, $2.4 billion enterprise — will serve 1.5 million residents across Connecticut and New York and be staffed by more than 12,000 employees.

One of those employees is Dr. Margo Shoup, formerly medical director of cancer services at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, who joined WCHN in late April as the new network chair of its cancer service line. In that role she will provide strategic and clinical leadership for all aspects of WCHN’s cancer services, including diagnostic imaging, genetic counseling, medical oncolo�y, radiation oncolo�y, surgical oncolo�y, research and clinical trials, and support services.

The merged system’s huge geographical footprint was one of the driving factors in Shoup’s decision to move east, she said.

“This is a very unique opportunity,” Shoup said. “We have the means to take programs that are already strong and make them even better, by expanding our reach and our resources, and to maintain a world-class cancer program right here in this region.”

From a patient’s point of view, Shoup said, “We will have more hospitals with a greater diversity of ideas, which will

Margo Shoup, M.D.

help us focus on best practices at each hospital,” which consists of Danbury, Norwalk, New Milford and Sharon hospitals in Connecticut and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in New York.

“Each hospital does certain things really well,” Shoup continued. “Now we’ll be able to take those things and implement them across the entire system. It’s very exciting.”

From a business standpoint, Shoup said the merger “allows us to access more resources to build those systems, as opposed to if each hospital was a standalone.

Clinical trials, high-end technolo�y — there’s always something coming along that hospitals, doctors and staff are interested in. We will now have the buying power to take advantage of those across the entire system.”

Shoup will also develop multidisciplinary disease management teams, consisting of specialists and services dedicated to specific

types of cancer.

“Cancer and its treatment are so complicated that it’s becoming more and more important to have experts in the field,” she said.

“By having, for example, a breast cancer surgeon working side by side with medical and radiation oncologists who focus on breast cancer, the patient will be receiving even better care and treatment than before. There are so many changes coming every month that it’s hard to keep up on them all, unless you’re completely focused on a particular area.”

Shoup will also manage the cancer care collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that launched at Norwalk Hospital in 2017.

Shoup said that at Northwestern she spent 10 years in the research, education and program development fields. She then transitioned to direct care for patients — something she reiterated was an important factor in accepting her new post.

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Len Fasano said. “This includes higher taxes on everyone. It steals transportation dollars, further hurting Connecticut’s infrastructure and bankrupting our Special Transportation Fund. It moves our state in the opposite direction of the progress we have made over the last two years in our bipartisan budgets.

“The proposal we have before us today is exactly what Democrats tried to pass two years ago. They couldn’t pass it then, but now that they are back in power they are going right back to their old playbook, turning to the tax-and-spend policies that have devastated our state before.”

The Republican leader also maintained that the committee’s budget plan “destroys Gov. Lamont’s ‘debt diet’ and implements a capital gains tax the governor repeatedly said he would not support. Yet again we are seeing the governor get pushed around by members of his own party. Is he going to take a stand on anything, or is he going to continue operating in fear of Democrat legislators?”

Lamont’s director of communications Maribel La Luz shot back with a statement of her own.

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to hire them in the first place, plaintiffs now have to show evidence that age was the only factor in the decision. This has put a higher burden on older workers alleging age discrimination than on those alleging discrimination based on race, sex, national origin or religion.

In Connecticut, lawmakers are taking steps to reduce age discrimination in hiring by proposing Bill No. 6113 to prohibit asking on an employment application about an applicant’s date of birth or date of graduation.

AARP research in 2018 found that more than 60 percent of workers age 45 and older have seen or experienced age discrimination, and 76 percent say they consider age discrimination to be a major obstacle to finding a new job. Also, 1 in 4 older workers have been subjected to negative comments about their age from supervisors or co-workers.

Two pending local cases involve women who say they were let go because of their age despite having received positive work reviews. IBM Sales Director Terry Keebaugh, 57, lost her job and a huge commission. She

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Left: Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Len Fasano meeting with residents at the Wallingford Senior Center last year.

Right: Gov. Ned Lamont (left) after presenting the Milken Educator Award to art teacher Michael Zaba at the Louis Toffolon Elementary School in Plainville in January.

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claims there is a persistent policy of laying off older workers at the company. Professor of business law Sharlene McEvoy, 67, said she was replaced without notice as the director of the prelaw advising program at Fairfield University by a person 30 years younger.

So what can you do if your legal employment rights have been violated?

• File a charge with the Connecticut Commission of Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO). A claim must be filed within 180 days of the discriminatory act.

• Save communications like memos, letters, emails and phone messages that contain biased language. Also make note of comments by co-workers that demonstrate age bias against you. For example, “I know it’s harder for people of your generation to understand new technolo�y.”

• Get a copy of your employment contract (if there is one) and highlight what was not followed to serve as proof of discrimination.

• Compare how you were treated differently from younger co-workers for promotions, layoffs, etc.

• Find any prior age discrimination lawsuits against your employer. While they may not prove your case, they may help in a settlement situation.

• Gather documents related to your salary and fringe benefits, including W-2 and 1099 forms, statements showing 401(k) plan contributions and profit-sharing plans and insurance (life, health and disability).

• If you think you have been wrongly terminated, have a lawyer review everything your former employer asked you to sign before leaving your job. You have

ing is that someone who claims to be a fiscal hawk like Sen. Fasano is actually an evangelist for binge borrowing that devastates our state’s taxpayers and saddles generations to come,” she said. “If Sen. Fasano spent half as much time developing an honest revenue and spending plan rather than legislating via press release, we might all be able to come together and move our state forward.

“What would actually destroy the governor’s Debt Diet is Sen. Fasano’s $11.2 billion transportation loan that forces Connecticut residents to foot 100% of the bill. These cheap shots from the sidelines are straight out of Sen. Fasano’s tired playbook. What we’d really like to see is his budget book.”

But Fasano was not the only critic of the plan. In a statement to the press, Yankee Institute President Carol Platt Liebau said the proposals “demonstrate a disturbing inability to learn from the negative impact of past tax increases.

“As we’ve seen before, increasing Connecticut’s capital gains tax is likely to drive even more high-income residents from our state, thereby burdening those without the means to relocate with increased taxes, plummeting property values and fewer services,” Liebau said.

21 days from the time you’re fired to consider any severance package an employer has offered and just seven days to change your mind if you agreed to it.

In order to have a strong case, you will need evidence that your employer was motivated by discrimination when making an employment decision.

You also need to prove that you suffered damages as a result of the discrimination. In addition to lost wages, employees who have been discriminated against can also recover for the loss of benefits like insurance and profit sharing.

Don’t let the complex process of proving age discrimination deter you from seeking justice.

Ageism in the workplace can lead to unfair and illegal treatment that can be economically devastating. If you wish to pursue a claim, find a lawyer who will guide you through every step of the process.

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FACEs & PLACEs More than $400K raised at Maritime Aquarium gala Approximately $470,000 was raised at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk’s 20th annual gala on April 11 in support of its mission. The event, which welcomed 218 guests this year, is the largest annual fund-raiser for the South Norwalk attraction.

The highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Red Apple Award, which honors companies, organizations and individuals who share The Maritime Aquarium’s concern for the natural world and environmental education.

The 2019 recipient was the global insurance provider Chubb. Photos courtesy of The Maritime Aquarium.

1. Jeff Updyke (left), chief operating officer for Chubb’s North American field operations, accepts the Red Apple Award from Dave Truedson, the Aquarium’s chief operating officer.

2. Rich Hesselman (right), senior vice president, regional chief operating officer and New Haven branch manager for Chubb, holds the 2019 Red Apple Award. Sharing the moment were (from left): Donna Monks and Mark Fries, both of People’s United Insurance Agency; Dave Truedson of The Maritime Aquarium; and Jon Pensa of Chubb.

3. Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling and his wife, Lucia, with aquarium Trustee James Hurlock of New Canaan.

4. Encouraging safe interactions with animals were members of the Animal Husbandry department (from left): Kylie Williams, Samantha Sorbello, Ellen Riker (holding a hedgehog) and Marissa Mangiafico (holding a turtle).

5. Rachel Stein, the associate director of animal husbandry, displayed her talents on the cello.

6. Research scientist Dr. David Hudson.

7. Aquarium Trustee Richard Hokin of Darien (center) talks with Gillian and Will Graves of Rowayton.

8. Aquarium Trustee Clay Fowler of Pound Ridge, New York.

9. Lindsey Levine (right) shares a handheld display of jellyfish.

Looking on were (from left): Mark Fries of Peoples United Insurance Agency; Laura Skandera Trombley and George Estrada of the University of Bridgeport; and Michael Diamond of Premiere Maintenance Inc.

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Frontier Communications shed 734 jobs since January; at least another 280 cuts on the way

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN

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instripes, a chain of dining and entertainment venues that combine Italian-American cuisine and wine with full-service bowling lanes and bocce courts, is planning to open its first location in the area at Norwalk’s SoNo Collection.

Based in Northbrook, Illinois, Pinstripes also features event space for private parties, weekend live music and children’s play dates as well as hosting bowling and bocce clubs and leagues. Its menu features pasta, pizza, salads and sandwiches.

In partnership with Brookfield Properties, Pinstripes also plans to open in Durham, North Carolina, and Reston, Virginia.

“Our retail properties

Frontier Communications shed 734 jobs in the first quarter, also posting a total loss of $87 million in revenue, according to its latest quarterly results.

The Norwalk company’s consolidated revenue for the first quarter was $2.1 billion, compared with $2.12 billion in the fourth quarter and are a hub for daily life, and today’s consumer expects a great experience that features dining, entertainment and celebrates community,” said Sandeep Mathrani, CEO of Brookfield Properties and vice chairman of Brookfield Property Group. “This type of tenant offering has grown throughout our portfolio in recent years, and our partnership with Pinstripes is a natural collaboration that represents evolution in our

industry.”

“We are excited to work with Sandeep and his team to further transform the retail experience and offer our guests a magical venue to connect with each other,” said Pinstripes Founder/ CEO Dale Schwartz. “This partnership will further enable Pinstripes to accelerate its expansion plans of opening over 100 locations throughout the U.S. and overseas over the next several years.”

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On the heels of releasing its financial results, Frontier announced it was eliminating 280 nonunion positions at its Henrietta, New York, call center, effective July 31.

“We continue to focus on our long-term goals of improving revenue and

unit trends, realizing our transformation program targets, driving free cash flow and reducing leverage,” said Frontier President and CEO Dan McCarthy.

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AsK Andi Not an expert at ERP ERP is such an important decision. I don’t want to half-ass it. I’m not an expert at ERP. I want someone who is completely unbiased to help me �igure out what’s the best for the future of my business. I could easily spend 100 hours on it, but I don’t have time for that. I don’t want to make the decision by myself.

THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Let’s start by defining what is ERP and what it can do for any business. There are lots of folks who can provide advice on what to choose.

Start by defining what’s going to be right for your business. Go through a careful investigation process.

ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. That’s a fancy way to describe the various software systems that a company relies on to execute the work of the company. Every year small-business owners add more tech-

nolo�y: from 2010 to 2017 there was an 18% increase in tech among SMBs, a 30% increase in software spending and a total tech spend approaching $700 billion in 2017.

Growth in tech spending is practical. Updates in technolo�y create better ways for businesses to process and mine data. Measurable productivity and quality improvements stem from technolo�y and translate into bottom-line savings.

