RELEASE: ATTORNEY GENERAL TONG STATEMENT REGARDING EVERSOURCE RATE HIKE FILING
Benton, Elizabeth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
ATTORNEY GENERAL TONG STATEMENT REGARDING EVERSOURCE RATE HIKE FILING
(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding Eversource’s filing with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority seeking a $727 million annual rate increase. If approved, the average residential customer would see rates rise by 18 percent.
“Another tone-deaf insult to Connecticut families facing surging energy costs in the midst of a sweltering summer. We’re going to scrutinize every padded profit, every bonus and every expense to fight for every penny of savings for Connecticut families,” said Attorney General Tong.
Since taking office, Attorney General Tong has fought on behalf of Connecticut consumers at every major proceeding before PURA, blocking upwards of $700 million dollars in requested rate hikes from gas, electric and water companies owned by both Eversource and United Illuminating.
Included in this filing are the storm-related costs from 2018-2023, preliminarily authorized by PURA in a draft decision issued last month. PURA has preliminarily approved $933 million in storm costs, but in its draft decision sided with the Office of the Attorney General, Office of Consumer Counsel, PURA’s Office of Education Outreach and Enforcement and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in rejecting the company’s attempt to make Connecticut ratepayers shoulder over $300 million in unjustified interest. Additional storm costs for 2024 and 2025 will be considered as part of this latest rate case. Approved storm costs will be securitized.
If one removes the 2018-2025 storm costs from the request, Eversource is seeking a $451 million rate increase, resulting in an 11 percent increase for residential bills.
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Benton, Elizabeth
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
ATTORNEY GENERAL TONG ANNOUNCES $29.6 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH GLENMARK OVER CONSPIRACY TO INFLATE PRICES AND LIMIT COMPETITION
If You Bought Certain Generic Prescription Drugs in the United States Between May 1, 2009 and December 31, 2019, You Could be Eligible for Money
(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 48 states and territories announcing a $29.6 million settlement
with Glenmark to resolve allegations that the generic drug manufacturer engaged in a widespread, long-running conspiracy to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous generic
prescription drugs. As part of the settlement agreement, Glenmark will cooperate in the ongoing multistate litigations led by Connecticut against 33 corporate defendants and 25 individual executives. The company has further agreed to a series of internal reforms
to ensure fair competition and compliance with antitrust laws.
Connecticut’s share of today’s settlement is $388,868.
The Glenmark settlement follows settlements with Lannett, Bausch, Apotex and Heritage totaling $66.95 million.
This latest settlement comes as the States prepare for the first trial to be held in Hartford, Connecticut and anticipated to be scheduled in late 2026.
If you purchased a generic prescription drug manufactured by either Glenmark, Lannett, Bausch, Apotex or Heritage between May 2009 and December 2019, you may be eligible for compensation. To determine your eligibility, call 1-866-290-0182 (Toll-Free), email
in...@AGGenericDrugs.com or visit www.AGGenericDrugs.com.
“Glenmark conspired with manufacturers across the generic drug industry jack up prices and block competition for generic prescription drugs. Their brazen collusion cost American families and our public healthcare programs millions of dollars. We are holding
them accountable. Glenmark now joins Lannett, Bausch, Apotex, Heritage and numerous individuals in cooperating with our ongoing litigation as we head to trial in Connecticut in the coming months,” said Attorney General Tong.
Connecticut’s Attorney General Office is leading a coalition of nearly all states and territories in a series of antitrust cases, starting first in 2016 under the leadership of then-Attorney General George Jepsen. The first Complaint included Heritage and 17
other corporate Defendants, two individual Defendants, and 15 generic drugs. Two former executives from Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Jeffery Glazer and Jason Malek, have since entered into settlement agreements and are cooperating. The second Complaint was filed
in 2019 against Teva Pharmaceuticals and 21 of the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers. The Complaint names 16 individual senior executive Defendants. The third complaint, to be tried first, focuses on 80 topical generic drugs that account for billions
of dollars of sales in the United States and names 26 corporate defendants and 10 individual defendants. Seven additional pharmaceutical executives have been cooperating to support the States’ claims.
The cases all stem from a series of investigations built on evidence from several cooperating witnesses at the core of the different conspiracies, a massive document database of over 20 million documents, and a phone records database containing millions of
call detail records and contact information for over 600 sales and pricing individuals in the generics industry. Each complaint addresses a different set of drugs and defendants, and lays out an interconnected web of competing industry executives that met
with each other during industry dinners, "girls nights out,", lunches, cocktail parties, golf outings and communicated via frequent telephone calls, emails and text messages that sowed the seeds for their illegal agreements. Throughout the complaints, defendants
use terms like "fair share," "playing nice in the sandbox," and "responsible competitor" to describe how they unlawfully discouraged competition, raised prices and enforced an ingrained culture of collusion. Among the records obtained by the States is a two-volume
notebook containing the contemporaneous notes of one of the States’ cooperators that memorialized his discussions during phone calls with competitors and internal company meetings over a period of several years.