There’s still plenty of room for improvement. It’s

estimated that one-quarter of small businesses rely on less-efficient, error-prone manual solutions instead of implementing technolo�y.

Also, 80% of SMBs report that some portion of their information processing is manual despite having solutions available that they could implement.

When picking someone to help with your IT investigation, interview candidates to find out what services they offer and how they price. Ask them to describe in detail how they take companies like yours through a search process. Insist on talking with references who are just like you — same size, same industry, similar set of needs. Be sure to build a budget for the advisory services and be up-front about that budget.

Software vendors may have advisors, but the advice

will likely be biased. Many of the accounting, legal and consulting firms you already work with may have an opinion, but make sure they have carefully vetted those recommendations. There are technolo�y firms, especially those that operate managed-services businesses, that provide advice as part of their portfolio of services, some as part of a package they provide to their existing clients, others that offer a stand-alone service.

And then there are your peers. Look for the most advanced companies in your industry. Focus on firms that are twice your size. Find those companies that you don’t directly compete with and ask them to show you what they use and why.

Once you’ve picked an advisor, build a set of requirements. What do you

have now? What should you have in three to five years?

What automation do you want to implement? Which areas could benefit from upgrading existing tech? Get an advisor on board, right from the get-go, to help you define your goals. Evaluate how well you work with your chosen advisor. If it’s not working well for you, consider making a change.

If things go smoothly, keep going.

Build a list of systems and companies to look at and set up interviews.

Consider systems that “do it all” and multiple systems that can integrate into a complete solution. Your advisor should help set up these meetings, provide you with a decision-making checklist and provide their recaps as well. They should help you debate the pros and cons of the various solutions. And

if you wish, make sure they can follow through to help oversee the final selection and implementation of your chosen solution.

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: “Modern ERP: Select, Implement and Use Today’s Advanced Business Systems,” by Marianne Bradford.

Andi Gray is president of Strategy Leaders Inc., StrategyLeaders.com, a business-consulting firm that teaches companies how to double revenue and triple profits in repetitive growth cycles. Have a question for AskAndi? Wondering how Strategy Leaders can help your business thrive? Call or email for a free consultation and diagnostics: 877-238-3535 or AskAndi@StrategyLeaders. com. Check out our library of business advice articles at AskAndi.com.

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Yalies for Yalies Bulldog venture capital fund has Yalies suing Yalies

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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raduates of Yale University’s School of Management created Bulldog Innovation Group LLC in 2014 to enable Yalies to invest in Yalies, but the venture capital firm has devolved into Yalies suing Yalies.

EveresTV Inc., a Port Chester company controlled

by Jeffrey Feldman, class of 1995, sued Bulldog last month in federal court in White Plains, claiming that he was ousted as its managing director in violation of Bulldog’s rules.

“This is a case about power, control and manipulation under the guise of the corporate form,” his complaint states.

Bulldog struck first, in 2017, suing Feldman and EveresTV in Superior Court

in Stamford, claiming that Feldman had tried to form a competing venture fund and siphon off investors.

Feldman, of Greenwich, was hired in 2015 to run Bulldog. EveresTV invested $100,000, and he was designated as a founding member of the board of managers.

His job was to persuade Yale graduates and faculty members to invest in Bulldog’s Whitney Innovation Fund, and to use that capital to promote high-potential ventures by Yale graduates.

His federal lawsuit identifies, but does not name as defendants, four founding board members that he claims thwarted him: Robert Quartel Jr. (class of 1978), founder of Ntelx consulting firm in Washington, D.C.; Jay Readey (2004), a Flossmoor, Illinois, lawyer; Andrea Sehl (1981), a Kent, Connecticut,

management consultant; and Tom Halsey (1981), a former Exxon official in Dallas.

In 2016, the board amended Bulldog’s operating agreement. EveresTV was not notified of the meeting or allowed to vote, the complaint states, because board members created the “fiction” that Feldman had violated a no-competition requirement.

The board diluted EveresTV’s financial interests in Bulldog, the complaint states, stripped EveresTV of its voting rights, removed Feldman as a founding board member and fired Feldman as managing director of investments.

The complaint accuses Bulldog of minority shareholder oppression and demands that the venture capital firm be dissolved and liquidated.

EveresTV made similar allegations and demands in response to Bulldog’s lawsuit in Stamford. In July, the judge in that case ruled that Connecticut state court was not the place to consider dissolution of Bulldog, because the company was formed in Delaware and governed by Delaware law.

Bulldog’s complaint in Stamford claims that Feldman voluntarily withdrew as its managing director. He allegedly demanded three months of severance pay and said he would return Bulldog’s computers, passwords and documents once he was paid.

The lawsuit describes Feldman’s alleged demands as corporate ransom. The firm refused to pay severance, threatened legal action and got back its property.

Almost immediately after resigning, Bulldog

claims, Feldman “sought to create an investment fund that would compete directly with Bulldog,” and he allegedly pressured Whitney Fund investors to withdraw $585,000.

Feldman had violated the firm’s confidentiality, noncompetition and nonsolicitation rules, Bulldog claims. The board deemed that, under the rules, EveresTV had withdrawn as a member. It could retain its investment in Bulldog but could no longer vote as a member.

Feldman allegedly responded that he was not bound by Bulldog’s rules because it was EveresTV, not him personally, that signed the operating agreement.

Bulldog also claims that Feldman embarked on a campaign to disparage and injure the firm. He allegedly filed a complaint with the

Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing Bulldog’s fund administrator of helping the Whitney Fund abscond with capital.

Bulldog is demanding that Feldman and EveresTV immediately cease breaching the operating agreement and is asking for unspecified damages.

Feldman filed a new complaint in the Stamford court on March 1.

He accuses Quartel, Readey, Sehl and Halsey of abusing their positions as members of Bulldog’s executive committee. He denied forming a competing fund, and he claims that he was forced to resign as managing director and was defamed by the board members.

He also is demanding unspecified monetary damages.

A trial is scheduled for Oct. 1 in Stamford.

Former Bridgeport Mayor Nick Panuzio passes away at 83

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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ick Panuzio, who won the mayoralty of Bridgeport by the tightest of margins and went on to be an influential behind-the-scenes presence in Washington, D.C., passed away on May 3 at the age of 83.

Panuzio entered politics in the 1960s as a representative for Bridgeport’s 134th District. A Republican, he unsuccessfully challenged the Democrat incumbent Hugh Curran in the 1969 Bridgeport mayoral race, and returned in 1971 to eke out a victory of only nine votes.

Panuzio was re-elected in 1973 and his administration was responsible for establishing the Bridgeport Economic

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Development Corp., a public-private entity initially focused on bringing new use to industrial properties.

Panuzio unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1974 and opted not to seek a third term as mayor. He left Bridgeport with 55 days remaining in his term to become deputy administrator of the General Services Administration and commissioner of public buildings under President Gerald Ford.

After the Ford administration ended in 1977, Panuzio stayed in Washington as a political adviser, initially serving as the founder and manager of The Management Link and Panuzio Business Strategies. He created

Panuzio & Giordano Public Affairs in 2003, with offices in the Washington area and Hartford.

Although he never sought elected office again, Panuzio served as an adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush on urban affairs and later became chairman of the Talbot County Republican Central Committee in Maryland.

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim paid tribute to his predecessor, noting that his “commitment to the people continued throughout his life and most recently with his time serving on the Board of Trustees for the University of Bridgeport.

Nick’s contributions and kindness will be fondly remembered.”

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Painkiller protester takes on Purdue in Stamford

BY JOHN NICKERSON Hearst Connecticut Media Group

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Massachuset ts man came to Stamford on May 6 with his nearly 300 empty pill bottles that he collected for 15 years and set up his pill bottle sculpture outside Purdue Pharma headquarters on Tresser Boulevard to bring awareness of the addictive properties of the drugmaker’s products.

Worcester resident Frank Huntley, 51, said he came to Stamford to “save lives and open eyes.”

Huntley said he was hooked on OxyContin, which is made by Purdue Pharma, for a decade and a half and pointed to the sculpture of bottles with a plastic skull on top.

“Look, this was me for

15 years,” he said. “This drug controlled me every day, and every minute of my day, OK. For the last six years I have been trying to save myself.”

Huntley said he was going to try to stay in front of the building all day long.

Police showed up at about 8:35 a.m., a few minutes after he arrived, and told him that if he did not bother people and remained on the sidewalk he would be able to stay.

That was not the case in June 2018 when Massachusetts artist Domenic Esposito placed a colossal spoon as a symbol of what heroin addicts have to use to shoot the drug in front of Purdue Pharma’s building.

Esposito was arrested and his spoon was seized

by Stamford police. Esposito was allowed to enter a court

diversionary program and the 800-pound spoon was returned.

Many cities and states, including Connecticut, have sued Purdue Pharma over alleged deceptive marketing of its drugs like OxyContin, which many believe directly fueled the nationwide opioid epidemic.

Huntley said he was a painter and wallpaperer when he injured his shoulder and back. After two surgeries he was prescribed OxyContin and quickly became addicted.

“This could happen to any one of us and this is happening to us, thousands of us,” he said.

John Nickerson is a staff reporter with Hearst Connecticut Media. He can be reached at jnickerson@ stamfordadvocate.com.

Frank Huntley standing outside of Purdue Pharma on Tresser Boulevard with his sculpture, Pillman, which he made out of nearly 300 pill bottles that he was perscribed over a 15-year period by a doctor. Huntley said the pills are dangerous and addictive. Photo by John Nickerson/Hearst Connecticut Media.

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CONTRIBUTING WRITER | By Michael McGuire

Tips to help make walking more fun and effective

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ith the days getting warmer and longer, people can finally put on their shoes and experience the many health benefits of walking — which may be one of the simplest and best ways to exercise.

The American Heart Association encourages people, schools, workplaces and communities to get out and walk for at least 30 minutes and put themselves on the road to a healthier lifestyle.

Studies have shown walking more and sitting less may help people maintain a healthier weight, ward

off depression and prevent serious health issues like heart disease. And a report from Harvard Medical School concluded that walking can help curb sweet cravings, boost the immune system and ease joint pain.

Consider the following tips to help make walking more fun and effective.

THINK FIT

While many people aim for achieving an aggregate number of total steps each day, research shows that moving frequently throughout the day and taking at least one brisk, 30-minute

utes each day) and tenacity (at least 10,000 total steps per day). If those targets seem daunting, remember it helps to start slowly and build up over time.

FIND FRIENDS

walk also can have health benefits. That’s why people should think FIT, which stands for frequency (500 steps within seven minutes six times per day), intensity (3,000 steps within 30 min-

Walking can also double as a chance to socialize with friends, family or co-workers. Research shows there are several advantages to recruiting a workout friend, likely because that person can hold you accountable and offer support. And starting or joining a walking group at work or in your neighborhood can prove

helpful, too. Working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent compared to working out alone.

WALK WITH A WEARABLE

Studies show that people tend to overestimate how much they exercise and underestimate sedentary time. To help understand your actual activity patterns and, ideally, reinforce positive habits to support sustained change, consider using a wearable device.

This increasingly popular technolo�y has been shown to help people remain diligent in achieving those daily

step goals, while encouraging seemingly small healthy habits — each day — that can eventually translate to meaningful improvements.

EARN INCENTIVES

Many employers offer incentive-based wellness programs, including some that enable employees to earn more than $1,000 per year by meeting certain daily walking goals.

Similarly, there are websites that enable people to earn cash rewards for walking.

Michael McGuire is the CEO of UnitedHealthcare of New York.

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Self-funded ASO arrangements are flexible and may offer cost savings to employers. Containing financial risk, however, is a key concern.

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Stop loss insurance provides coverage for very high claims above a certain dollar amount. Employers tailor their coverage by choosing the type of stop loss that works best for them depending on the size of their company and the health, age and needs of their employees.

With a bundled, self-funded ASO arrangement, the insurance company maintains control of the plan components, including integrated stop loss, claims administration, pharmacy, network and disease management programs.

While it might sound like the perfect solution for self-funding, there are other cost containment strategies to consider beyond stop loss. That’s where the ASO arrangement comes in. It’s important that employers choose an administrator (often a health insurance company) that offers clinical and pharmacy management. And, one that stays on top of market and industry trends with an eye on new treatments and medicines that might help reduce costs.

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CONTRIBUTING WRITER | By Alok Sharan

Working to combat the opioid crisis: A local solution to a national epidemic

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he effects of the opioid crisis have been felt across the nation — from small towns to bustling cities. In 2017 there were upwards of 70,000 drug overdose deaths, the highest number for any single year in U.S. history.

To effect meaningful change when it comes to this epidemic, we must first understand one of its root causes — opioid overprescribing following surgery. We need to develop a comprehensive and unobstructed review of the situation and, in short, stop shying away from the glaring reality of the potential dangers of prescription opioids. Opioids are the most widely prescribed class of drugs in the U.S. and are considered the mainstay of postsurgical pain management, with nine in 10 patients receiv-

ing opioids after surgery.

Consequently, surgery has become an unintentional gateway to persistent opioid use, meaning patients are still taking these medications three to six months after their surgical procedure. It is imperative that surgeons and health care practitioners be more cognizant of their prescribing habits and, along with patients, become educated on effective nonopioid pain management options for use before, during and after surgery.

As a spine surgeon, I am conscious of my opioid prescribing habits and how I manage my patients’ postsurgical pain. Patients often assume spine surgery is an extremely painful procedure. However, with the use of new technologies and nonopioid options, this has changed. It is especially

important to me that I have conversations with patients about effective pain management options. To manage postsurgical pain and simultaneously limit opioid prescribing, I use a non-opioid option called Exparel.

It is a long-acting numbing medication injected during spine surgery that can provide patients with pain control during the first few days following surgery, when pain is often at its worst. In my experience, patients have reported a 75 percent reduction in postsurgical pain and — of the few patients who do require opioids — 70 percent stop use after just one week after surgery. This protocol has yielded a significant and measurable decrease in opioid use among patients while maintaining positive patient outcomes and satisfaction.

We have developed a program called Awake Spinal Fusion whereby we are able to limit the amount of narcotics that are given after surgery while expediting the recovery process. Awake Spinal Fusion involves making a very small incision in the skin which results in faster healing times, reduced postsurgical pain, less muscle injury and better cosmetic outcomes compared to traditional spinal fusion surgeries. In most cases, patients have recovered and are up and moving just a few hours after surgery.

At this point 50 percent of our patients are undergoing spinal fusion surgery and going home the same day.

Minimally invasive procedures and nonopioid options are becoming increasingly popular in the midst of the opioid epidem-

ic, as patients and health care practitioners look for new ways to manage pain without exposing patients to opioids after surgery.

Ending prescription drug abuse is easier said than done. Patient education is one of the most important and least discussed components of addressing this issue. Prior to performing a surgery, I make sure to discuss my pain management protocol and nonopioid options with each of my patients. Starting these conversations empowers my patients to be active participants in their surgical experience from start to finish. Pain relief is not a one-size-fits-all approach and it should not be treated as such. It’s vital we work together against tired rhetoric that characterizes opioids as the only effective option to treat

pain. Non-opioid options are available, effective and offer the additional benefit of eliminating the risks associated with taking prescription opioids without decreasing the quality of patient care.

The opioid epidemic has impacted our entire nation and left destruction in its path. While it will take time to rebuild and recover from the damage that has been done, we must take steps to create a stronger foundation. I believe that creating open patient-provider conversations on pain management, and the utilization of nonopioid options, are all building blocks for a better future.

Dr. Alok Sharan is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Westmed Medical Group and practices in Yonkers and New Rochelle. He can be reached at 914-831-4160.

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CONTRIBUTING WRITER | By David Ortiz

The growing need for navigation in cancer

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hen my father was diagnosed with cancer he couldn’t remember the name of the doctor who gave him the diagnosis. All he could recall was that he had an inoperable plum-shaped tumor wrapped around his aorta. Fearing the worst, it is nearly impossible to retain the details a doctor or caregiver shares.

The key is to learn how to be an advocate, not just in terms of treatment, but how to curb cancer costs.

Why? A cancer diagnosis is financially toxic.

While the rise in global health care costs outpaces wages and inflation, the average cost of anti-cancer drugs has reached four times the median household income.

Certain cancer therapies cost more than purchasing a house in many U.S. cities.

The skyrocketing pace of increases in cancer

care costs prompted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and private insurers to start a dialogue regarding new ways to reimburse for cancer care and how to reform our country’s health care system. The first step was the Centers’ Oncolo�y Care Model, introduced in 2016 to reward providers who deliver high-quality care while lowering costs through wiser spending. Through this model, a growing trend has been the introduction of clinical care navigators.

Clinical navigators hold the map to cancer treatments and are highly knowledgeable about the benefits that hospitals and insurance companies may provide to reduce the financial burden of cancer treatments. Acting as a guide, their experience provides patients with the clearest path to the best outcomes, care compliance,

timeliness and as a consequence, cost-efficient care.

Studies suggest that clinical navigation leads to improved side-effect screening and prevention, as well as longer-term cost reductions, primarily in early-stage cancers. Navigators also identify potential barriers for patients to comply with cancer treatment. On the other end of the care spectrum, navigators can intervene and help people with late-stage cancers avoid frequent hospital trips by helping them get the right care in the most appropriate setting. This also has significant cost-saving benefits.

This newly improved understanding of standardizing services and the value of people like navigators is essential for improving care and reducing costs.

A study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncolo�y Biolo�y

and Physics found that missing just two cancer radiation therapy appointments, even when the full course of treatment was completed, can lead to worse outcomes, including higher recurrence rates and lower overall survival. Failure to cure cancer, as my colleague, Dr. Shalom Kalnicki, says, is the biggest waste of economic resources in cancer care. The expenditures for cancer treatment for a recurrent cancer are close to six times what we spend the first time around and cure rates are more than eight times lower.

Access to a navigator program, in-house or via a contracted service, is a cost-effective layer of support that benefits everyone involved.

Employers and insurers are starting to see this value.

In a 2018 national survey of employer-sponsored health plans conducted by Mercer Consulting, employ-

ers spent 3.6% more in health benefits in 2017. The ones with fewer than 500 employees saw their costs rise by 5.4%. According to the Northeast Business Group on Health, employers report a level of complexity in managing employees’ cancer-related needs beyond that associated with any other type of disease or condition. A study in the American Journal of Managed Care found that 6.5% of a corporation’s total health care costs were spent on incremental care for cancer patients in 1997.

Employer opportunities to enhance services are emerging as payers like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and private insurers begin to adapt and spearhead new ways to make cancer care more efficient.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates the direct

medical costs for cancer in the U.S. were $80.2 billion in 2015. This cost is projected to hit $174 billion in 2020.

If we fail to address the needs of everyone impacted by cancer, we will alienate our patients and needlessly waste precious resources in cancer care. The time is now for hospitals, community-based organizations and insurers to work together and look at funding more resources like cancer navigators to improve care and reduce costs.

Dealing with cancer is complex. By working together, we can achieve the kind of high-quality, proactive care that people like my dad deserve and which will meet the needs required for the health care delivery system of tomorrow.

David Ortiz is the director of the Oncology Care Model at Montefiore Health System. He can be reached at daviorti@montefiore.org.

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THE 2019 WINNERS The Rising stars in Fairfield County Amanda Almonte Andy Cabell Godiva Cadena Kevin Caskin Roger Chappuis Thomas Cingari Jr. Michelle Coletti Sasha Collins John Corraro Evan Cygler Shannon Daniels Kate Dischino Jackie Essex Katia Garcon Robyn Goldenberg Angelica Gorrio Brian Higgins Christian Keane Rhonda Klein Marisa MacLean Joshua Marcus, M.D. Elisabeth Marrocolla Eddie Martinez Samantha Mauro Peter McSherry Amanda Meeson Erin Mercede Kelli Meyer Oliver Page Roberta Rich Suobo Richards Chloe Richland Charles Rocco Erick Russell Katherine Russian Emily Anne Scalise Raya Ward Josh Weinshank Angela Wong Laura Zap

At-HomeCare of CT Arthur Murray Dance Studio of Danbury Union Savings Bank People’s United Bank Family & Children’s Aid ShopRite Grade A Markets LMC, a Lennar Company The Center for Family Justice Barnum Financial Group Miller Motorcars encaptiv Americares Greenwich Hospital House of Katia Strategy Leaders Marinera CT Aditum Gartner Modern Dermatology Westport Lifestyle Western CT Health Network Darien Library TOP Station Whiskey Barrel Epsilon Sterling House Community Center Bridgeport Regional Business Council University of Bridgeport Deloitte Consulting LLP Bank of America Service After Service Wilson Elser Rocco & Associates Wealth Management, Inc. Pullman & Comley Lentner NicholsMD of Greenwich Nielsen’s Florist & Garden Shop Cramer & Anderson City Center Danbury LaKota Oaks

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Good Things TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION HONORS GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Barrett Christie, director of animal husbandry for The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.

Photo courtesy of Maritime Aquarium.

Dr. Paul Stanislaw

SURGEON CRUSADES FOR CROHN’S DISEASE WITH CONTRIBUTION CAMPAIGN

AQUARIUM’S EXEC ACHIEVES TOP WATER-QUALITY CERTIFICATION

Dr. Paul Stanislaw, a facial plastic surgeon, wants to help people who suffer from Crohn’s disease by launching an awareness and fund-raising campaign. Stanislaw started May 1 and will continue for the month of May to donate all $100 consultation cancellation fees to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. The month of May is dedicated to shining a light on the symptoms and treatments of Crohn’s and Colitis.

Men and women are equally likely to be affected and while the disease can occur at any age, Crohn’s is more prevalent among adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 35. Among younger children, Crohn’s may delay growth and development.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER APPOINTED AT CHARKIT CHEMICAL Jay Lang, president of Charkit Chemical Company, announced that Mark Leasure has accepted the role of business development manager for Charkit Chemical of Norwalk, a subsidiary of LBB Specialties LLC. Leasure will leverage his market knowledge to identify opportunities for new business development in the intermountain states region. This will include prioritizing and nurturing potential new customers and enhancing and expanding relationships with current customers by applying Charkit’s problem-solving expertise to their specific business challenges.

Prior to joining Charkit, Leasure was senior market manager for Diversety Care, a total cleaning solutions provider, where he managed activities in four states. Earlier in his career, he was a district sales manager for Univar USA, the largest chemical distributor in the U.S., and held sales roles with Nexeo Solutions LLC and Coast Southwest Inc. Leasure graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City with a Bachelor of Science degree in business marketing. He is a member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, Idaho Milk Processors Association and the Utah Food Industry Association.

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From left: Dimitri Seferidis, Nicolas Everett, John Wasilewski and Debra Mecky. Photo courtesy of Greenwich Historical Society.