States and territories settling today with Glenmark include: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, U.S. Virgin
Islands, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Puerto Rico.
Assistant Attorneys General Amy Taylor, Cara Moody, Kyle Ainsworth and Rose Levine, Paralegal Specialist Gaile Colaresi, and Deputy Associate Attorney General Nicole Demers, Chief of the Antitrust Section assisted the Attorney General in this matter.
Benton, Elizabeth
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
ATTORNEY GENERAL TONG HIGHLIGHTS NEW "CLICK TO CANCEL" CONSUMER PROTECTIONS NOW IN EFFECT
(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong today advised consumers that updates to Connecticut’s automatic renewal law took effect July 1, giving Connecticut consumers important
new rights for automatically renewing subscriptions or memberships. These amendments to Connecticut’s existing “click to cancel” statute require covered businesses to provide annual renewal reminders, expand consumers’ cancelation options, and promptly honor
cancelation requests.
“Businesses don’t get to profit by trapping consumers in subscriptions they no longer want. Connecticut is putting consumers back in control with strong new ‘click to cancel’ rights. Businesses that fail to comply may be engaging in unfair trade practices,
and we will not hesitate to enforce the law,” said Attorney General Tong.
“Nearly everything is available as a subscription in 2026, but there is nothing more frustrating than not being able to easily cancel a subscription,” said Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Bryan T. Cafferelli. “If it’s difficult to cancel
– requiring a phone call, or a deep dive internet search – sometimes it’s easier to just give up and continue paying for a subscription you don’t need or want. Companies that make their profits by trapping consumers into difficult-to-cancel subscriptions won’t
be able to get away with that business model any longer in Connecticut, and we’re grateful to the legislature and Attorney General’s office for making this change a priority to protect consumers.”
"This new law was a priority of Senate Democrats because too many Connecticut residents have been caught off guard by unexpected charges on their credit card statements only to realize a subscription renewed without any warning," said Senate Majority Leader
Bob Duff. "With this law now taking effect, those days are over. Companies must be upfront with consumers before charging them, and if someone decides a service no longer fits their needs, canceling should be simple and straightforward. This is a commonsense
protection that puts people back in control of their own finances."
"Connecticut families deserve to know when they're about to be charged and have the ability to cancel if they've changed their mind," said Senator James Maroney, co-chair of the General Law Committee. "With this law taking effect, we're making sure companies
can no longer quietly renew subscriptions without giving consumers a fair heads-up. It also makes it just as easy to cancel as it was to sign up. Whether it's a streaming service or a grocery delivery plan, people have the right to make informed decisions
about what they're spending their money on."
“For too long, corporations have designed deliberate, digital mazes to trap Connecticut residents into recurring payments they don't want. As the federal courts waver on protections, Connecticut is taking a definitive stand. By requiring companies to make cancelling
a subscription just as fast and seamless as signing up, we are eliminating predatory junk fees, restoring basic fairness, and putting hard-earned money back into the pockets of our working families,” said Rep. Roland Lemar, co-chair of the General Law Committee.
“This is a great example of what we can accomplish when we work together across party lines to solve real problems for Connecticut families. Too many people have found themselves paying for subscriptions they no longer use because canceling was intentionally made difficult. These new ‘Click to Cancel’ protections put consumers back in control of their own money by making it just as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up,” said Rep. David Rutigliano, Ranking Member of the General Law Committee. “I was proud to work with my colleagues on the General Law Committee to advance this bipartisan legislation, because every dollar matters, and reducing unnecessary costs is one more way we can help make Connecticut more affordable for everyday residents.”
The law applies to businesses that offer consumer contracts for goods or services that are automatically renewed unless the consumer takes action to cancel. Certain businesses
are exempt, including public utilities and other entities regulated by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Connecticut Insurance Department, banks and credit unions,
and certain national or global audiovisual content providers.
Beginning July 1, covered businesses must:
· Send consumers an annual reminder if their contract automatically renews.
· The reminder must include information about the goods or services covered by the renewal, the frequency and cost of the renewal, and instructions on how to cancel.
· Provide an easy way for consumers to cancel.
· Businesses may no longer require consumers to cancel an automatically renewing contract in person or by mail.
· If the business has an online platform, it must provide a clear online cancelation option or a dedicated email address consumers can use to cancel.
· If the business does not have an online platform, it must provide a phone number that consumers can call to cancel.
· Promptly process cancellation requests without obstructing or delaying consumers.
· If a consumer leaves a voicemail requesting cancelation and provides sufficient information to process the request, the business must cancel the auto renewal within one business day.
Businesses that fail to comply may be engaged in unfair trade practice and are subject to investigation by the Office of the Attorney General and the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection.
Consumers who believe a business has failed to comply with these requirements are encouraged to file a complaint with the Office of the Attorney General or the Connecticut
Department of Consumer Protection.