Greenwich Historical Society’s newly reimagined campus is the recipient of an Award of Merit from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.

The awards program honors outstanding achievement in protecting and nourishing Connecticut’s significant buildings, landscapes and communities and the individuals and organizations whose work makes historic plac-

es serve as an inspiration for others.

Historical Society Executive Director and CEO Debra Mecky, David Scott Parker and John Wasilewski of David Scott Parker Architects, and Nicolas Everett and Dimitri Seferidis of A.P. Construction Co. accepted the award for the project team, which also included Peter Malkin, Reimagine the Campus campaign chairman. The Connecticut Trust

praised the complex for furthering the historical society’s mission and revitalizing a place that inspired Impressionist artists. The campus’ restored Toby’s Tavern was immortalized by Childe Hassam, one of America’s greatest painters, when he and other American Impressionists lived, worked and taught at the site of the campus on Cos Cob harbor from 1890 to 1920.

SCHIPANI PR PARTNERS WITH WOMEN’S MENTORING NETWORK Headquartered in Stamford, Schipani PR has taken the Women’s Mentoring Network under its wing. President and CEO Mia Schipani recently volunteered to teach 15 to 20 local community women how to brand and market themselves for business and new careers with a one-hour workshop. She shared ways to market yourself, a real-life marketing plan to use as a productivity tool to stay accountable and five instrumental tips that are critical for networking.

Schipani told the women, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” And, she stressed that “making connections every day and cultivating them is the most valuable strategy when looking to make changes in life or business.”

The Women’s Mentoring Network is a Stamford-based charitable organization which offers education, mentorship and resources that foster financial independence, asset-building and economic mobility for low-income women and families in Fairfield County.

Mia Schipani teaches networking skills for women who are in career transitions.

Barrett Christie, director of animal husbandry for The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, is the first person to pass a national mastery-level exam focused on water quality in public aquariums.

Christie recently passed the Level 3 water-quality exam administered by the Aquatic Animal Life Support Operators (AALSO), an organization of water-quality and mechanical-system professionals who care for the systems that make large-scale aquatic animal care possible.

As the only aquarium in the world to employ a certified Level 3 water-quality technician, The Maritime Aquarium is even better equipped to meet the challenges of providing the highest standard of care to its animals.

The AALSO offers annual examinations on life-support and water-quality theories and also on operational procedures, ranging from basic to advanced duties. Levels one, two or three are awarded to any zoo or aquarium life-support operator who successfully passes the respective exam covering established criteria for that level.

BOCHA’S FIRST MEETING IN STATE Business Owners Hemp + Cannabis (BOCHA) held the first of the association’s meetings on April 23 at its headquarters in Norwalk. With nearly 40 business owners in attendance, the inaugural meeting was deemed a success. Attendants came from a broad variety of backgrounds in terms of the industries in which they work. All, however, were interested in the legal cannabis space. Some individuals were already operating within this industry and many others curious about it, seeking to learn more before entering the field.

The organization’s founders invite all those interested in or currently pursuing the new cannabis arena to join BOCHA at its second association meeting May 23, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at BOCHA headquarters located at 149 Water St., Suite 301, in Norwalk.

For more, contact Robyn Goldenberg at robyn@BOHCA.biz.

SAVINGS BANK OF DANBURY’S AVP GRADUATES FROM CONNECTICUT BANKERS COURSE

Michael Parry, M.D.

STAMFORD HEALTH PHYSICIAN HONORED BY UNITED HOSPITAL FUND Michael Parry, M.D., the Thomas J. Bradsell chair of infectious diseases at Stamford Health, is among 56 honorees selected to receive the United Hospital Fund’s (UHF) 2019 Excellence in Health Care Award for Quality Improvement Champions. The award was presented to Parry at the UHF Tribute to Excellence in Health Care event on May 6 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

Honorees were recognized for spearheading significant advances in quality improvement, patient safety and the patient experience in local hospital systems. Parry was awarded for his extraordinary leadership efforts to improve the quality of care at Stamford Health, as well as his contribution to the New York metropolitan region’s reputation as a center of excellence in health care.

A Stamford native and an infectious disease specialist for Stamford Health, Parry received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and is board certified in infectious diseases and internal medicine. He completed his residencies at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York and University of California Hospitals in San Francisco as well as a fellowship in infectious diseases at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.

BIC’s General Manager Mary Fox, with her children Sophie and Ben, at Bring Your Child to Work Day.

From left: Savings Bank of Danbury First Vice President of Marketing Loris Eminente; Assistant Vice President and Marketing Manager Dori Ann Youngberg; Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Nicholas J. Gazetos; and President and CEO Martin G. Morgado.

Dori Ann Youngberg, assistant vice president and marketing manager for Savings Bank of Danbury, recently graduated from the two-year Connecticut Bankers Association (CBA) Connecticut School of Finance and Management (CSFM) program. She has

been with the bank since April 2017 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.

The CBA’s comprehensive two-year CSFM program provides experienced bank-

CELEBRITY MC FOR PEDIATRICS AND WOMEN’S HEALTH AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL BENEFIT

STAMFORD FIRM SPONSORS AWARD

Nicole and Jeff Glor at the 2018 Under the Stars event.

Julie Jason of Greenwich and her firm, Jackson, Grant Investment Advisers Inc. in Stamford, are sponsors of the 401(k) Champion Award, a unique award that shines a light on employees who believe in their 401(k)s and participants who see their 401(k)s as enabling them to retire securely. Winners can be found at http://tinyurl.com/401kchampions.

Jeff Glor, CBS Evening News anchor and Greenwich resident, will serve as master of ceremonies at the Under the Stars event on Friday, May 17, a fund-raiser from 7 to 11:30 p.m. at Riverside Yacht Club in Greenwich to benefit the comprehensive range of pediatric and women’s health services at Greenwich Hospital.

This marks the third year that the

Emmy-award winning and veteran news journalist will fill the role of emcee for the evening. Glor’s wife, Nicole, serves on the planning committee for the event.

For information about sponsorship and tickets, contact Stephanie Dunn Ashley, director of special events, at 203863-3865 or email Events@GreenwichHospital.org.

ers with exposure to all areas of banking.

Students participate in monthly seminars, write papers on selected topics and work on group projects, including “Bank Sim,”a simulation of three years in the life of a bank, all by working their full-time jobs.

THE NATHANIEL WITHERELL HOSTS DEMENTIA INFORMATION SESSIONS To meet the rising demand for education and support tools, and to help drive the town of Greenwich’s goal to receive formal designation as a “dementia-friendly” place, The Nathaniel Witherell in Greenwich will host two one-hour “Dementia Friends” information sessions: one on Thursday, May 16, and the other Thursday, June 20, both from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in its second-floor executive boardroom at 70 Parsonage Road. (Light refreshments will be served.) The sessions will be led by dementia champion Lori Contadino of the Greenwich Commission on Aging, who has been specially trained. The sessions are free and open to all.

The sessions will provide education on what it’s like to live with dementia and will give participants five key messages about the disease to take with them out into the community.

Reservations are required. For more information or to register, call Scott Neff at 203-618-4227 or email sneff@friendsofwitherell.org. Nathaniel Witherell is a short-term rehabilitation and skilled nursing center located on 24 acres just two miles from downtown Greenwich.

BRING YOUR CHILD TO WORK DAY CELEBRATION AT BIC Eighty kids recently visited BIC’s North American headquarters in Shelton to enjoy a fun-filled morning of games and activities with their parents at Bring Your Child to Work Day. Children decorated flower pots in recognition of Earth Day, drew self-portraits and murals with newly released BIC Kids coloring products, joined a scavenger hunt for BIC Boys and prepared boxes of school supplies to be donated to the Roosevelt School in Bridgeport.

STAMFORD’S WALK TO END EPILEPSY Fairfield County residents will be out in force on Sunday, May 19, as they show their support for epilepsy awareness and the Epilepsy Foundation of Connecticut (EFCT) by participating in the Walk to End Epilepsy (formerly known as Sharon’s Ride.

Run.Walk for Epilepsy), which will be held at the Cove Island Park in Stamford.

Registration for the walk begins at 9 a.m. and the event starts at 10 a.m. Registration is $35 and includes a T-shirt, lunch and a purple bandana for dogs. Dogs are welcome on leash on the walk path at this family-friendly event. Registration is available online at epilepsyct.com/walk or on-site at the event. Stamford Mayor David Martin will be there to kick off the walk.

For registration and additional information, visit epilepsyct.com/walk or call 860-346-1924.

Information for these features has been submitted by the subjects or their delegates.

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Fairfield County

DOCTORS of DISTINCTION

Saluting those who go beyond the diagnosis

2019 Join us to Honor the Best Doctors in Health Care

MEET THE HONOREES

Peter Acker Diego Camacho Angela Campbell Patricia Close Evelyn Cusack Marilee Freitas Jeannie Kenkare Mary MacDonald Philip McWhorter Mark Melendez

WestMed Medical Group, Caring for All Montefiore Health System, No Land Too Far Norwalk Hospital, Female Trailblazer WestMed Medical Group, All in the Family Stamford Hospital, Female Trailblazer Stamford Health Medical Group, Cutting Edge PhysicianOne Urgent Care, Urgent Care Center Advanced Radiology Consultants, Support Staff Greenwich Hospital, Lifetime Achievement Award Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery Associates of Connecticut, Caring for All Paul Schwartz Bob Macauley Americares Free Clinic of Norwalk, Team Player Mark Vitale Orthopedic & Neurosurgery Specialists, Cutting Edge Andrew Yanik Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, Promise for the Future

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Facts & Figures BUILDING PERMITS Commercial Brown Roofing Company Inc., Danbury, contractor for Lydia Yaglenski. Re-roof 61 Padanaram Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed March 7.

Gratzel LLC, Danbury, contractor for Rose M. Bennett.

Repair tear and re-roof 4 Circle Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $9,400. Filed March 14.

Lemus, Oswaldo J., Danbury, contractor for 100 Rose Hill LLC. Replace vinyl siding at 100 Rose Hill Ave., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $15,600. Filed March 27.

New England Land Trust LLC, Danbury, contractor for New England Land Trust LLC. Repair water damage at 4 Merrimac St., No.1, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $14,469. Filed March 25.

Rodriguez, Victor C., Danbury, contractor for Bookside Condo Association. Repair water damage at 7 Padanaram Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed March 13.

TMC Residential LLC, Danbury, contractor for TMC Residential LLC. Remodel master bedroom and relocate bath at 1 Ridge Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $65,000. Filed March 21.

Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership, Danbury, contractor for Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership. Construct full bathroom in basement at 14 Enclave Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $4,500.

Filed March 7.

Items appearing in the Fairfield County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

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Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership, Danbury, contractor for Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership. Build a unit home at 7 Brentwood Circle, Danbury. Estimated cost: $353,073. Filed March 7.

Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership, Danbury, contractor for Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership. Build a unit home at 9 Brentwood Circle, Danbury. Estimated cost: $279,888. Filed March 7.

Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership, Danbury, contractor for Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership. Build a unit home at 11 Brentwood Circle, Danbury. Estimated cost: $301,546. Filed March 7.

Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership, Danbury, contractor for Toll Connecticut III Limited Partnership. Build a unit home at 13 Brentwood Circle, Danbury. Estimated cost: $285,362 Filed March 7.

Trinity Solar, Danbury, contractor for Henry Laos and Abella Laos. Install solar panels on roof at 12 Hickory St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $32,000.

Filed March 27.

Vinylume Inc., Danbury, contractor for Marc Madia and Barbara Terlikoski. Replace windows at 3003 Heartwood Lane, Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,288. Filed March 14.

Wood Works Construction Inc., Danbury, contractor for Kevin J. Howard and Lisa M. Howard. Expand family room in basement at 42 Maplewood Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed March 5.

Residential Alfano, Jason, Danbury, contractor for Jason Alfano. Build 3 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and two-car garage at 52 Judith Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $350,000. Filed March 25.

Campoverde, Jorge, Danbury, contractor for Jorge Campoverde. Replace first-floor joists and beam at 97 South St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $40,000. Filed March 27.

Farley, Susan, Danbury, contractor for Susan Farley.

Make master bedroom in attic and finish basement at 17 Dartmouth Lane, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed March 25.

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Fontaine Construction LLC, Danbury, contractor for Clyde T. Ricard. Replace stairs after storm damage at 6 Harvard Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $2,200. Filed March 21.

Parzuchowski, Ellen L., Danbury, contractor for Ellen L. Parzuchowski. Replace two entry doors at 44 Brushy Hill Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $6,350. Filed March 11.

Handler, Robert J. and Susan C. Handler, Danbury, contractor for Robert J. Handler.

Rebuild and remodel second floor at 33 Cedar Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $17,000.

Filed March 27.

Perez, Alejandro, Danbury, contractor for Alejandro Perez. Enclose porch at 16 Laurel St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,872. Filed March 7.

Kling Brothers Builders Inc., Danbury, contractor for Scott Andrew Sasso. Remodel kitchen and remove wall at 25 Beechwood Drive, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $65,000. Filed March 28.

Langlois, Kurt M. and Joanne P. Langlois, Danbury, contractor for Kurt M. Langlois.

Replace siding and roof at 31 Rolf Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed March 20.

Marcal Realty LLC, Danbury, contractor for Marcal Realty LLC. Replace vinyl siding at 3 Valerie Lane, Danbury. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed March 21.

Matute, Maria A. and Julio A. Lopez, Danbury, contractor for Maria A. Matute and Julio A. Lopez. Build exterior staircase at 5 Moss Ave., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed March 28.

Moody, Marilyn, Danbury, contractor for Marilyn Moody.

Remodel kitchen at 23 Juniper Ridge Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $55,000. Filed March 11.

Moody, Marilyn, Danbury, contractor for Marilyn Moody.

Build three rooms and deck at rear of house at 23 Juniper Ridge Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed March 21.

Mota, Sandra, Danbury, contractor for Sandra Mota. Repair roof at 57 Topstone Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $1,600.

Filed March 5.

Nelson Roofing & Siding Inc., Danbury, contractor for Alfred Badinelli and Candace Badinelli. Re-roof 152 Long Ridge Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $14,500. Filed March 20.

Otavalo, Carlos, Danbury, contractor for Carlos Otavalo.

Finish basement at 52 Oil Mill Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed March 11.

Pinnacle Maintenance LLC, Danbury, contractor for HACD Corp. Build toilettes, lights and tubs at 98 Elm St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed March 7.

Pompea, Gregory K. and Kelly A. Pompea, Danbury, contractor for Gregory K. Pompea. Construct garage extension at 11 Coach Hill Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed March 11.

Power Home Remodeling Group Inc., Danbury, contractor for Brian Tabanski. Replace windows at 11 Hayestown Heights Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $3,827. Filed March 20.

Power Home Remodeling Group Inc., Danbury, contractor for Marcia DaCosta Mayne.

Re-roof 15 Nabby Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $31,897.

Filed March 20.

Pro Custom Solar LLC, Danbury, contractor for Valdir Nascimento. Install solar panels on roof at 49 Garfield Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $27,562.

Filed March 7.

Rios, Raul, Danbury, contractor for Christopher J. Goodrow. Repair water damage and re-roof 195 Stadler Rough Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed March 20.

Sanchez, Rodrigo, Danbury, contractor for Rodrigo Sanchez. Finish attic for playroom at 72 Deer Hill Ave., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed March 6.

Sawchyn, June, Danbury, contractor for June Sawchyn.

Convert mudroom to half bathroom at 9 Old Shelter Rock Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed March 7.

Solimine Contracting LLC, Danbury, contractor for Richard Parmalee. Remodel bathroom at 1 Veaber Brook Road, No. 10, Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed March 19.

Sunpower Corporate Systems, Danbury, contractor for Constantine Mastrogianni. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 20 Indian Spring Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $18,112.

Filed March 11.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Nilda Almonte and Larry C. Collado.

Install roof-mounted solar panels at 35 Forest Ave., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $13,167. Filed March 21.

SunPower Corporate Systems, Danbury, contractor for Frederick W. Lodsin. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 16A Great Plain Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $16,200. Filed March 20.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Robert A. Wirtig and Raffaela Wirtig.

Install roof-mounted solar panels at 40 Forest Ave., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $19,404. Filed March 21.

Sunrun Installation Services, Danbury, contractor for Peter H. Bueno and Erika Karine Bueno. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 37 Topstone Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $12,342. Filed March 12.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Jose Guallpa Quituisaca. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 7 E. Pearl St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $31,878. Filed March 21.

Sunrun Installation Services, Danbury, contractor for Wayne Ferguson. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 45 Meadowbrook Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,423.

Filed March 28.

The Barn Yard Inc., Danbury, contractor for Dennis Gregier and Margaret M. Gregier.

Construct garage and storage space at 10 Ironwood Drive.

Danbury. Estimated cost: $13,190. Filed March 28.

Trinity Solar, Danbury, contractor for Alice K. Masters, install roof-mounted solar panels at 39 Hillandale Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $23,000.

Filed March 14.

Trinity Solar, Danbury, contractor for Uriel A. Gomez. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 54 Purcell Drive, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $40,000. Filed March 14.

Trinity Solar, Danbury, contractor for Quintino Ricioppo.

Install roof-mounted solar panels at 17 Indian Head Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $21,000. Filed March 27.

Trinity Solar, Danbury, contractor for Robert H. Brown. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 16 Indian Head Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $27,000.

Filed March 27.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Maria L. Lima. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 2 Bergh St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $12,474. Filed March 12.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Carmen Genao. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 11 Grove St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $18,711. Filed March 21.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Vito Iacobellis. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 5 Francis Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $9,009. Filed March 21.

COURT CASES Bridgeport Superior Court Baker, Tracey, et al, Bridgeport. Filed by Pro Tech Home LLC, Trumbull. Plaintiff’s attorney: Becker & Zowine Law Offices of LLC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff and defendants entered into an oral monthto-month lease agreement for the use and occupancy of an apartment. The defendants failed to pay rent for Marchand April 2019. The plaintiff claims a judgment for possession of the premises. Case no. FBT-CV19-6085158-S. Filed April 17.

Barba, Cristian, Stratford.

Filed by Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialist, Wallingford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Tobin & Marohn, Meriden Action: The plaintiff rendered medical services to the defendant. The defendant has failed to pay for these services. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages less than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBTCV-19-6084769-S. Filed April 3.

Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 701 Westchester Ave, Suite 100 J White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3699

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Facts & Figures Gonyer, William, Easton.

Filed by American Express National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Zwicker and Associates PC, Enfield. Action: The defendant used a credit account issued by plaintiff, a banking association, and agreed to make payments for goods and services.

The defendant failed to make payments. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages less than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV-196083904-S. Filed March 7.

Dorsey, Nicholas, Sandy Hook. Filed by O’Neil Anderson, Rye, New York. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Flood Law Firm LLC, Middletown. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

DBD-CV-19-6030709-S. Filed April 8.

Blower, Gavin, et al, Baltimore, Maryland. Filed by Joachim Jean-Jacques, Stamford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Wesley Mark Malowitz, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-196040857-S. Filed April 8.

Harriman, Morgan, et al, Southwick, Massachusetts.

Filed by Alphonso Reid, Hamden. Plaintiff’s attorney: Devaughn L Ward, Hartford.

Action: The plaintiff was falsely accused by the defendants for sexual assault. The plaintiff was incarcerated for 10 months. As a result, plaintiff suffered damage to his reputation, embarrassment, anxiety and lost wages. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-19-6083510-S. Filed Feb. 22.

Mouson, Kelea Leonard, et al, New Milford. Filed by Ashley Galanti, New Milford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

DBD-CV-19-6030406-S. Filed March 15.

Cantey, Joseph, Norwalk.

Filed by Scott Clark, Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rojas Law Firm, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-19-6040590-S. Filed March 22.

Preferred Printing Coompany Inc., et al, Trumbull.

Filed by Newtown Savings Bank, Newtown. Plaintiff’s attorney: Neubert Pepe & Monteith PC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff loaned money to the defendants. To secure the loan the defendants granted the plaintiff a security interest as collateral. In case of default, the plaintiff has all the rights to take possession of the collateral and sell or dispose by public or private sale. The defendants defaulted on the agreement.

The plaintiff seeks immediate possession of the collateral and monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FBT-CV-19-6083447-S. Filed Feb. 20.

Danbury Superior Court Blake, Sylvia, et al, Danbury. Filed by Aaron Rubinow, Brookfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Haymond Law Firm PC, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

DBD-CV-19-6030300-S. Filed March 6.

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Newberry, Dawson Scott, Newtown. Filed by Renzo Guillermo Ortega, Sandy Hook.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

DBD-CV-19-6030548-S. Filed March 29.

Nicholas Annunziato, et al, Danbury. Filed by Assuncao M Gabriel, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury.

Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196030100-S. Filed Feb. 15.

Stamford Superior Court Araujo, Heliovaldo D., Jamestown, Rhode Island.

Filed by Annette Papanikolaou, South Paris, Maine. Plaintiff’s attorney: Perkins & Associates, Woodbridge. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-19-6039672-S. Filed Jan. 18.

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Gittings, David W., et al, Greenwich. Filed by Julio Fabian, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Harris Harris & Schmid, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff was hired to paint the exterior areas of the defendants’ premises. While on the premises, the plaintiff fell through a protective railing, which unexpectedly and without warning gave way, causing several injuries to the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FST-CV-19-6040961-S. Filed April 15.

Petrocelli, Edward I., et al, West Haven. Filed by Robert Pekar, Westport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Taylor & Fedor LLC, Westport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FST-CV-19-6040413-S. Filed March 11.

DEEDS Commercial 30-32 Ferris Ave Associates LLC, Norwalk. Seller: Marie T. Thiersaint-Menard, Norwalk.

Property: 30 Ferris Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $450.000. Filed March 15.

4 Wilbur LLC, Rowayton.

Seller: Russell J. Ouellette, Norwalk. Property: 4 Wilbur St., Norwalk. Amount: $200,000.

Filed March 4.

70 Shorefront LLC, Norwalk.

Seller: Vincent D’Alessio and Frances D’Alessio, Norwalk.

Property: 2 Brown Place, Norwalk. Amount: $680,000. Filed March 15.

Angelina LLC, Norwalk. Seller: David F. Veber and Lorraine Veber, Norwalk. Property: 152 Winfield St., Norwalk. Amount: $869,000. Filed March 14.

BBB Investors LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Mark J. Brockwell and Janice M. Gans, Westport.

Property: 1 Walter Ave., Unit 4, Norwalk. Amount: $122,000.

Filed Feb. 28.

E & B Investments LLC, Stamford. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon, Anaheim, California. Property: 51 Baxter Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $204,200. Filed Feb. 28.

Faye & Mila Investments LLC, Chicago, Illinois. Seller: 17 Park Street Norwalk LLC, Easton. Property: 17 Park St., Norwalk. Amount: $550,000.

Filed March 11.

Good Solid Land LLC, New Canaan. Seller: Frederick H. Fechner, Norwalk. Property: 16 Hoyt St., Norwalk. Amount: $385,000. Filed March 7.

Jolly & Son LLC, Glastonbury.

Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 2 Silvermine Ridge, Norwalk.

Amount: $610,050. Filed Feb. 27.

Quiroga, Ronald, Norwalk.

Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Carrollton, Texas. Property: 18 Prospect Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $122,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Residential Abrahamsen, Thomas T., Norwalk. Seller: Domenick Monteleone and Antonietta Monteleone, Norwalk. Property: 10 Rudolf Lane, Norwalk.

Amount: $470,000. Filed Feb. 26.

Alfano, Melanie and Giovanni Alfano, Fairfield. Seller: Oya Gurbuz, Fairfield. Property: 57 Marlborough Terrace, Fairfield. Amount: $475,000. Filed April 15.

Anderson, James H. and Sharon M. Anderson, Bethel.

Seller: Thomas Michael Griffin and Alexandra Michelle Griffin, Norwalk. Property: 52 Rowayton Woods Drive, Unit 78, Norwalk. Amount: $350,000.

Filed March 11.

Angelbeck, Christoph and Alyssa Tierney, Darien. Seller: Ann Cuccio Ward and David S. Ward, Fairfield. Property: 15 Pine Point Road, Unit 221, Norwalk. Amount: $93,500. Filed Feb. 26.

Anwar, Mohammed F. and Latifa Khanam, Floral Park, New York. Seller: Demetrios Andronikides and Mary Elena Andronikides, Norwalk. Property: 14 Three Seasons Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $375,000.

Filed March 12.

Arnette, Jerry and Kimberly A. Prada, Norwalk. Seller: Halyna Kovalska and Anatoliy Kowalski, Norwalk. Property: 6 Rebel Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $490,000. Filed March 14.

Baginski, Daniel and Elizabeth Megroz Baginski, New York, New York. Seller: Kimberly A. Scorese, Norwalk.

Property: 26 Old Trolley Way, Norwalk. Amount: $600,000.

Filed March 18.

Baker, Andrew Wyatt and Lisa Marie Baker, Norwalk.

Seller: Randall Weiss, Norwalk.

Property: 21 Donohue Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $399,000.

Filed Feb. 28.

Bennett, Terri, Norwalk.

Seller: Karen M. Casey, Darien.

Property: 17 Thomas Place, Unit 11, Norwalk. Amount: $1,390,000. Filed March 11.

Boehme, Lisa M., Norwalk.

Seller: Srikanth Eathiraju and Ambili Gopinathan Nair, Norwalk. Property: 23 Felix Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $434,370.

Filed March 15.

Borja, Ana, Norwalk. Seller: Wei Yan, Norwalk. Property: 13 Ferris Ave., Unit 7, Norwalk.

Amount: $250,000. Filed March 12.

Buchsbaum, Benjamin, Norwalk. Seller: Alexander Zesch, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania. Property: 3 France St., Unit 3, Norwalk. Amount: $225,000. Filed March 14.

Burgess, Eric and Quentin Burgess, Norwalk. Seller: 105 Perry Avenue LLC, Norwalk.

Property: 105 Perry Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $825,000. Filed March 12.

Cano Jaramillo, Julian Guillermo and Leni Yurley Pulgarin Lopera, Norwalk.

Seller: Mary Kyriakides, Norwalk. Property: 8 Elm St., Norwalk. Amount: $275,000 Filed March 14.

Cao, Rebecca and Daniel DeWoskin, Norwalk. Seller: Carlie S. Tardino, Wilton. Property: 5 Elm crest Terrace, Unit 1, Norwalk. Amount: $285,000.

Filed March 5.

Casella, Gabriel and Lenita D. Casella, Trumbull. Seller: Paul Y. Lee, Stamford. Property: 21 Prospect St., Unit A103 Norwalk. Amount: $182,000. Filed March 14.

Clark, Brian and Kristin Clark, Fairfield. Seller: Sharen A. Kenton, Fairfield. Property: 405 Queens Grant Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1,325,000. Filed April 15.

Coyt, Carmen, Bellwood, Illinois. Seller: Francisco P. Ochoa, Norwalk. Property: 2 Laura St., Norwalk. Amount: $210,000.

Filed March 12.

Crane, Adams and Nicole Crane, Freehold, New Jersey.

Seller: Michael A. Griz, Norwalk. Property: 1 Vail St., Unit A, Norwalk. Amount: $385,000.

Filed March 18.

Davey, Theodore E. and Karen A. Davey, Norwalk. Seller: Audrey R. Johnson, Norwalk.

Property: 5 Caesar St., Norwalk. Amount: $301,000. Filed March 8.

DiCesare, Matthew V. and Courtney A. Ghiloni, Westport. Seller: Martin DeVito and Christine Cunningham, Norwalk. Property: 27 Deepwood Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $495,000. Filed Feb. 28.

Diffenderfer, Jason A. and Kristen E. Whalen, Norwalk.

Seller: Gina R. Barricelli, Norwalk. Property: 46 Linden St., Norwalk. Amount: $455,000.

Filed March 14.

Dowd, Michael and Wendy Dowd, Prospect, Kentucky.

Seller: Thomas Gleason and Patricia A., Gleason. Vero Beach, Florida. Property: Lots 26 and 27 Pine Point, Norwalk.

Amount: $1,440,000. Filed March 5.

Dudley, Alexander G. and Gaelle L. Dudley, Fairfield.

Seller: David I. Toy and Susannah D. Toy, Fairfield. Property: 94 Edward St., Fairfield.

Amount: $1,670,000. Filed April 15.

Escobar, Melvin and Bertha Avalos, Norwalk. Seller: Michael Kent Reilly and Zoey S. Reilly, Trumbull. Property: 34 Ambler Drive, Norwalk.

Amount: $385,000. Filed March 11.

Facts & Figures Eyasmin, Shamima, Jamaica, New York. Seller: Sirajul Islam, M.D., and Mousumi Akter, Norwalk. Property: 81 Bouton St., Norwalk. Amount: $440,000.

Filed March 12.

Miralles, Vilma L. and Edgar A. Miralles, Norwalk. Seller: Daniel J. Tucci and Lisa G. Tucci, Norwalk. Property: 152 Richards Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $525,000. Filed Feb. 26.

Southhold Capital Inc, New Canaan. Seller: Adrian A. Carino, Norwalk. Property: Unit 3, Cedar Heights, Norwalk. Amount: $214,000. Filed March 14.

Ruemmele, Luz M., et al, Creditor: The Bridgeport Wilmot Apartments, Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 785 Connecticut Ave., Apt. 2, Bridgeport.

Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 7.

Griggs, Tyler and Emily Maguire, Stamford. Seller: John R. Winfield and Heidi N. Winfield, Norwalk. Property: 94 Witch Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $735,000. Filed March 4.

Moulard-Skoczen and Christopher D. Skoczen, Fairfield. Seller: Anne M. Grant, Fairfield. Property: 24 Coventry Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $755,000. Filed April 15.

Spatola, John Patrick and Amanda Spatola, Rowayton.

Seller: Hugh Rosebaum, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Property: 15 Pine Point Road, Unit 15, Norwalk. Amount: $90,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Silva, Leonildo, et al, Creditor: MTGLQ Investors LP, Stamford. Property: 47 Victory St., Stamford. Mortgage default.

Filed March 4.

Hak Tae Son and Sun Hwa Lee, Norwalk. Seller: Mary Jo D’Andrea, Norwalk. Property: 80 County St., Unit 5E, Norwalk. Amount: $220,000. Filed March 5.

Murphy, Courtney, Norwalk.

Seller: Rudolf J. Walter and Lina Walter, Scarsdale, New York. Property: 15 Pine Point, Unit 126, Norwalk. Amount: $90,000. Filed March 8.

Haywood, Jeffrey and Marilyn Haywood, Norwalk. Seller: Nicholas G. Kasap and Kamy L. Kasap, Norwalk. Property: Lot 1, Chestnut Hill Road, Norwalk. Amount: $865,000. Filed March 14.

Paige, Bonnie, Southport.

Seller: John C. Bayles, Southport. Property: Lot 1, Willow St., Fairfield. Amount: $860,000.

Filed April 15.

Hodenfield, Trudy, Darien.

Seller: Jessica P. Huse, Norwalk.

Property: Lot No.70, Woodward Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $210,000. Filed Feb. 28.

Holden, Kent and Kaisley Audett, Norwalk. Seller: Kent Holden, Norwalk. Property: 33 Bettswood Road, Norwalk.

Amount: $1. Filed March 6.

Honan, Daniel T. and Jennifer Ephraim, Stamford. Seller: Calla McNamara, Norwalk.

Property: 154 Highland Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $625,000.

Filed March 1.

Ignieri, John E. and Christine L. Tierney, Norwalk. Seller: Douglas Werner and Leanna D. Lawter Darien. Property: 9 Ridgewood Ave., Norwalk.

Amount: $1,100,000. Filed March 18.

Palmer Jr., Richard and Rachel F. Palmer, Darien. Seller: Joshua Feil and Virginia Solley, Stamford. Property: 200 W. Norwalk Road, Norwalk.

Amount: $673,750. Filed Feb. 27.

Pascual, Winter and Kathryn Pascual, Bridgeport. Seller: Kathleen M. Ryan, Norwalk.

Property: 36 Parkhill Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $367,500. Filed March 18.

Pastor Jr., Gregory and Ashley Pastor, Fairfield. Seller: Eric Burgess and Quentin Burgess, Norwalk. Property: 65 Aiken St., Unit A, Norwalk.

Amount: $510,000.

Filed March 4.

Perez, Bladimir A., Norwalk.

Seller: Gloria J. Joseph, Norwalk. Property: 12 Glasser St., Norwalk. Amount: $344,000.

Filed March11.

Jean Baptiste, Marie Y. and Serge Jean Baptiste, Stamford. Seller: Scott Griffin and Violina Griffin, Stamford.

Property: 26 Dorset Road, Norwalk. Amount: $465,000. Filed March 1.

Perschino, Glenn A. and Patricia T. Perschino, Norwalk.

Seller: Patricia T. Perschino, Norwalk. Property: Lots 104, 105 and 106, Hillcrest Terrace, Norwalk. Amount: $100. Filed March 1.

Johnson, Christine, Stamford. Seller: Amit Shah, New Haven. Property: 71 Aiken St., Unit B16, Norwalk. Amount: $315,000. Filed March 6.

Priola, Nicholas and Nicholle Priola, Norwalk. Seller: David Miller and Lisa Miller, Darien. Property: Unit 191, Roton Point Association, Norwalk. Amount: $95,000. Filed March 1.

Koumasidis, Panagiotis, Norwalk. Seller: Black Reef Trust, Midvale, Utah. Property: 17 Red Barn Lane, Norwalk.

Amount: $425,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Milus, Larry and Eveline Jean, Norwalk. Seller: Robert Q. Wong and Theda L. Wong, Norwalk. Property: 24 Pettom Road, Norwalk. Amount: $420,000. Filed Feb. 26.

Ruggiero, Michael and Stacy Ruggiero, Stamford. Seller: Ellen D. Willmott, Dallas, Texas.

Property: 40 Glenrock, Unit 40, Norwalk. Amount: $314,000.

Filed March 8.

Soleng, Christina and Bard Soleng, Norwalk. Seller: Robert Prusak and Melissa A. Prusak, Norwalk. Property: 1 Echo Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $564,500. Filed Feb. 28.

Stankevich, Igor and Veronika Stankevich, Norwalk.

Seller: Joshua S. Andrejczyk and Tiffany Widdows, Norwalk. Property: 40 Ferris Ave., Unit 6, Norwalk. Amount: $418,000. Filed March 8.

Theodoridis, Paul, Norwalk.

Seller: Anthony C. Manousos and Carol A. Manousos, Norwalk. Property: 55 Wall St., Norwalk. Amount: $1,100,000.

Filed March 14.

Turcotte, Todd, Norwalk.

Seller: Royal R. Benedict, Lynn, Massachusetts. Property: 26 Lounsbury Ave., Norwalk.

Amount: $226,000. Filed March 13.

Zlock, Diana R. and Scott A. Scappatura, Norwalk. Seller: Diana R. Zlock, Norwalk. Property: 102 Rowayton Woods Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $1.

Filed March 12.

FORECLOSURES Daley, John J., et al, Creditor: Cazenovia Creek Funding I, LLC, Property: 185 Ezra St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default.

Filed Feb. 7.

Gainer, Lois, et al, Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Carrolton, Texas. Property: 5 Jamroga Lane, Stamford. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 26.

Gomez, Joan L., Creditor: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, Anaheim, California.

Property: 59-61 Sherwood Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default.

Filed Feb. 11 KNB Properties LLC, et al, Creditor: National Cooperative Bank, Arlington, Virginia.

Property: 291 Hope St., Unit B4, Stamford. Mortgage default.

Filed Feb. 15.

Nunez, Virginia C., et al, Creditor: US Bank NA, Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 327 E. Pasadena Place, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 15.

Taylor, Steven H., et al, Creditor: U.S. Bank, NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 530 Lakeside Drive, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 7.

Thelen, Matthew, et al, Creditor: Wells Fargo Bank NA, Fort Mill, South Carolina. Property: 69 Maple Tree Ave., Unit 1, Stamford. Mortgage default.

Filed Feb. 7.

Yoon, Hyojin, et al, Creditor: Benchmark Municipal Tax Services, LTD, Bridgeport.

Property: 547-553 Arctic St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default.

Filed Feb. 7.

JUDGMENTS Amador, Santiago, Bridgeport. $11,437, in favor of Capital One Bank NA, Richmond, Virginia, by Richard Terry, Newington. Property: 225 Soundview Ave., Bridgeport. Filed March 6.

Bendolph, Chervon R., Bridgeport. $4,073, in favor of Capital One Bank NA, Richmond, Virginia, by London & London, Newington. Property: 125 Terry Place, Bridgeport.

Filed March 12.

Jackson, Lashonda, Bridgeport. $6,232, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by London & London, Newington. Property: 68 Sherman St., Bridgeport. Filed March 12.

Johnson, Tony, et al, Bridgeport. $3,079, in favor of The United Illuminating Company, New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 940 Reservoir Ave., Bridgeport.

Filed March 11.

Kent, Robert W., Bridgeport. $ 7,333, in favor of Capital One Bank, NA, Richmond, Virginia,

by London & London, Newington. Property: 2675 Park Ave., Unit 16, Bridgeport. Filed March 12.

Kingwood, Tyrone, Bridgeport. $1,172, in favor of Credit Management Corp., Westbrook, by John N. Rich, Westbrook. Property: 28 Lakeside Drive, Bridgeport. Filed March 11.

Mason, Lizzie, et al, Bridgeport. $2,945, in favor of The United Illuminating Company, New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 82 Goodwin St., Bridgeport. Filed March 14.

Mendez, Alejandro, Bridgeport. $4,787, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by London & London, Newington. Property: 140 Pilgrim Road, Bridgeport. Filed March 12.

Ramirez, Marisel, Bridgeport. $4,028, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by Richard Terry, Newington. Property: 186 Platt St., Bridgeport. Filed March 6.

Rodriguez, Agnes, Bridgeport. $9,660, in favor of Capital One Bank NA, Richmond, Virginia, by Richard Terry, Newington. Property: 615 Jennings Ave., Bridgeport. Filed March 6.

Rucker, Valerie, Bridgeport. $2,458, in favor of The Southern Connecticut Gas Company, Orange, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 84 Rainbow Road, Bridgeport. Filed March 11.

Sayavongsak, Viengsama, Bridgeport. $4,662, in favor of Capital One Bank NA, Richmond, Virginia, by London & London, Newington. Property: 1094 Reservoir Ave., Bridgeport. Filed March 12.

Schneiderman, Susan, Bridgeport. $ 4,374, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by London & London, Newington. Property: 496W. McKinley Ave., Bridgeport. Filed March 12.

Schovanec, John J., Bridgeport. $4,223, in favor of Capital One Bank NA, Richmond, Virginia, by Richard Terry, Newington. Property: 395 Merritt St., Bridgeport. Filed March 6.

Steer, Terrian A., Bridgeport. $5,416, in favor of Capital One Bank NA, Richmond, Virginia,

by London & London, Newington. Property: 466 Savoy St., Bridgeport. Filed March 12.

Bogucki, Marcin, 95 Magnolia St., Bridgeport. $100,324, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Braxton, Julian and Elizabeth Braxton, 133 Indian Ave., Bridgeport. $570, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Bryant Clifton, 107 William St., No. A, Bridgeport. $11,885, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Buntin, Pansy A., 3412 Main St., Bridgeport. $12,587, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Cayo, Delice, 504 Wilmot Ave., Bridgeport. $301, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Clarke, Harold, 522 Carroll Ave. Bridgeport. $434, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Clifton, Henry, 86 Davis Ave., Bridgeport. $78,167, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Dahdal, Maher, et al, 840 Connecticut Ave., Bridgeport. $520, civil proceeding tax.

Filed April 2.

Dubose, Allie H., 677 Sylvan Ave., Unit 301, Bridgeport. $25,790, civil proceeding tax.

Filed April 2.

Ebrom, Darren, 1459 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport. $730, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Hernandez, Alejandro, 1971 North Ave., Apt. 2F, Bridgeport. $10,043, civil proceeding tax.

Filed April 2.

Jackson, Michael, 432 Logan St., Bridgeport. $136, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Jimenez Silva, Carlos and Jeanette Jimenez, 80 Paradise Court, Bridgeport. $27,229, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Lloyd, Carol P., 261 Adams St., Bridgeport. $5,413, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Morales, Joseph, 70 Rosalie Drive, Bridgeport. $51,644, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

LIENS Federal Tax Liens Filed

Murphy, Juliana G., 354 Seaview Ave., Bridgeport. $656, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Acevedo, Maria, 451 Logan St., Bridgeport. $250, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Napaul, Maxito and Elizabeth Oppong, 581 Garfield Ave., Bridgeport. $665, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 28.

Anglin, Richard, 405 Logan St., Bridgeport. $278, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

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Facts & Figures Napaul, Maxo Bruneus, 581 Garfield Ave., Bridgeport. $10,268, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 28.

Newton, Joanne, 470 Hollister Ave., Bridgeport. $650, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Polite, Willie and Gussie Polite, 465 Logan St., Bridgeport. $77, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Prime Investment LLC, 407 Logan St., Bridgeport. $47, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Ranger, Maureen, 479 Wilmot Ave., Bridgeport. $ 213, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Simpson, Romain, 181 Horace St., Bridgeport. $2,190, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Thompson-Henry, Tyisiha, 146 Pitt St., Bridgeport. $396,297, civil proceeding tax.

Filed April 2.

Toms, William N., 1443 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport. $267, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Tsichlas, Gus, 3610 Main St., Bridgeport. $10,140, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Uralowich, David W., 485 Jane St., Bridgeport. $10,251, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

Williams Jones, Roxanne, 201 Hewitt St., Bridgeport. $220, civil proceeding tax.

Filed April 2.

Yarborough, Liliane N., 562 Carroll Ave., Bridgeport. $42, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 2.

LIS PENDENS

Carter, Malcolm S., et al, Stamford. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Freedom Mortgage Corp. Property: 130 Knickerboker Ave., Stamford. Action: inter alia foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 29.

Lambert, Fitzroy, et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Company. Property: 99 Belltown Road, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed April 16.

Stephenson Residential Services LLC, et al, Fairfield.

Filed by the Law Offices of Keith K. Fuller, Enfield, for PS Funding Trust 1004. Property: 8 Hillside Ave., Stamford.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed April 30.

Dixon, James W., Stamford.

Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority.

Property: 7 Brown Ave., Unit 7, Stamford. Action: brought claiming nonpayment of sewer-use fees by defendant. Filed April 23.

Lopez Cynthia, et al, Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Hayes House Association Inc. Property: Unit 2G, Hayes House Condominium, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ lien. Filed April 16.

Tuck, Thomas, et al, Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Roosevelt Manor Association Inc. Property: Unit 2, Roosevelt Manor Condominium, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ lien.

Filed March 25.

Donnelly, John J., Stamford.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for U.S. Bank National Association Property: 2349 Washington Blvd, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 22.

Duffy, Craig G., et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for HSBC Bank USA. Property: 202 Soundview Ave., Unit 60, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed May 1.

Escoffery, Alberto, et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Caliber Home Loans Inc. Property: 518 Fairfield Ave., Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed April 5.

Fine, David, Stamford. Filed

by Costello, Brennan & DeVidas PC, Fairfield, for Jennifer Fine. Property: 123 Old Barn Road, Stamford. Action: dissolution of marriage. Filed March 25.

Flink, Ellen M., et al, Stamford. Filed by Marinosci Law Group PC, for Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Property: Unit C13, Beachcomber Condominium, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed April 15.

18 Cold Spring LLC, et al, Stamford. Filed by Wallman Law Firm LLC, New Canaan, for Tom Sikiotis. Property: 18 Cold Spring Road, Stamford.

Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 24.

Gjuraj, Lushe, et al, Stamford.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 56 Fox Glen Drive, Stamford.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed April 15.

Bivona, Gary and Dawn Marie Bivona, Stamford. Filed

by John P. Regan, Stamford, for the city of Stamford. Property: 3 Cypress Drive, Stamford.

Action: inter alia foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 8.

Juarez, Cesar, et al, Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority.

Property: 32 Woodledge Road, Stamford. Action: is brought claiming nonpayment of sewer-use fees by defendants. Filed April 17.

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Moye, Monique M., et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. Property: 20 Spruce St., Unit E5, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 5.

Zukowski, Suzanne M., Stamford. Filed by Frankel & Berg, Norwalk, for Stamford Federal Credit Union. Property: 11 Saint Charles Ave., Stamford.

Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage lien. Filed April 15.

Nyberg, Michael K., et al, Stamford. Filed by Rosenberg & Rosenberg, PC, West Hartford, for Redstone Manor Condominium Association Inc. Property: 39 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2Z, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed April 1.

LEASES

Pofrter, Karen V., Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority.

Property: 5 Brown Ave., Unit 5, Stamford. Action: is brought claiming nonpayment of sewer-use fees by defendant. Filed April 23.

Kaczmarek, Wanda, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 100 Court D, Building 81, Apt. 25, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced March 20, 2019.

Filed March 20.

Mendez, Luis and Massy Mendez, by Marylou Weeks.

Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc, Bridgeport.

Property: 100 Court D, Building 25, Apt. 33, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced March 7, 2019. Filed March 8.

Romanello, Aleyda, et al, Stamford. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Property: 56 Vanech Drive, Stamford. Action: inter alia foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed May 2.

Myers, Adel, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc, Bridgeport. Property: 100 Court D, Building 13, Apt. 249, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced March 25,2019. Filed March 27.

Sarno Jr., Frank J., et al, Stamford. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. Property: 279 Stamford Ave., Stamford. Action: inter alia foreclosure of defendants’ mortgage.

Filed March 25.

MORTGAGES Corsello, Matthew J., Stamford, by Janice L. Stevens. Lender: The First Bank of Greenwich. 444 E. Putnam Ave., Cos Cob. Property: 76 Barholm Ave., Stamford. Amount: $101,000.

Sheehan, James W., et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Waterfall Victoria Grantor Trust II, Series G. Property: 36 Norvel Lane, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed April 17.

Desjardins, Richardson and Stephanie R. Desjardins, Stamford, by Matthew L. Corrente. Lender: Citibank NA 1000 Technology Drive, O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 92 Brookside Drive, Stamford.

Amount: $373,450.

Simpson, Denise A., et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for First County Bank. Property: 15 Randall Ave., Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed March 28.

Elias, Razia S., Stamford, by Mary Wilux. Lender: Caliber Home Loans Inc., 1525 S. Belt Line Road, Coppell, Texas, Property: 52 High St., Stamford.

Amount: $480,250.

Griffin Boucher, Christopher, Stamford, by Douglas J. Wells. Lender: Citibank NA, 1000 Technology Drive, O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 138 Summer St., 1B, Stamford.

Amount: $217,000.

Herritt, David J. and Cynthia W. Herritt, Stamford,

by Benjamin Connel. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 100 Woodmere Road, Stamford. Amount: $444,964.

Horrigan, Lindsay, Stamford,

by Antonio Faretta. Lender: The Simsbury Bank & Trust Company Inc., 981 Hopemeadow St., Simsbury. Property: 106 Rockledge Drive, Stamford.

Amount: $50,220.

Kovnatska, Olga, Stamford,

by Mario P. Musilli. Lender: Amerisave Internet Corporation Inc, 4121 Camino del Rio South, San Diego, California.

Property: 49 Highland Road, Unidad 49, Stamford. Amount: $232,500 LaFortune, Kelly R. and Kevin S. Vagueiro Stamford, by John J. Bove. Lender: Cross Country Mortgage Inc., 6850 Miller Road, Brecksville, Ohio. Property: 19 Barmore Drive, east Stamford. Amount: $294,566.

Librandi, Melissa, Stamford,

by Jeffrey Zimmerman. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio, 100 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 12 Larkspur Road, Stamford.

Amount: $100,000.

Moore, Brian and Susan Daly, Stamford, by Dennis J. Bujdud. Lender: United Wholesale Mortgage, 585 South Boulevard East, Pontiac, Michigan.

Property: 4 Bowen St. Stamford. Amount: $388,550.

Nabi, Showkat A., Stamford,

by Kellie Ann Vazzano. Lender: Homestead Funding Corp., 8 Airline Drive, Albany, New York. Property: 47 Sachem Place, Stamford. Amount: $441,750.

Nardi, Carol, Stamford, by Joanne Almonte. Lender: Peoples United Bank NA, 850 Main St., Bridgeport. Property: 180 Glenbrook Road, No. 41, Stamford.

Amount: $40,000.

Piro, Gail, Stamford, by Thor L. Crone. Lender: Michael Piro, 5 Hazelwood Lane, Stamford.

Property: 5 Hazelwood Lane, Stamford. Amount: $477,500.

Smith, Geoffery L. and Melinda H. Smith, Stamford,

by Antonio Faretta. Lender: NationStart Mortgage LLC, 8950 Cypress Waters Blvd, Dallas, Texas. Property: 42 Saint George Ave., Stamford.

Amount: $301,000.

NEW BUSINESSES A&B Services, 9 Green St., Stamford 06902, c/o Anthony Brown. Filed March 12.

A Sasha Event, 28 Perry St., Unit 4E, Stamford 06902, c/o Sasha Rivera. Filed March 7.

Advanced Office Technology, 1177 High Ridge Road, Stamford 06905, c/o Twenty First Century Business Systems Inc. Filed March 5.

Bareminerals, 100 Greyrock Place, Stamford 06901, c/o Shiseido Americas Corp. Filed March 7.

Cantoral Landscaping, 489 Cove Road, Stamford 06902, c/o Marco Tulio Cantoral. Filed March 4.

Carrera Carpentry, 12 Stillwater Place, Stamford 06902, c/o Pedro Carrera Lopez. Filed March 11.

DCW Food Truck & Catering, 47 Larkin St., Stamford 06907, c/o Itagui LLC. Filed March 11.

Geniuses Cleaning Services, 388 Courtland Ave., Stamford 06906, c/o Wadyle Michel Exantus. Filed March 12.

Georgette Home Care of Love LLC, 69 Dale St., Stamford 06902, c/o Georgette Kelly. Filed March 7.

Goldenpink Start, 127 Greyrock Place, No. 1211, Stamford 06901, c/o Lina P. Reyes. Filed March 5.

HLL Plumbing Corp., 44 Liberty Place, Stamford 06902, c/o Henry L. Lopez. Filed March 12.

Ivachiv, 8 Court St., Stamford 06902, c/o Volodymyr Kohut.

Filed March 1.

Janna Express, 42 Avery St., Second floor, Stamford 06902, c/o Jawad H. Fawalha. Filed March 5.

Facts & Figures Just Tea, 33 Virgil St., Apartment 7, Stamford 06902, c/o Miguel Vasquez. Filed March 11.

La Placita Market IV, 118 Stillwater Ave., Stamford 06906, c/o Jam Grocery LLC. Filed March 11.

M-B-Lopez Landscaping, 14 Clarks Hill Ave., No. 2, Stamford 06902, c/o Osman Lopez. Filed March 4.

Nordine’s Vans, 88 Roosevelt Ave., Apartment 2, Stamford 06902, c/o Nordin Bestiane.

Filed March 4.

Psychic of Stamford, 2700 Summer St., Stamford 06905, c/o Tiffany Frank. Filed March 7.

R & C Landscaping, 166 North St., Unit 1, Stamford 06901, c/o Richard Cerron Gonzales. Filed March 8.

San Miguel Mini Market 2 LLC, 65 W. Broad St., Stamford 06902, c/o Freddy A. Acosta.

Filed March 12.

Secret Alibi Ride Share, 19 Weed Hill Ave., Apt. 2, Stamford 06907, c/o Marcos Eduardo Silvera-Carreras Filed March 6.

Sephina Spirits, 662 Hunting Ridge Road, Stamford 06903, c/o Hunting Ridge Road Holdings LLC. Filed March 5.

Szekely Engineering, 1 Strawberry Hill Court, No. 48, Stamford 06902, c/o Thomas Szekely. Filed March 1.

Teaching Grace Family Daycare, 28 Leslie St., Stamford 06902, c/o Gladys Y. Portillo. Filed March 5.

Tripka Design, 85 Riverside Ave., Apt. A, Stamford 06905, c/o Patrick Briel. Filed March 7.

Until Shine Cleaning Co., 4 River Place, Stamford 06907, c/o Sildey J. Valencia-Avendano. Filed March 1.

Urban Outdoor Store, 77 Prospect St., Stamford 06901, c/o Nicholas M. Dominguez.

Filed March 1.

West Main Liquor Store, 445 W. Main St., Stamford 06902, c/o KJK Liquors LLC. Filed March 1.

PATENTS Additive for lubricant compositions comprising an organo-molybdenum compound and a derivatized triazole. Patent no. 10,280,381 issued to Mihir K. Patel, Norwalk; Vincent J. Gatto, Bradenton, Florida. Assigned to Vanderbilt Chemicals LLC, Norwalk.

Copy identification with ultraviolet light exposure.

Patent no. 10,284,740 issued to Edward N. Chapman, Rochester, New York; Paul R. Conlon, South Bristol, New York; Lee C. Moore, Penfield, New York.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Compositions and use of compositions in printing process. Patent no. 10,280,313 issued to Guiqin Song, Milton, Canada; Marcel P. Breton, Mississauga, Canada; Valerie M. Farrugia, Oakville, Canada; James D. Mayo, Mississauga, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Data aggregation and delivery. Patent no. 10,284,651 issued to Vallabha Vasant Hampiholi, Bangalore, India; Girisha Ganapathy, Bangalore, India; Suhas Rao, Sagara, India; Sharath Chandrashekar, Bangalore, India; Sujay Kulkarni, Bagalkot, India. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Electrical connection devices with welded wire leads. Patent no. 10,283,881 issued to Charles Mitchell Stilwell, Skiatook, Oklahoma; Mamoon Tawfiq Abedraboh, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Electrostatic 3-D printer having rotating magnetic cores within developer rolls. Patent no. 10,279,577 issued to Robert W. Phelps, Victor, New York; John R. Uchal, Webster, New York; James E. Williams, Penfield, New York; Paul F. Sawicki, Rochester, New York. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Enhanced common mode current reduction in threephase inductors, transformers and motor drive systems. Patent no. 10,283,262 issued to Kenneth Edward Pagenkopf, Shorewood, Wisconsin. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Hard-surface cleaning device. Patent no. D848,093 issued to James M. Buckley, New Hartford; Joseph K. Patterson, Monroe; Bryan Lee Roberts, Dormagen, Germany. Assigned to Unger Marketing International LLC, Bridgeport.

Headphones system. Patent no. 10,284,939 issued to Daniel I. Radin, Waterford; Kent Jopling, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Isword Zhang, Shenzhen, China. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Imaging members comprising capped structured organic film compositions. Patent no. 10,281,831 issued to Adrien P. Cote, Clarkson, Canada; Gregory McGuire, Oakville, Canada; Richard A. Klenkler, San Jose, California. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Management of database migration. Patent no. 10,282,433 issued to Brian Caruso, Seattle, Washington. Assigned to Quintiles IMS Inc., Danbury.

Method and system to validate identity without putting privacy at risk. Patent no. 10,282,535 issued to Andrew Tunnell, Palm Bay, Florida; Christopher Santillo, Sebastian, Florida; Justin Mitchell, Saint Cloud, Florida; Sean Powers, Melbourne, Florida. Assigned to NXT-ID Inc., Shelton.

Spring-loaded suction cup array gripper. Patent no.

10,279,456 issued to Paul M. Fromm, Rochester, New York; Jeffrey J. Bradway, Rochester, New York; Erwin Ruiz, Rochester, New York; Linn C. Hoover, Webster, New York. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Suspension system mechanism. Patent no. 10,284,938 issued to Jacques Spillman, Los Angeles, California; Lawrence Romestant, Northridge, California. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Systems and method for exhaust gas recirculation. Patent no. 10,280,878 issued to Balaji Hosadurgam Ravindranath, Bangalore, India. Assigned to GE Global Sourcing LLC, Norwalk.

Weather-resistant oor box with draining chamber. Patent no. 10,283,949 issued to Jason Thomas, Mesa, Arizona. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

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